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I wonder if this is why Kolchak usually begins by talking into a tape recorder

throb9 1 month ago

@throb9 - The Night Stalker pilot film (1971) actually came out 2 years before this failed TV pilot which follows the same path. Occult horror and demonology was the hot trend in the early 70s in films and TV shows.

jlovebirch 1 month ago

the visual sharpness of the film is quite good for 1973

SGCSW 1 month ago

I knew it thr devil is a wrestler from the WWE

BlackAdam1231 2 months ago

70´s Horror rocks!

TheTHX11384eb 2 months ago

so you blew the zombie away with a shotgun but later bring no weapon when pulling the ring off his finger? hahaha...

ab9957 3 months ago

never ever ever return as a zombie. i'd rather be dead and done with.

chatnoir77777777777 4 months ago

Wonderful, atmospheric '70's TV classic ! I loved the late Hurd Hatfield of Doran Gray fame as the creepy art dealer.

TheAolele 5 months ago

I think the first time I saw this was about 1977 or so and it scared the hell outta me. Still made me jump a few times. Great movie!!

cougargw 5 months ago

Kolchak was the shcit. This seems like a spin-off

ManOfWealthnTaste 6 months ago

should just brought a pair of clippers

omniexistus 6 months ago

They should do a new one and call it the Norliss chronicles the actor looks different than when he was in the Invaders

ninelivecat 7 months ago

Does anyone else get the feeling that David was falling for Ellen?

praguephotog 7 months ago

wow! awesome movie, i mean tv movie. i can't believe it was not picked up for a series. at least night stalker was further developed. thanks for loading this.

gremlinfrog1 10 months ago 4

thank you to the uploader!

66caterpillar 1 year ago

@RandomConcepts -- The inconclusive ending is because this was a pilot for a proposed series. The tapes seem to be the gimmick for starting each episode off. Pretty much a reworking of The Night Stalker. In the early '70s there was a pop culture craze for occultism and supernatural horror. Even Gene Roddenberry launched a failed series pilot "Spectre" with Robert Culp as a demon hunter.

jlovebirch 1 year ago 7

@jlovebirch I remember this time frame from when I was a kid. We used to watch Dark Shadows when we came home from school from about 69 to 71, and we would beg to be allowed to stay up long enough to watch Kolchak.

DandAinTac 6 months ago

Great old movie. All these films owe a lot the the Curse of the Demon 1958-maybe the first reality based horror film.

cheerok16 1 year ago

The plots to this movie, Curse of the Black Widow, and the Nightstalker are all identical

BlackAdam1231 1 year ago

I thoroughly enjoyed that. Made at the height of the California Gothic movement, this one had it all; hardboiled-sounding detective, beautiful youngish widow in a virtual modern castle, tunnels leading to a family crypt and outbuilding. The blood clay idea seemed somehow attached at the end, it sucked how Angie Dickinson abandoned the black chick to die, and HOW the dead husband and the antique girl learned of the magic is never really explained...but all in all I'd give it a 7/10.

CVForty3 1 year ago 2

That movie was a big memory for a lot of folks.

Thanks for posting ;)

AstralPixie 1 year ago

Remember seeing this as a wee girl and being terrified by the 'ripping-off-car-door' scene: but I was too young to remember the title so great to rediscover it. Better than the overrated Night Stalker, I thought: more complex story, better cast (Hurd 'Dorian Gray' Hadfield, haunted Roy Thinnes and cuter-than-cute Angie Dickinson). And Curtis's direction more visualy confident here surely.

katmaccobb 1 year ago 3