The Night Stalker Page #2

Synopsis: Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story of his life. But will the local sheriff, or the D.A., or even his own boss, let him print it? He has an ally in the FBI agent brought in to investigate this strange case. It seems someone is biting the necks of young girls and draining their blood. Can this killer with supernormal powers really be a 70-year-old Rumanian millionaire? Can he really be a vampire? And can an aging reporter do anything to stop him?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
1972
74 min
1,772 Views


- Oh enough, Kolchak!

I expect you to report. Not

to come up with fairytales!

...and Kolchak...

Quit bugging the P.D. If something

turns up, they'll let us know.

Meanwhile, use your head and lay off.

Whatever they're up to, they don't want

any help from amateur bloodhounds like you.

Friday, May 21st, 8:06 am.

Apartment of Carol Hanichek:

Swing-shift cocktail waitress in

the Bird of Paradise Show Lounge.

She'd gotten home around 2:15 am...

...poured herself a glass of milk,

opened the back door of the kitchen,

...and died... like the others.

Suddenly, quietly. Without disturbing her

sleeping roommate... only a few feet away.

Something of a pattern

had started to form...

...and it was ugly.

It was then that people stopped talking.

Does that surprise you?

Look Carl:
You're not the only

one that likes to play detective.

The Police, the Sheriff's boys

...they all think they're pretty good.

...and they don't need you.

You know you really make me feel wanted.

We've had three murders in town, Bernie. We

have one tremendously strong guy-maybe more,

who goes around killing young girls...

...and they all lost a lot of blood!

Hey you weren't supposed

to know about that.

...I wasn't supposed

to know about that...

But I know it.

What about your people

down at the bureau?

No. This is nothing for the

Bureau to mess with at this stage.

Yeah? Well you could make some

unofficial inquiries for me?

Like?

Well like... you could check around

the country and check all the hospitals,

...and see if any of them had

corpses recently, like ours, you know?

All with a big loss of blood.

You could check all the insane asylums

across the country. The Bug Houses...

See if they've released, recently,

a nut who thinks he's Count Dracula...

...even if he's done

nothing to prove it.

Do you believe in vampires, little boy?

That's funny. That's very funny.

That's very funny, Bernie. Ha Ha.

Well are ya gonna do it? Or are you gonna sit

there like a cheap gonif, guzzling my beer?

I'll think about it. Okay?

Meanwhile, I hope it doesn't disillusion you to know that

the local Law enforcement people go along with your views.

- Oh?

- Somewhat.

At this moment, they're waiting for a special report from the

Coroner, and two pathology experts who were flown up from LAPD.

- Oh yeah?

- Along with a small truckload of equipment.

Huh? Oh hi, Marylin. How are ya?

- Hey. I like your luncheon place.

- Yeah.

Say, if you want to hear that special report,

meet me at the Sheriff's office. It starts at 6:30.

- Hey thanks.

- Don't thank me. Just be there.

Where ya goin?

Mr. Kolchak. Telephone,

please. Mr. Kolchak.

Carl Kolchak. Telephone

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror vampire novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, as well as the movie Somewhere In Time for which Matheson wrote the screenplay, based on his novel Bid Time Return. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Seven more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures — The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels — Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace (Icy Breasts), based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. more…

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