The Night Stalker Page #4

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
1,802 Views


rip out his victims' throats...

Now we are NOT gonna

jump to any conclusions...

...about who or what killed these women.

It is possible, you know, to type

a person's blood from his saliva.

If I were you gentleman, I'd look

for... a very anemic fellow,

...possibly with some

rare blood disease.

Well I don't care what kind

of a nut killed these women.

But I'll tell ya this: He's out there.

And I'll bet he's high on

pot... or the hard stuff.

And he's gonna kill

again unless he's stopped.

Masterson:
What have your people

got on this Parkway blood theft?

Well the latest is the nurse said she saw

something "funny" out there last night.

...or early this morning.

It seems that a tall, skinny

guy, dressed as an orderly...

...was nosing around the

refrigerated storage area.

That's where they keep

the blood and the plasma.

She didn't think much of it then, but

later when she spoke about the guy to the...

...to the floor Super,

she was told that...

...there was no such tall,

skinny guy on duty there.

Description's as follows:

White male adult

6' 2"to 6' 4"

Thin. About 175 pounds

with pale complexion.

Dark hair.

So we start lookin' for a man...

Iocal resident or worse yet...

...some outsider who may not

even still be in the area.

We'll check the airport, the

bus terminal, railroad station,

...blockade the highways... and

if we're lucky, we'll get him.

...if he's stupid enough to still

be hangin' around after 3 crimes.

Now you got any other suggestions?

Just do it.

Alright. Let's break this

up. Thank you Dr. Mah-

uh... thank you Doctor.

Mr. Paine?

I shouldn't be too inclined to reject Mr.

Kolchak's theory out of hand, if I were you.

It is at best highly speculative...

but not altogether unwarranted.

Kolchak!

You can throw away that cassette.

Now this, uh "vampire stuff"...

is to STAY right in this room.

Until we have the assailant in custody,

we say nothing about these, uh...

...women being drained of blood.

There'll be no rumors,

no reports in the paper...

The official opinion at this time is

that the cause of death is "undetermined".

We don't want to cause a panic.

It's bad for police operations.

It's bad for the people.

And it's bad for business...

Thank you for your cooperation.

Kolchak? I want to have a talk with you.

Now boys, there's no reason

to bother the doctor anymore.

I have a prepared

statement in my office.

You can go back to the lab.

Kolchak, you're becoming a real pest.

I'll have to have a word or

two with Vincenzo about you.

Ya know, maybe one of the other boys at

the office should handle this from here on.

Keep your nose clean, son. Stay

out of other people's business.

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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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