![]() In fact, I can't think of one that worked, though I still think reunions could have been done if "Fans" had taken over and the producers backed off. There are many TV reunions that I wish had happened, or that I wish had been done right. What's startling to me, at 46, is to watch this movie, like I just did again, and think how it was over FORTY years ago, and most of it's stars are passed on, and anyone in background scenes is either old or dead.including the bikini clad ladies at the pool. Today, it would either be a CGI vampire, or a pretty boy. But, I love it, right down to the perfect choice of Atwater as the vampire. And, though creepy, it doesn't leave you emotionally scarred like modern horror movies. Sure, you can tell when it's a stuntman (not on our old B&W TV,though) and there's no gore or digital garbage. That TV movie is the best vampire movie ever made, to me, as it all seems real. Because for years, I was certain there was a missing scene of the vampire speaking Kolchak's name.Īnyway, I digress. ![]() In fact, I'm convinced that one of the spots had Oakland's saying "Kolchak", in his usual frustrated way, while they showed atwater as the vampire. I have an uncanny memory, and still recall the TV commercials advertising the original movie. At 46, I will tell you that somebody in my family must have had the original TV movie on, in '71, as I was aware of it early on. I just stumbled across this site while surfing the net for trivia on The Night Stalker and any of it's stars. ![]() Richard Matheson lets us in on some of these secrets but he does so subtly. The house is always a castle and the vampire always wears the same clothes, those he was buried in. We don't question them because we just want to be frightened. But even if Skorzeny could turn into a bat, or a wolf, how would he carry all those bottles of blood around? With little bat-wing-fingers? How does a vampire dress himself? Does he keep a clean house (not in this case)? How does he buy that station wagon and buy that creepy house? These things, in other movies, are just a given. The guy's got to get around and, ostensibly, Matheson's not buying into the "man into bat" transformation or, rather, he just doesn't address it. A vampire with a station wagon sounds like a goofy idea (why not a hearse, right?) but think about it. Sure, we've seen dozens of the "one guy knows about a monster but no one will believe him" but that's not really a point labored here. What I loved about this film is that it looks sideways at the vampire mythos. Akins and Oakland were fast running out of ways to say "Kolchak, get out of here" but that's a nit.
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