The Night Strangler
The Night Strangler

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Reporter Carl Kolchak is now in Seattle, Washington, trying to solve the mystery of several strangulations that recur every few years where the victims are drained of blood in this second made for TV pilot.... (Full plot summary below)

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Reporter Carl Kolchak is now in Seattle, Washington, trying to solve the mystery of several strangulations that recur every few years where the victims are drained of blood in this second made for TV pilot.

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User Review - 10/10 by Brett BA excellent sequel to the thriller "The Night Stalker," which stands as one of the highest rated made-for-TV films ever made. Darren McGavin reprises his newspaper reporter role of Carl Kolchak, in a superb performance. This time tracking a story in Seattle, Washington, where a mysterious nocturnal strangler has been murdering young women, and removing small amounts of blood from the top of there skulls. Good creepy fun, with good supporting performances from Richard Anderson, John Carradine, Wally Cox, and Margaret Hamilton.
User Review - 10/10 by Colin FVery creepy follow-up to THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) TVM.
User Review - 8/10 by Trey LDarren McGavin is once again perfect as antagonistic reporter Carl Kolchak. The pacing and story aren't quite as good as Night Stalker, and there are many moments of deja vu, but it is a solid thriller with a great supporting cast.
User Review - 8/10 by Kody ZGreat sequel to the first Night Stalker movie.
User Review - 8/10 by Shaun BThere has been a lot of hype about the new "Night Stalker" television series. I watched the first couple of episodes, and I don't think that it holds a candle to the real thing--the two original made-for-television movies from the early 70s. Heck, the original "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" series was better. [b]The Night Stalker[/b] Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, and Carol Lynley Director: John Llewellyn Moxey When a bizarre series of murders hit Las Vegas, down-and-out crimebeat report Carl Kolchak thinks he might have found his ticket back to the Big Time newspaper business. As he pursues leads, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the murderer is a vampire. Met with disbelief and scoffing from his editors and a desire to cover up the murders from Las Vegas police officials, Carl goes from crusading reporter to crusading vampire hunter. "The Night Stalker" is an excellent movie, easily equal to many big-budget theatrical releases despite its humble television origins. The dialogue is snappy, the script and characters are all believable and well-crafted, and the mix of humor and suspense is perfectly balanced throughout. McGavin gives a fabulous performance as Kolchak, going from a wise-cracking beat reporter (coming across almost as having been transported from the 1930s to the 1970s, yet never seeming out of place) with no goal other than to rehabilite his career, to a man who is willing to risk everything to stop a monster that no one but he seems willing to take on. The supporting cast is also universally excellent, as is the camera work. The only complaint I have is the score. It is downright annoying in its innapropriateness at times. [b]The Night Strangler[/b] Starring: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, and Simon Oakland Director: Dan Curtis This is another excellent adventure in humor and supernatural suspense, so well-crafted that you'd never imagine that it was originally a TV movie. Darren McGavin gives another excellent preformance as Kolchac, who, after losing everything but his life as a result of the events in "The Night Stalker", has drifted westward to Seattle. He gets himself hired on with the city's top paper after promising to not make waves... but when he starts covering another series of violent crimes, a disturbing pattern emerges: Every 21 years since the mid-1800s, there have been a series of identical strangulation murders and what few eye witnesses there were have described the same killer. Kolchac again finds himself in the awful position of uncovering a truth that no-one wants to face or deal with. Once again, he is the only one able and willing to take action and stop the deaths. "The Night Strangler" is one of those rare sequels that is actually better than the original. The dialogue and wit is sharper, McGavin's performace of Kolchac is even better than before, and the suspense in the story gives way to downright scary on several occasions.
User Review - 6/10 by bill sAfter being chased out of Las Vegas as part of covering up their vampire problem, sequel to the classic Night Stalker has Carl Kolchak now in Seattle and coming up against a serial killer who is part Jekyll/ Hyde and part Dorian Gray. Kolchak's investigation leads him to a doctor (The Six Million Dollar Man's boss, Richard Anderson) who resurfaces every 21 years to murder victims for a serum that keeps him alive and young. As with the previous entry, Kolchak is the only one who believes there is something supernatural going on and the only one who figures out how to stop it. For a sequel, it's not bad and pretty entertaining in it's own right. Directed by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows,Trilogy Of Terror) and again written by legendary genre writer Richard Matheson (Twilight Zone, The Night Stalker and Spielberg's Duel), the film has it's share of spooky moments and suspenseful chases as Kolchak once again finds himself alone and trying to stop the fiend before his serum is complete and he goes back into hiding. The formula didn't start to wear thin till the often silly weekly series that struggled to keep coming up with supernatural opponents for the intrepid reporter. They probably should have stuck with an annual TV movie instead. Strangler also features Simon Oakland returning as Venchenzo and an adorable and fiesty Jo Ann Pflug as a belly dancer with a soft spot for McGavin's hard nosed reporter. Also stars legendary actors, John Carradine, Margaret Hamilton and "Grandpa" AL Lewis. 6.5/10
User Review - 6/10 by Shawn-Ray MKind of OK sequel to The Night Stalker. Funny just to see Steve Austin's pal as the villian.

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