1972 · vampire · tv-horror · cult
The Night Stalker
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey1h 14m1972
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Our read: The Night Stalker (1972) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive vampire · tv-horror · cult entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured vampire / tv-horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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