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This was a second pilot for a television series that aired after this movie was shown. A year earlier, another pilot, "The Night Stalker," was shown but this one actually kicked off the series, called "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," which ran only two years. It seemed to be popular so I don't know why it didn't last longer.
At 90 minutes, "Strangler" was longer than the first pilot but very similar in plot. The only major change was in the locale. Here, our intrepid reporter-hero "Carl Kolchak" (Darren McGavin) is hunting down a serial-killer werewolf in Seattle instead of Las Vegas.
Kolchak has the same common opponents, meaning his newspaper boss "Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) and a hostile police chief (played by Scott Brady). Along the way you get to see a bevy of beauties including Jo Ann Pflug and Nina Wayne. You also have brief appearances by famous actors John Carradine, Margaret Hamilton, Al Lewis and Wally Cox.
The story will keep your interest and has good suspense at the end. The only annoying part - at least for me - is the overdone yelling between McGavin and Oakland, and McGavin and Brady. Every single time - every time - that pairing is on screen it is nothing but a shouting match. Other than that, it's very good.
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I first saw The Night Stalker at the ripe old age of 6 years old. It scared the bejesus out of me! I only survived the evening because Marcus Welby came on after and got my mind off of it for a little while. Then 2 years later I stumbled onto the Night Strangler and I watched a little before I ran away from the tube shaking. Years later as an adult I was able to borrow a video collecters copy of the Night Stalker and I loved it! Same thing with the Strangler. So I bought the DVD double feature and it really is great. The featurettes with producer/director Dan Curtis are informative and entertaining. So if you remember them as good movies,they still very much are.
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This is a must have for any B movie buff or cheeze grade connesuier. I love Karl Kolchak and watching this collection brought back all of my fond childhood memories of watching these episode behind my dad's chair on CBS late night. This show while very formulatic, works wholly do to Darrenn McGavin' portrayal of Kolchak. And while today's generation will find it hooky and outdated, they would do well to remember, that ther would probably be no X Files or Supernatural if it were not for this series.
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This movie duo asks the question, "What if?!" and does it in a way that will please any supernatural genre lover. It did and still does deliver what TV was supposed to do; allow us a needed escape from "reality" for a while.
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I remember sitting in the dark by myself with a blanket around me watching this movie on a saturday evening and being scared crapless.
Even now as a 44 year old adult, I still have a dream at least once a year
that Janos Skorzeny is coming at me growling like he did at Kolchak when he opened that closet door.
Darn you Barry Atwater... I need my blanket now !!
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