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FanOfHorror	An interesting read on The Night Stalker	Lead	[-]
Oct 25 09 10:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	From the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/10/honored-horror-the-night-stalker.html I also enjoyed The Night Strangler the following year.
TheAmazingLarry		#1	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for the link, Fan. And from the LA Times, too! Cool! It's always nice to see continued props for this movie, which I still consider to be The Perfect Made-For-TV Movie, and one of the best vampire movies ever. Only thing that keeps it from being all-caps PERFECT is the too-obvious stunt double for Barry Atwater, but hey, I turn a blind eye... But no blind eye will be turned regarding the writer of the piece saying there were only thirteen episodes of the KOLCHAK series when there were twenty.
luisj40		#2	[-]
Oct 26 09 1:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TheAmazingLarry wrote: But no blind eye will be turned regarding the writer of the piece saying there were only thirteen episodes of the KOLCHAK series when there were twenty. Shoddy Journalism! Luis
Rakshasa		#3	[-]
Oct 26 09 3:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	luisj40 wrote: TheAmazingLarry wrote: But no blind eye will be turned regarding the writer of the piece saying there were only thirteen episodes of the KOLCHAK series when there were twenty. Shoddy Journalism! Doesn't that writer know that the LA Times is a NEWWWWWS paper and that they are supposed to report the NEWWWWWWWWS?! Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
amarok		#4	[-]
Oct 26 09 8:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The sort of yellow journalism you'd expect in a second rate metropolis!
FanOfHorror		#5	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Why do you say that ? What do you read ? amarok wrote: The sort of yellow journalism you'd expect in a second rate metropolis!
amarok		#6	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just yanking a line from The Night Stalker (or was it Night Strangler?) and applying it unfairly to this LA Times article. Just forgot the smilie Smilies fix everything.
FanOfHorror		#7	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And while there are many things to like about this film & the Night Strangler, fact is, there is a city underneath a city in an area of Seattle. Seems that in the late 19th century, a fire razed a rather large area of the city & they decided to build that part of the city up a few stories.. Then the undergorund became a haven for gambling, drugs & drink, etc.. & much of it was closed off cocmpletely in early 20th century. But there are apparently still "safe" areas underneath . It would be interesting to investigate it! Not sure of Paris, but believe they too have a city underneath. TheAmazingLarry wrote: Thanks for the link, Fan. And from the LA Times, too! Cool! It's always nice to see continued props for this movie, which I still consider to be The Perfect Made-For-TV Movie, and one of the best vampire movies ever. Only thing that keeps it from being all-caps PERFECT is the too-obvious stunt double for Barry Atwater, but hey, I turn a blind eye... But no blind eye will be turned regarding the writer of the piece saying there were only thirteen episodes of the KOLCHAK series when there were twenty.
FanOfHorror		#8	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks as I just didn't understand! amarok wrote: Just yanking a line from The Night Stalker (or was it Night Strangler?) and applying it unfairly to this LA Times article. Just forgot the smilie Smilies fix everything.
FanOfHorror		#9	[-]
Oct 26 09 10:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	you guys & gals are amazing w/ your recall of all things horror - I can watch it yesterday & still not recall ! amarok wrote: Just yanking a line from The Night Stalker (or was it Night Strangler?) and applying it unfairly to this LA Times article. Just forgot the smilie Smilies fix everything.
Rakshasa		#10	[-]
Oct 27 09 8:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just to avoid any confusion, my post above is also dialog from The Night Stalker. Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
amarok		#11	[-]
Oct 27 09 10:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When I was a lad in the '70s, I recorded tons of things off TV (including STALKER and STRANGLER) onto cassette tapes (there being no video machines yet -- what am I saying? Didn't get my first VHS machine 'til '98!). Playing those tapes over and over burned some of the dialog and music permanently into my brain! This made for strange bedfellows, sound wise, as I would add whatever sounded interesting to any tape available. One of my favorite cassettes had the last couple of minutes of THE GREAT ESCAPE (the music and the sound of Steve McQueen's baseball hitting the wall), some tense music from MURDER, SHE SAID, the attack on Fort Knox from the GOLDFINGER LP played at 45 rpm instead of 33 1/3 (rather exciting, pumped up like that,) that brief bit from MONKEY BUSINESS when all four Marx Brothers grab up instruments and play an insane melody, and Lord knows what else.
FanOfHorror		#12	[-]
Oct 31 09 12:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for sharing that amarok as I found it very interesting!
JerWolf		#13	[-]
Nov 6 09 11:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This was my favorite show when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I caught the original movie and never forgot it. I had forgotten many of the shows until read these posts. Now all I need to do is order the movies and the complete set. McGavin was always one of my favorite actors, based soley on his portrayal of Kolchak. Great thread and Stalker links. Thanks. myspace profile Last Edited By: JerWolf Nov 7 09 11:05 PM. Edited 1 times.
The Troubador		#14	[-]
Apr 27 10 11:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	amarok wrote: When I was a lad in the '70s, I recorded tons of things off TV (including STALKER and STRANGLER) onto cassette tapes (there being no video machines yet -- what am I saying? Didn't get my first VHS machine 'til '98!). Playing those tapes over and over burned some of the dialog and music permanently into my brain! This made for strange bedfellows, sound wise, as I would add whatever sounded interesting to any tape available. One of my favorite cassettes had the last couple of minutes of THE GREAT ESCAPE (the music and the sound of Steve McQueen's baseball hitting the wall) You and I must be long lost siblings. I recorded lots of stuff on cassette in the 70's, including the entire movie of "The Great Escape"! I think what got me started was recording episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and that bled over into recording movies. Had the classic Universal and Hammer movies. I mostly listened to them when falling asleep at night. To this day I always go to sleep listening to some sort of spoken word media.

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An interesting read on The Night Stalker

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