A veteran newspaper publisher (Don Porter) listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, (Roy Thinnes) . Through some twisted murders, he ends up investigating weird happenings , many of which involve supernatural forces that lead him to believe a modern-day vampire is stalking Carmel and San Francisco , California . Norliss turned his investigative skills to vampires , but he finds out that the stories weren't products of his own overworked imagination . The tapes tell the story of a bizarre investigation, involving a recent widow (Angie Dickinson) whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio . As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead . Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality! . One man's quest who has disappeared during an investigationto uncover the truth. A vampire killer loose in Carmel . It's hard to believe, isn't it? . A real horror story. Television's Greatest Chiller Movie Becomes a Weekly Series! Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
Chilling and thrilling flick about a modern-day vampire stalking the streets of San Francisco from a story by Fred Mustard Stewart and script by William F. Nolan . This teleplay is suspenseful, intriguing and tight ; being competently directed in limited budget . This TV movie maybe the pilot film for a failed TV series , it contains thrills, chills, ghastly events and being quite entertaining. Dan Curtis's creepy film gets a spin on modern-vampires sagas with original results. The requisite scary proceedings appear including a suspicious wife, a violent bloodsucker who'll stop at nothing to get het his doses of blood , a scary demon and several others happenings . While it may not be as overtly chilling as other devils or vampires tales , this story displays some shudders that gets under your skin . This The Norliss Tapes bears remarkable resemblance to The Night Stalker by Dan Curtis , it finds reporter Carl Kolchak : Darren McGavin investigating a series of sinister murders . Here a similar role is played by Roy Thinnes , he is nice as the intrepid writer on the bloodsucker's trail . Main and support cast are pretty good. Thinnes's career developed specially for TV , standing out in The Invaders series (1967) , and Norliiss Tapes (1973) where plays an investigative reporter who stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay . He's finely accompanied by a good cast giving adequate interpretations , such as : Angie Dickinson, Don Porter , Claude Akins, Michele Carey , Vonetta McGee, Bryan O'Byrne, Hurd Hatfield, among others .
It contains an atmospheric and colorful cinematography by cameraman Ben Colman , shot on location in Camel , San Francisco , California , though mostly filmed in studio : Universal Studios , Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California. As well as suspenseful and frightening musical score by Robert Cobet. The motion picture was nicely realized by Dan Curtis . He was a writer, producer and director of TV series , working from the 60s . Curtis was a specialist in terror genre as proved in ¨Dark shadows¨ about vampire Barnabas Collins , ¨Trilogy of terror¨, ¨Night Stalker¨, or ¨Scream of wolf¨ and successful wartime series as ¨Winds of war¨ and ¨War and remembrance¨. His most successful series was about the reporter ¨Kolchak¨in which he becomes involved with a trouble magnet for situations involving the supernatural beings as werewolves , vampires , zombies and all manner of legendary creatures, the series was the inspiration for The X - Files . The Norliss Tapes (1973) rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable terror film. Well worth watching for horror fans.
Chilling and thrilling flick about a modern-day vampire stalking the streets of San Francisco from a story by Fred Mustard Stewart and script by William F. Nolan . This teleplay is suspenseful, intriguing and tight ; being competently directed in limited budget . This TV movie maybe the pilot film for a failed TV series , it contains thrills, chills, ghastly events and being quite entertaining. Dan Curtis's creepy film gets a spin on modern-vampires sagas with original results. The requisite scary proceedings appear including a suspicious wife, a violent bloodsucker who'll stop at nothing to get het his doses of blood , a scary demon and several others happenings . While it may not be as overtly chilling as other devils or vampires tales , this story displays some shudders that gets under your skin . This The Norliss Tapes bears remarkable resemblance to The Night Stalker by Dan Curtis , it finds reporter Carl Kolchak : Darren McGavin investigating a series of sinister murders . Here a similar role is played by Roy Thinnes , he is nice as the intrepid writer on the bloodsucker's trail . Main and support cast are pretty good. Thinnes's career developed specially for TV , standing out in The Invaders series (1967) , and Norliiss Tapes (1973) where plays an investigative reporter who stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay . He's finely accompanied by a good cast giving adequate interpretations , such as : Angie Dickinson, Don Porter , Claude Akins, Michele Carey , Vonetta McGee, Bryan O'Byrne, Hurd Hatfield, among others .
It contains an atmospheric and colorful cinematography by cameraman Ben Colman , shot on location in Camel , San Francisco , California , though mostly filmed in studio : Universal Studios , Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California. As well as suspenseful and frightening musical score by Robert Cobet. The motion picture was nicely realized by Dan Curtis . He was a writer, producer and director of TV series , working from the 60s . Curtis was a specialist in terror genre as proved in ¨Dark shadows¨ about vampire Barnabas Collins , ¨Trilogy of terror¨, ¨Night Stalker¨, or ¨Scream of wolf¨ and successful wartime series as ¨Winds of war¨ and ¨War and remembrance¨. His most successful series was about the reporter ¨Kolchak¨in which he becomes involved with a trouble magnet for situations involving the supernatural beings as werewolves , vampires , zombies and all manner of legendary creatures, the series was the inspiration for The X - Files . The Norliss Tapes (1973) rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable terror film. Well worth watching for horror fans.