tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post5185858372186506529..comments2024-03-22T14:34:39.101-04:00Comments on MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema: Wendigo Meets THE NIGHT STALKER (1972)Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-47073367495917326892017-12-30T14:23:33.301-05:002017-12-30T14:23:33.301-05:00What makes this such a vividly memorable film for ...What makes this such a vividly memorable film for me is that, in addition to the folkloric quality of this vampire, <i>The Night Stalker</i> seems to be the first vampire movie done almost as a police procedural... how WOULD the legal, governmental, and journalistic authorities react in a modern, transient, mid-20th century small city if a these sorts of murders began to occur?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-48382794729482436782009-12-31T08:04:02.433-05:002009-12-31T08:04:02.433-05:00This is a terrific little film, worthy of the big ...This is a terrific little film, worthy of the big screen. Interesting enough in the late 1960's and 1970's there were quite a few Made for TV movies that were of superior quality, the most obvious example is Spielberg's "Duel." Other ecellent ones include "My Sweet Charlie", "Brian's Song" and "Born Innocent."Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01808503055317962289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-39790601988160201622009-12-29T07:19:28.578-05:002009-12-29T07:19:28.578-05:00They really should have quit after this one. The N...They really should have quit after this one. <em>The Night Stalker</em> is a terrific little movie. The follow-up movie is reasonably good, and the TV series was OK at best. All the really good ideas they had got used up in the first TV movie. But it stands as a true classic, and Darren McGavin's finest moment.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9149411832127844385.post-40902922743977340202009-12-28T09:23:30.848-05:002009-12-28T09:23:30.848-05:00One thing you're forgetting, Sammy. Tony Vince...One thing you're forgetting, Sammy. Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) is Kolchak's boss, and would be part of the Night Stalker series, as the only other regular character.<br /><br />Come to think of it, don't you & Wendigo think the original Stalker series could've fared better if it wasn't set in Chicago (where Kolchak & Vincenzo ended up after the Night Strangler movie)?hobbyfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08089664500077967952noreply@blogger.com