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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- Premios
- 2 premios ganados y 1 nominación
Irene Cagen
- Shelley Forbes
- (sin créditos)
Rudy Doucette
- Reporter
- (sin créditos)
Patty Elder
- Cheryl Hughes
- (sin créditos)
Edward Faulkner
- Las Vegas Policeman
- (sin créditos)
Sig Frohlich
- Reporter
- (sin créditos)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Richard Matheson
- Jeffrey Grant Rice
- Max Hodge(sin créditos)
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Argumento
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaThe original script by Richard Matheson called for Carl Kolchak to be dressed in Bermuda shorts and wearing an Aloha shirt. Actor Darren McGavin said, "That doesn't sound like anyone I know," and elected to use a different wardrobe. While reading up on the character, McGavin noted that Kolchak had been fired from a New York newspaper years before, and thought, "That's it! He hasn't bought a new suit since!" So, Kolchak appeared in a circa 1950s suit.
- ErroresAt the construction site where the girl's body is found, Kolchak's car can be seen in the distant background, ready for the "cue" to come roaring forward. When he gets there, you can see the previous tire tracks where the scene has been rehearsed.
- Citas
Carl Kolchak: This nut thinks he's a vampire!
- ConexionesFeatured in Trilogía del terror (1975)
Opinión destacada
Still Great after 30-Plus Years
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. It had a great plot, good characters ... a reluctant hero and one of the best TV movie villains ever. Of course, you have to have a good villain to make a story work and Janos Skorzeny certainly fits the bill. And Barry Atwater plays Skorzeny with the perfect amount of venom and snarl, not going way over the top, which would have been easy to do.
Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak was also a role he was born to play. The rumpled suit, the trademark straw hat (which he incidentally wore along with a tuxedo to a Dean Martin celebrity roast!), the almost Columbo-like dogged questioning and pursuit. His "High Noon" showdown with Skorzeny was as good as it gets .... no one else was willing or able to take down the bad guy so the character least likely to do it reluctantly decides to save the city from a maniac.
The characters who worked for Las Vegas law enforcement were more interested in protecting their backsides and practicing CYA after being made to look foolish and incompetent by a reporter willing to consider something beyond their imagination. By sending the only people who knew the truth - Kolchak, his girlfriend and his editor, Tony Vincenzo - either out of town or threatening them into silence, the cover-up of the truth was completed.
Persistent rumors exist that there are plans to remake this into a big screen movie .... I hope not, I am having problems imagining contemporary actors who could play these roles better than the original cast.
Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak was also a role he was born to play. The rumpled suit, the trademark straw hat (which he incidentally wore along with a tuxedo to a Dean Martin celebrity roast!), the almost Columbo-like dogged questioning and pursuit. His "High Noon" showdown with Skorzeny was as good as it gets .... no one else was willing or able to take down the bad guy so the character least likely to do it reluctantly decides to save the city from a maniac.
The characters who worked for Las Vegas law enforcement were more interested in protecting their backsides and practicing CYA after being made to look foolish and incompetent by a reporter willing to consider something beyond their imagination. By sending the only people who knew the truth - Kolchak, his girlfriend and his editor, Tony Vincenzo - either out of town or threatening them into silence, the cover-up of the truth was completed.
Persistent rumors exist that there are plans to remake this into a big screen movie .... I hope not, I am having problems imagining contemporary actors who could play these roles better than the original cast.
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- peter0901
- 24 mar 2003
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- Presupuesto
- USD 450,000 (estimado)
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 14 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.33 : 1
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