Loved the Halloween theme for this episode, the ode to classic horror and the creepy music actually worked. Michael was more cliché than usual which detracted some, but overall a fun episode.
5 Reviews
Knightmares
Calicodreamin20 December 2021
Only Halloween Episode
shelbythuylinh19 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Bonnies moves to a new apartment to separate home from work at the foundation. Rowdy party going on and she witnesses while watering her plants a woman being killed.
Is it in her imagination As she tries to get the foundation help but they do think it is real as only Michael believes her and that he will not stop as he would do anything for her.
Will not stop until he can prove she is not imagining.
Is it in her imagination As she tries to get the foundation help but they do think it is real as only Michael believes her and that he will not stop as he would do anything for her.
Will not stop until he can prove she is not imagining.
Frightrider
Fluke_Skywalker25 February 2024
This is one of the more popular and fondly remembered episodes of the series, and it's certainly one of the most unique. The usual Michael and KITT room-a-zoom-zoom stuff is replaced by Halloween hijinks and a Bonnie-centric plot with a VERY on the nose nod to 'Psycho'. The "mystery" is all 'Scooby-Doo' level stuff, but 'Knight Rider' never did pretend to be 'Hill Street Blues'.
Eschewing the series' standard action, stunts and stakes approach, "Halloween Knight" is a fun and refreshing change of pace.
As a funny side note, actor Kurt Paul, who plays the Norman Bates-like Norman Baines here, apparently made a living off of his resemblance to Anthony Perkins. Aside from "Halloween Knight", he appeared in the 1987 made-for-TV movie "Bates Motel", the 80's TV series "Sledge Hammer!" as Norman Blates, and he's listed in "Psycho II" and "Psycho III" as "Stunts" (Presumably as a stand-in for Anthony Perkins). Oddly he appears in "Psycho IV", but as character named Raymond Linette.
Eschewing the series' standard action, stunts and stakes approach, "Halloween Knight" is a fun and refreshing change of pace.
As a funny side note, actor Kurt Paul, who plays the Norman Bates-like Norman Baines here, apparently made a living off of his resemblance to Anthony Perkins. Aside from "Halloween Knight", he appeared in the 1987 made-for-TV movie "Bates Motel", the 80's TV series "Sledge Hammer!" as Norman Blates, and he's listed in "Psycho II" and "Psycho III" as "Stunts" (Presumably as a stand-in for Anthony Perkins). Oddly he appears in "Psycho IV", but as character named Raymond Linette.
One of my favourites
coltras3515 September 2021
One of my favourite Knight Rider episodes which is different from the average story - Knight chasing hoodlums and general bad guys - and this time he has to help Bonnie figure out whether she's seeing hallucinations or not. She had witnessed a murder by a man in a gorilla suit. Plenty of sleuthing, inventive ideas and good atmosphere follows suit in an offbeat story that nods at Hitchcock's Psycho.
Boo!
Mr-Fusion2 April 2017
A completely offbeat Halloween episode, to be sure, this opens with a curious promise that the latter half doesn't quite match. A gorilla suit, a murder, and Bonnie searing it really happened, the case puts Michael's sleuthing skills to work. The solution to the crime rests with some technological trickery (surely futuristic for '84) and culminates in a loving "Psycho" homage. After that, it's your standard K.I.T.T. car chase, one good stunt and the bad guy goes down. It felt like the second half, which really embraces the holiday, skewed way too far into silly.
6/10
6/10
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