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Oct 1, 2014 · Pilot: Directed by Liz Friedlander. With Dylan McDermott, Maggie Q, Mariana Klaveno, Victor Rasuk. Beth and Jack search for a stalker with an affinity for fire; Beth meets with an exasperated college student, who claims his former roommate is aggressively harassing him.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Liz Friedlander
- 2014-10-01
The Night Stalker: Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker. An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- (7.5K)
- Horror, Mystery
- John Llewellyn Moxey
- 1972-01-11
The Night Stalker is an American made for television horror film [2] which aired on ABC on January 11, 1972, as their ABC Movie of the Week. In the film, an investigative reporter, played by Darren McGavin, comes to suspect that a serial killer in the Las Vegas area is actually a vampire.
- Who stalks the stalkers?
- Verdict
By Matt Fowler
Posted: Oct 1, 2014 1:08 pm
Debuting Wednesday night, CBS' new procedural Stalker, from stab-meister Kevin Williamson (Scream, The Following), comes with a lot of critical pre-resentment, much like Williamson's series The Following did - Taken to task, before its premiere, for its depictions of violence. Critiques that will essentially die down, as they did with The Following, once everyone realizes that too much time and energy is being spent haranguing a middle-of-the-road TV series - one far from ever being considered part of this "Golden Age of Television." Stalker, in a sense, will just be on TV. For people to watch after Criminal Minds. No more, no less.
Maggie Q on What Drew Her to Stalker
In fact, deciding what levels, portrayals, and conveyances of violence is suitable for a disposable procedural -- where the case itself is the main star -- seems like an exercise for the already-angry, especially if it's an objection that'll be dropped as soon as the show premieres to likely-decent numbers (it's on CBS) and continues on, anonymously, for a few years. The thing that stands out the most about Stalker however -- a show that follows the exploits of LA's TAU (Threat Assessment Unit) -- is that the brutal stalker scenarios, at least in this premiere, are played out like a "make you jump" slasher flick. Whereas on most other gruesome procedurals, including those where the majority of the crimes are perpetrated against women (like an SVU), the bad stuff happens off-screen. I suppose, however, that it would be hard to do a show about stalking without showing some elements of the stalking.
But there may be something to be said about how we're made to bear witness to the horrific crimes and that the show itself seems awkwardly split between genres in that regard. On one side it's all about cops solving a case and on the other its a boogeyman-type slasher deal. CBS is touting it as the fall's scariest new series, and that may hold true if you're into a bunch of cliched scare scenes. Maggie Q's division head Beth Davis says, during her many moments of "what is stalking?" PSA style exposition in the pilot, that the majority of their work supposedly involves routine assessments and analysis. But if this is to be the fright-fest it claims to be, you can bet we'll see none of that. And a lot of psycho killers who take things to horror movie extremes. Like the bad guy in this first chapter who lights women on fire.
Stalker may be a bit tacky as it pertains to the levels of PG-13 horror film shocks it tries to deliver, but its biggest crime is that it's rather humdrum. It's unremarkable by-the-book crime TV storytelling. At least some effort was put into making the leads a bit more interesting than one might usually find on shows where the investigators take a...
Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲɪr]) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic.
Oct 2, 2014 · Stalker: Pilot Review. A woman is set on fire by a stalker. We try and catch the stalker. And maybe, deep down, we are all stalkers?
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Episode 1 Aired Oct 1, 2014 Pilot Lt. Beth Davis and Detective Jack Larsen seek out a stalker with an affinity for fire; Beth meets a student who says his former roommate is harassing him.
