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  1. 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.

  2. Jan 13, 2022 · From the time it aired on Jan. 11, 1972—about a half a century ago—The Night Stalker made history. The movie might not have been intended to be a genre fusion film of noir and horror, but it was and it’s still the best of the rare sub-genre.

  3. Sep 20, 2024 · Though it might be best known today as the inspiration for the 1974 cult series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, this film about a vampire picking off victims in Las Vegas and the reporter trying to stop him was the most popular made-for-TV movie of all time when it was released.

  4. 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.

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    • Horror, Mystery
    • John Llewellyn Moxey
    • 1972-01-11
  5. Oct 30, 2018 · I was three years-old when John Llewellyn Moxey’s The Night Stalker premiered on the ABC Movie of the Week on January 11, 1972 and it took me nearly twenty years to catch up with it on a late night rerun on a local ABC-TV affiliate.

  6. Jun 29, 2008 · By the mid-1980s, the vampire had confidently stepped into the modern day and almost every vampire film made since has remained there. The Night Stalker was one of the sharpest and most amusingly well written of these in its attempts to address the idea of a vampire in the modern-day.

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  8. The Night Stalker is a 1972 made-for-TV horror film produced by Dan Curtis (of Dark Shadows fame), directed by John Llewelyn Mosley, and written by Richard Matheson, who adapted the unpublished novel The Kolchak Papers by Jeff Rice.

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