Category: Movie - Mystery / Suspense / Thriller - TV Shows - Television
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $29.99YOU SAVE $9.99!
Buy it
DVD Kolchak - The Night Stalker
The acknowledged inspiration for The X-Files, and the basis for an updated 2005 network version, Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a short-lived 1974 series spun off from a pair of extremely popular made-for-TV movies about the supernatural adventures of dogged newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin). Though plagued by low ratings and critical brickbats, the show has cultivated a huge cult following over the past three decades, which has given rise to this three-disc set, which compiles all 20 episodes of the show. Though none of the episodic stories matches the suspense and writing strength of the Night Stalker or Night Strangler movies, TV horror fans will appreciate the parade of interesting and inventive monsters encountered by Kolchak (including a witches' coven in "The Trevi Collection"; an Aztec cult in "Legacy of Terror"; a Hindu Demon in "Horror in the Heights," which was penned by Hammer Films scribe Jimmy Sangster; and a headless biker in "Chopper," an episode deemed in extreme poor taste by Stephen King and co-written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, and Sopranos creator David Chase). McGavin is of course topnotch as Kolchak, and he's well-matched by Simon Oakland as his hot-tempered boss; guest stars include Scatman Crothers, James Gregory, Phil Silvers, Eric Braeden, Tom Skerritt, and Richard Kiel as the monster in two back-to-back episodes. Sadly, no extras accompany this fun collection of Kolchak's creepiest cases. --Paul Gaita
If you liked The Night Stalker this is the series to have!!!
Killer Kolchak
I was really keen on getting this series since I looked forward to it every wk when I was a ten yr old. True, most of the scares I thrilled to back then now seem kinda hokey (especially the last show whose Barney/Sleestack-like reptile is downright comical), but Mr. McGavin & Mr. Oakland are solid & the atmosphere (greatly aided by a shivering soundtrack) is consistently unique in TV eerieness. Caveats: no extras & some episodes seem prone to freezing up disc-wise (especially the last 1 or 2 on each disc). This is NOT a DVD player problem. I have multiple top of the line players which have frozen repeatedly in the same spots, requiring tedious skipping to nxt scenes & then reversing back to just after frozen pts. What a drag! Nonetheless, I still highly recommend the series but thumbs down on the technical integrity of the manufacturing.
THEY DON'T MAKE MOVIES LIKE THEY USED TO
MY KIDS REALLY ENJOYED KOLCHAK-SCARY BUT NOT TOO SCARY. SUSPENSE AND GOOD ACTING WITH NO VIOLENCE OR SEX. I REMEMBERED THIS SERIES AND JUST HAD TO SHARE MY GOOD MEMORIES OF THESE STORIES WITH THE NEXT GENERATION.
The Night Stalker Wisecracking Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is a rumpled news hound plucked from the fast-talking newspaper flicks of the 1940s and dropped into the swinging '70s. What makes the eccentric Kolchak even more unique, however, is his nose for the supernatural, a trait that leaves his editor (Simon Oakland) exasperated and the police less than amused. When he insists that a late-night Las Vegas serial killer (who leaves his victims drained of blood and sporting twin holes in the neck) is a modern-day vampire, he's practically run out of town by the local authorities. Naturally, he stalks the vampire himself, an unlikely Van Helsing armed with a silver cross, a wooden stake, and his ever-present tape recorder and flashbulb camera. Carol Lynley is his... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Darren McGavin - Carol Lynley Director(s): John Llewellyn Moxey DVD Release Date: Released the 24 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.95 Your Price: $11.21YOU SAVE $3.74!
Buy it
When it premiered on CBS on October 2, 1955, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was an instant hit destined for long-term popularity. The series' original half-hour anthology format provided a perfect showcase for stories of mystery, suspense, and the macabre that reflected Hitchcock's established persona. Every Sunday at 9:30 p.m., the series began with the familiar theme of Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette" (which would thereafter be inextricably linked with Hitchcock), and as Hitchcock's trademark profile sketch was overshadowed by the familiar silhouette of Hitchcock himself, the weekly "play" opened and closed with the series' most popular feature: As a good-natured host whose inimitable presence made him a global celebrity, Hitchcock delivered droll, dryly sardonic... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.98 Your Price: $31.99YOU SAVE $7.99!
Buy it
CBS had an instant hit on their hands when The Wild Wild West made its network debut on September 17, 1965. While many of the popular TV Westerns were running out of steam, series creator Michael Garrison ripped a page from the Ian Fleming/Sean Connery playbook and conceived The Wild Wild West as a "James Bond Western," energizing the genre by combining a traditional Western setting (primarily the San Francisco region in the 1870s) with the accoutrements of the spy genre. It was a foolproof formula, further refined by producer Fred Frieberger (who later produced the third and final season of Star Trek), and TWWW held its popular time-slot (7:30-8:30 on Friday nights) for its entire four-season run. Smart casting proved to be another source of audience appeal:... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gunnar Hellström - Charles R. Rondeau - Larry Peerce - Richard Donner - Lee H. Katzin DVD Release Date: Released the 06 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $49.99 Your Price: $35.49YOU SAVE $14.5!
Buy it
I'm about to exchange my second copy of this set because it is unwatchable. It doesn't just skip, it freezes--I actually had to turn my machine off to stop it at one point. I've spent way too much time restarting the discs over and over--this is no way to watch a collection I've waited eagerly for 10 years to enjoy! The first three episodes ran just fine; the problems start with the second side of the first disc and don't stop. I'll keep exchanging till I get a copy that plays till I tell it to stop--that's not having high expectations, that's the very least I'm paying for. It's too bad Amazon is stuck with all the shipping, but maybe they'll complain to Universal, which will carry more weight than my letter will. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $49.98 Your Price: $34.98YOU SAVE $15!
Buy it
Val Lewton's name is synonymous with the subtlest, most mysterious brand of horror filmmaking in Hollywood's golden age, and the nine horror classics he produced at RKO between 1942 and 1946 constitute the most remarkable cycle of creativity in B-movie history. (For the record, the Lewton/RKO legacy also includes two non-horror entries, Youth Runs Wild and Mademoiselle Fifi.)
Before becoming a film producer, the Russian-born Lewton was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, nonfiction, and a couple of pornographic novels. He also worked for years as assistant to David O. Selznick, a legendary producer with a distinctive personal signature--and a flair for grandiosity Lewton himself never emulated. It's ever so revealing that, on Selznick's Gone With the Wind, it was... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Boris Karloff DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $59.92 Your Price: $41.98YOU SAVE $17.94!
Buy it
