thedeadlyhook

I totally enjoyed writing it! (Damn, I need a Kolchak icon.) It was really interesting to revisit those films, because I was so young when they were new - I honestly don't have any memory at all of seeing the original film ( I was way too young for my parents to have let me watch it on first broadcast, although I suppose I could've seen a reshowing), but I did remember bit of the Night Strangler and the TV series. And it's so revealing, to realize how much the police cliches have changed - in one scene, the coroner essentially offers what amounts to a killer psych profile, trying to explain that some people do suffer from the illusion that they are vampires and drink blood, and the police chief responds with, "I don't care what kind of nut he is!" (boggles)