The Norliss Tapes

5/4/2022

_**Dan Curtis attempts another “Night Stalker” with Roy Thinnes**_ A writer in the greater San Francisco area (Thinnes) is assigned to investigate supposedly supernatural happenings, which leads him to the case of a widow in Monterey (Angie Dickinson) who claims she was attacked by her deceased artist husband (Nick Dimitri). Don Porter plays his publisher and Claude Akins a skeptical sheriff. A television production, "The Norliss Tapes" (1973) combines Noir fiction with a spooky story and is very similar to a few other Dan Curtis productions of the early 70s: “The Night Stalker” (1972), “The Night Strangler” (1973) and “Scream of the Wolf” (1974). The story goes that Curtis was aiming for a trilogy of movies with Darrin McGavin as paranormal reporter Carl Kolchak, but McGavin wan

3/22/2026

61/100 Made-for-TV movie centered around a set of tapes made by a paranormal investigator / debunker / author who details his experiences dealing with a zombie trying to summon a demon. Pretty typical for its time but handled extremely well by veteran supernatural director Dan Curtis with Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson taking it all very seriously. Great tense moments with Dickinson's dead husband, now wandering around at night, being frightful and murderous and the demon was cool. Pacing is great and I was quite entertained. Above average for a TV film. -- DrNostromo.com