HANGAR 18: KOLCHAK'S COVER UP

 Nursing a bad cold I'm watching a film from 1980 called Hangar 18.

Its an interesting flick that reminds me of an extended X-Files episode. It has the hue of Capricorn One as well from 1977.

An even bigger X link is the presence of Darren McGavin, none other than Kolchak, he of the brilliant 1970's TV series that Chris Carter has cited as an inspiration for the X-Files!

I'm enjoying the film and the spacecraft at its dark heart is really impressive to look at. It looks like a huge black throne sat on an upturned black plate.

I know I've seen something similar.

The screw-off lid of alien or sci-fi jar or canister keeps coming into my head!

The Tesseract jar top? No.

What about the upturned base of the Palitoy Hoth Radar cannon? We're getting close.

There's something else that looks like that Hangar 18 ship. I know there is. A cake tin, a jelly mould?

What?

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I'm watching X The Unknown now!

SCREAM OF THE WOLF

 I'm on a bit of a Dan Curtis/ Clint Walker kick at the moment. Seeing Snowbeast the other night sparked it off.

I'm currently deep into the mulderous files of Kolchak's exploits, having just watched the two films and now embarking on the TV series.

By way of an umleitung I plan to watch Scream of the Wolf too. Like Snowbeast a few years later, its was a made for TV Movie from 1974 starring Clint Walker and Peter Graves. It originally played in the States on January 16th, 1974 at 8.30pm on ABC. 

Do you remember it on ABC? Where you still up then?

Not sure if this was on in the UK. I don't remember seeing it. Do you?

KOLCHAK: WHAT SLAYS IN VEGAS!

 

I'm watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker the film now. A film I loved as a kid back in 1972 and have seen many times, it can never be too many times to re-watch.

Set in Ed's Las Vegas the world-weary hack Kolchak is on the tail of a blood-thirsty killer.

This film went on to inspire a sequel, a series and ultimately the X-Files.

The Producer, Bridgeport-born Dan Curtis, made many 1970's horror films and is probably most famous for being Director of the influential Dark Shadows series and films in the late 1960's and early 70's.

Do you like Kolchak?

CLASSIC HALLOWEEN: KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER 1972

 

Sit back with a dark rum and enjoy a creepy gem to take you past the Witching hour of All Hallow's Eve!

KOLCHAK'S BACK!

Blog friend and comic illustrator has mentioned to me his new work for a modern Kolchak graphic Novel. We've talked about Kolchak before and I know Scoop is a big fan having posted about the spook detective a few times.

Here's the link to the new Kolchak venture Paul's helping illustrate.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manbomb/kolchak-the-night-stalker-50th-anniversary?ref=3gy4h1

Do you like Kolchak? Is there anything else like it?

MEN IN BLACK: KOLCHAK?

Reading further into my TV Horror book I was amazed to read something about Kolchak the old American TV series. It says that there was an organisation in it called Men in Black. is that right? Is that where the comic version and the later Will Smith film comes from? Do you know readers?

KOLCHAK AGAIN

Been out all night. Now home having a cold beer and watching Kolchak: The Night Strangler from 1974. Set in Seattle its about a killer who's over a hundred years old.

Really enjoying it. I thought we'd blogged about the other TV film before, The Night Stalker, but we haven't. That's excellent as well.

This is similar and has the same film noir newspaper hack style.

Kolchak was like a sort of X-Files back then.

Do you like Kolchak?