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Date Viewed	Venue	Note
11.12.23	Internet	This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2023 So according to imdb trivia, Kolchak started as a TV movie that did very well so they made another one. A third was in the works but ABC turned it into a series instead. Now, I'm not gonna track down the entire series but the internet did provide both movies which is great. This time it's Seattle rather than Vegas and other than the newspaper boss the rest of the cast has been swapped out. Al Lewis instead of Elisha Cook Jr., John Carradine instead of Charles McGraw. The killer is also a bit less iconic albeit still supernatural. It's also clear that there's a bunch of back-lot and studio photography here with just bits of Seattle location footage interspersed. Which was still cool by the way. I'm not sure I've seen a movie shot in Seattle around then, it looked pretty cool. I also hadn't heard of the Seattle underground which I guess is a real thing. It was still fun, but not as good as the first. Still, it's good to finally know what the hell this show was about, and it seems like a pretty cool concept, a little bit like the Friday the 13th series or, I don't know... was Psych like this? I didn't watch Psych. Well somehow the day has gotten away from me. It's already past midnight and I was feeling it by the end of this. I'm going to ditch another double feature and just try to get one midnight movie watched before passing out.