Crackle of Death

Crackle of Death
Directed by	Alexander Grasshoff Don Weis
Starring	Darren McGavin Simon Oakland Jack Grinnage Carol Ann Susi
Distributed by	ABC
Release date(s)	1974
Running time	94 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Crackle of Death is a 1976 film, the third produced in the Night Stalker film series. It combined the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes "Firefall" and "The Energy Eater" with additional narration by Darren McGavin as Kolchak. It also contains new dialogue by McGavin, Oakland and Grinnage, as well as new "scenes", such as a newspaper on a desk; the coach's name on a door; photos of the victims; and the image of the Doppleganger being inserted into old footage (for example, when Kolchak looks at the sky, he sees the Doppleganger's giant face).

Crackle of Death was followed by a fourth movie entitled The Demon and The Mummy that combined two more episodes in a similar manner; namely, "Demon In Lace" and "Legacy of Terror" "Demon And The Mummy" was released to television stations on January 4, 1976; "Crackle Of Death" was released on January 11, 1976.

All four episodes comprising these films were subsequently withdrawn from the original television syndication package. They were not made available in their entirety again until a Columbia House VHS video release in the 1990s. The TV-edited films have never been released on home video.

See also

• List of Kolchak: The Night Stalker Episodes
• The Night Stalker (1st movie) The original vampire story.
• The Night Strangler (2nd movie) A mad scientist achieves immortality through murderous means.
• The Night Killers (3rd unproduced movie) Aliens replace prominent citizens with androids in Hawaii.

External links

• Crackle of Death at the Internet Movie Database
• Crackle of Death at AllRovi