…in Tim Burton’s upcoming movie of Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp is now reportedly set to play a famous vampire hunter, reporter Carl Kolchak, in a movie of the short-lived but fondly-remembered ‘70s-era spookshow The Night Stalker, to be directed by Sean of the Dead’s Edgar Wright.
So…
Monster-of-the-Week: …in acknowledgement of this worthy project let’s recognize the first quarry of the original Carl (the great Darren McGavin): Vampire Janos Skorzeny, the Las Vegas-based bloodsucker played by the ever-menacing Barry Atwater…
Skorzeny & Carl went fang-to-stake in the original 1972 TV movie. Wright & Depp will have their work cut out for them to top that pilot’s atmosphere…
