Dark Intruder [Blu-ray]

An Old Time Body Snatcher Horror Flick.Really Enjoyable Escape from days Chaotic Political and Daily Headaches.

Excellent Release!!!! First off, I want to personally thank Frank Tarzi (Kino-Lorber) and filmmaker Gary Gerani ("Trading Paint" "Pumpkinhead") for making this happen. Originally a television pilot that was released theatrically, deemed too violent for the tube, the movie stars Leslie Nielsen as Brett Kingsford, a wealthy man-about-the town who secretly works for the police as a independent investigator in early 1900's San Francisco. A string of events lead him into a H.P. Lovecraft world of horror. Also starring Judi Meredith, Mark Richman and Werner Klemperer, this 2k transfer off a original 35mm print (presented 1:66.1 ) features a extensive audio commentary by Gary Gerani and a interview with Mike Westmore, nephew of Bud Westmore. This is a must for ant collector!

A classic made for TV horror-monster movieoriginal, unique and highly enjoyable and aformidable cast as well

REALLLY GOOD IN BLU RAY,A BUSTED PILOT RELEASED AS MOVIE,IT WILL KEEP YOUR INTEREST!

Why is this movie only 59 minutes long? That’s because it was a failed pilot for a TV series that would have been called The Black Cloak. The series would have been produced by Alfred Hitchcock’s television company, Shamley Productions, but it was considered too scary and violent for TV.NBC sold it to Universal Pictures, where Hitchcock was under contract, and it played on double bills with William Castle’s I Saw What You Did.Written by Barré Lyndon (The Lodger, George Pal’s The War of the Worlds) and directed by Harvey Hart (The Pyx), this opens with a caped killer — I love that Wikipedia refers to him as a “hump-backed, long-fingernailed, black hat-wearing, caped and demonically-growling figure” — murdering a woman before introducing us to Brett Kingsford (Leslie Nielsen!). He’s a supernatural detective with a dwarf sidekick named Nikola who is on the trail of a Summarian demon that wants a body of its own.That sentence alone should make you want to watch this.That Summarian demon is using a series of Jack the Ripper inspired murders in San Francisco to enter our world. At each murder scene, police find an ivory statue that has a demon coming out of a man. With each new killing, the statue changes more and more.As if things can’t get any stranger, an antique dealer just happens to have a mummified creature with a seven-spoked wheel, with each of the parts of the wheel representing a different murder that will happen. And before long, that killer is going to be coming for our hero.Look for Peter Mark Richman (the annoying heel Charles McCulloch from that time Jason went to New York City), Judi Meredith (Jack the Giant Killer), Werner Klemperer (forever Colonel Klink), Bill Quinn (Dead and Buried), Vaughn Taylor (Psycho) and Peter Brocco (What’s the Matter with Helen?).Jack Laird, who produced this, would go on to create Night Gallery with Rod Serling. Any of the silly parts of that show — like the ones starring Nielsen — can be blamed on him.