This is real TV Horror and Suspense. Thinnes stars as David Norliss in this pilot that first aired in 1972. Norliss is a burned out investigative reporter who is writing a book exposing ghost and seance hoaxes supposedly conjuring paranormal phenomena. After a solem and horrible sounding phone call to his off guard publisher, Norliss vanishes, leaving only a stack of cassette tapes on which he's dictated his strange findings, These Are The Norliss Tapes. A wealthy widow, played fantastically by Angie Dickinson, is attacked by the crazed likeness or corpse of her recently deceased spouse, Norliss discovers a horrific case that is full of of empty crypts, blood-drained corpses and occult violence. What is the significance of an ancient and sacred Egyptian scarab? Who is sculpting a demon likeness the dead artist's private and secluded studio? What has happened to David Norliss? The horrifying answers, mystifying truth and supernatural explanation just may lay hidden in dreaded The Norliss Tapes.
 
Vonetta McGee (Blacula) and Claude Akins co-star in this landmark pilot produced and directed by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) and written by William F. Nolan (Logan's Run, Burnt Offerings) that fans still call one of the most frightening made-for-TV movies of the decade.
Cast & Crew
Actors:
Don Porter
Roy Thinnes
Vonetta McGee
Angie Dickinson
Claude Akins
Writers:
Dan Curtis
William Nolan
 
Producers:
Dan Curtis
 
Directors:
Dan Curtis
Product Information
Features:
Features Not Specified
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 Color
Audio: (more info)
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
 
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Production Year: 1973
Release Date: 10/3/2006
 
Length: 72 mins
Rating: NR