Carl Kolchak turns up in Seattle (as well as his ever-suffering editor/friend Tony Vincenzo) and goes up against a 144-year-old alchemist collecting the blood of women to maintain his immortality. Of course Kolchak proves to be a stick in the craw of the Seattle police department and faces another conspiracy of silence. The reporter’s second outing shows Darren McGavin already wearing the Kolchak character like an expertly tailored suit, Simon Oakland losing his cool and cementing one of my all time favorite love/hate relationships and cute as hell Jo Ann Pflug as a belly dancing undergraduate helping the reporter out when no one else will. The villain is a decaying civil war doctor haunting the Seattle underground and cameos include Al Lewis as a hermit with plenty of ailments, Wally Cox as a helpful records keeper at Kolchak’s new paper, Margaret Hamilton as an anthropology professor/occult expert and John Carradine as Kolchak’s no-nonsense boss. Its premise is similar to the landmark original but seems to be having a bit more fun with everything. A superior sequel to an already excellent original.
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