holderdj I saw this when I was maybe 8/9 years old and for YEARS afterward had many problems with closed curtains at night. I was more afraid of the dead artist guy than the devil coming to life part. I was afraid that he'd be standing there like in the film, with his dead, white eyes, ready to jump through the glass.Great film - haven't seen it in maybe 30 years. If i see it again, I hope it matches up to the original terror. Someone made the comment that the 70's TV horror films were just much scarier than anything new coming out. Maybe it was poor budgeting and cheesy special effects that made them focus on story and atmosphere. In any event, I haven't been scared by anything of the screen since those years. The Norliss Tapes, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark... sigh

estabansmythe When it came to dispensing chills on TV in the '60s & '70s, Dan Curtis was the man! His Dark Shadows vampire soap opera was innovative, but it was THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) TV movie with Darren McGavin and its subsequent follow-up TV movie, THE NIGHT STRANGLER and Night Stalker TV series which earned him his reputation as a Big Time chill-despensing master.Then came THE NORLISS TAPES...WHOA! This is one scary movie! Up in beautiful, rainy Marin County, Roy Thinnes investigates the possibility that a recently deceased artist isn't necessarily dead. I'm not going to give away a thing other than to say that if scary movies are your thing, this one will ring your bell! Do not miss it.

Boling35 I first saw this movie back when i was 15 years old about 1975,it scared the heck out of me then, i did not sleep that night very well and for many nights after.I saw this movie again in the late 70s, and it was still mighty scary.I saw it again for the third time this past year in October 2002, and it scared me just as much if not more so then back when i saw it as a kid,I wonder how this tv movie can still be so scary to a very large and strong grown man.

kelvnel I recall seeing this TV movie twice as a child and it scared me more than the Exorcist! I have'nt seen it on British TV for at least 15 years. The way it is set up and ends seems like it is a continuing series. I don't know if this was the original intention, or just to make it spookier.Roy Thinnes, made one or two movies like this at the same time and was excellant in both. In this he is the 'goody' but in the other ( Satan's School For Girls ) he was the ultimate baddy. From his Invaders Days he always had the ambivalent look of always looking like the opposite of the character he played.This film had that early seventies supernatural feel of many TV movies and series of the same ilk, but I thought this quite original. Thinnes investigates a disappearance or death of a woman's sculpter husband. Meanwhile people are being killed and drained of blood. Through numerous chills mainly because the monster/vampire in this looks like a proper scary version of a Scooby-Doo monster, it transpires that the sculpter is a devil-desciple who is making an effigy of Lucifer out of clay and human blood, in order to bring him to life. The scene at the end when Lucifer comes alive is numbing. Don't know why all the Hollywoood rip-off merchants dont remake this. Would be a smash