The Norliss Tapes (1973)
- Directed by
- Dan Curtis
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A missing occult investigator leaves behind a series of audio tapes. The tapes tell the story of his encounter with a widow whose dead husband has returned to life.
mysteriouseerieatmosphericslow-burnocculttenseretrogothic
What happens
The Norliss Tapes is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by Dan Curtis and written by William F. Nolan, starring Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson. Framed through a series of tapes left behind by the missing David Norliss (Thinnes), an investigator of the occult, it tells the story of his encounter with Ellen Sterns Cort (Dickinson), a widow and her artist husband James (Nick Dimitri) who has returned from the dead. The film was originally produced by NBC as a pilot for a television series which was ultimately not produced. The film premiered as a standalone movie on the NBC network on February 21, 1973. Years later it acquired a modest cult following on the independent theater circuit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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