 Kolchak:the night stalker
Episode 2
The Zombie
Somebody or something is killing members of organized crime in Chicago by snapping there spines,mean while Kolchak is given the task of teaching Monique Marmelstein the art of journalism.
A nice fast paced episode that neatly ties in the Mafia with Voodoo and a slight twist of blaxploitation.With some nice guest stars Huggie Bear aka Antonio Fargas as Sweetstick Weldon and Hong Kong Phooey himself Scatman Crothers.1970s checklist,stereotypical Italian Mafia check,stereotypical black pimps check,stereotypical voodoo priestess check.Criticizing anything from the 70's is pretty futile and it certainly doesn't suffer from the prissy we can't offend anybody TV drama were stuck with nowadays.By the way are all Haitians into Voodoo,(got to be better than stamp collecting as a hobby).
This is a great episode,with a really interesting story that has some rather neat ideas and a cool looking monster to boot.And now I know how to kill a voodoo raised zombie.(no thanks to you Mr Fulci).
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