S1E9
The Spanish Moss Murders
Kolchak: The Night Stalker · 1974-12-06 · 60 min
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what happens
A series of apparently unrelated deaths involve each victim being crushed to death, and covered in wet, slimy Spanish Moss. Upon investigation, Kolchak discovers that each victim was related to Paul Langois, a hot-tempered Cajun. However, Langois has an iron-clad alibi: he's been the subject of a sleep experiment and been kept asleep for several weeks. Eventual, Carl realizes that somehow Langois' sleep state has caused him to manifest a subconscious ""boogey-man"" from the Cajun bayou: Peremalfait, a huge creature covered in Spanish Moss that crushes the life right out of you. Peremalfait ""kills"" Langois to prevent him from being woken up, and Kolchak must travel into the sewers of Chicago to kill Peremalfait with the only thing that can destroy it: a spear made out of bayou gum wood.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S1E9 →who made it
- directed
- Gordon Hessler
- written
- Alvin R. Friedman, David Chase
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Ruth McDevitt as Emily Cowles
Richard Kiel as The Monster
Severn Darden as Dr. Aaron Pollack
Randy Boone as Gene the Fiddler- EElisabeth Brooks as Natalie - Lab Assistant
Keenan Wynn as Capt. Joe 'Mad Dog' Siska
Ned Glass as Apartment Superintendent
Virginia Gregg as Dr. Hollenbeck