The Norliss Tapes
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 Norliss, an investigator of the occult, it tells the story of his encounter with a widow and her artist husband who has returned from the dead.
Plot
David Norliss, a writer working on a book debunking spiritualists and fakers, vanishes from his home in San Francisco, California, leaving behind a series of audio tapes explaining his absence and recent investigations. The narrative unfolds as a friend, his publisher Sanford Evans, listens to the tapes.
More details
| author | William F. Nolan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | San Francisco |
| director | Dan Curtis |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | art exhibition attack audio tape burn bury debunk even flee gallery owner lab results listen meet mysterious woman one night sargoth scarab suffer young woman |
| publisher | NBC |
| theme | detective fiction vampire |