本片由史蒂文·元、丹尼尔·卡卢亚和柯柯·帕尔莫主演，他们饰演位于加州内陆一座荒凉小镇的居民，目击了一场令人不安及不寒而栗的诡异发现。

一个小伙子想办法帮助一个欧洲小姑娘。小姑娘刚从医院诊所逃出来，因为她目睹了自己的父母被一个连环杀手谋杀。于是他们俩要在杀手找到他们之前先下手为强……

　Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he&♯39;s reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It&♯39;s here he gets the story of his life. But will the local sheriff, or the D.A., or even his own boss, let him print it? He has an ally in the FBI agent brought in to investigate this strange case. It seems someone is biting the necks of young girls and draining their blood. Can this killer with supernormal powers really be a 70-year-old Rumanian millionaire? Can he really be a vampire? And can an aging reporter do anything to stop him?

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