United States

Las Vegas - a town where the unusual is considered normal ...but when former top reporter Carl Kolchak (DARREN McGAVIN), reduced to covering the strange murder of a showgirl, meets with police reluctance to reveal the cause of her death, his curiosity is aroused. Suddenly there is a series of murders, each strange and each apparently committed in the same terrifying style. When police again refuse to reveal any facts, Kolchak gets details from a city official Bernie Jenks (RALPH MEEKER). Putting pieces together, Kolchak realises he is unearthing a frightening story...