约翰·卢埃林·摩

Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It'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…

在教授艾伦·德里斯科尔（克里斯托弗·李饰）的推荐下，一名年轻的女学生南·巴洛（维尼西亚·史蒂文森饰）前往虚构的马萨丘斯·埃茨小镇怀特伍德，对巫术进行研究。她发现这个小镇被一个臭名昭著的女巫伊丽莎白·塞尔温/纽利斯夫人（帕特里夏·杰西尔饰）的转世所占据，她在17世纪被烧死在火刑柱上。为了保持她的不朽，每年都必须向女巫献祭处女——而今年，这位学生是被选中的受害者。