Some true midnight movies, first here's "The Night Stalker" from 1971, starring Darren McGavin as reporter Kolchak. Scary, but also containing a lot of humor. Reporter Carl Kolchak is reluctantly assigned by his editor to cover police investigation of a series of murders. The investigation trail leads in a supernatural direction, that police don't want to discuss, and his own newspaper's editor doesn't believe or want to report it.
Done as a TV movie, it was enormously popular and re-broadcast frequently. A universal crowd-pleaser. And it holds up well even 54 years later.
Scripted by Richard Matheson, a prolific and talented writer and Hollywood scripter, known for his frequently adapted book "I Am Legend", and for his many scripts for the original Twilight Zone TV series. Among many other works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson
