the only reason the norliss tape deserve any star be the presence of angie dickinson in the cast . other than get to see angie baby in a pre police woman performance and there nothing else worth see here . the synopsis represent minor spoiler david norliss be tap to write a book on the supernatural . one day he mysteriously disappear after phone his publisher and suggest he have stumble across something that have place him in mortal danger . the entire series for which this miserable pilot be write be apparently intend to be a series of flashback via the norliss tape a set of audio tape the writer record while investigate case of the supernatural . in the pilot episode and a wealthy sculptor dy but not before purchase an ancient egyptian scarab ring from a local occultist who assure him the bauble will give him immortality after death . we soon discover the ring itself doesn not grant immortality . instead and it only reanimate the sculptor corpse and allow him to escape his crypt so he can run around town drain pretty girl of all their blood . blue face and yellow eyed and growl out arrrghhhhhhs you haven not hear since you last watched scooby doo cartoon and the sculptor attack his wife ( dickinson ) one dark night . she escape and and via a mutual acquaintance and contact norliss to get his assistance in solve the mystery behind her late husband uncanny reappearance on her estate . so be this guy a vampire . no . there no vampire in this story despite what you may have read or hear . the sculptor doesn not drink his victim blood he collect it . how . don not know . we only see him attack and never collect . why . to fulfill the second part of his bid for immortality . it turn out the reanimated sculptor will only be allow to live forever if he build a life size statue of a demon name sargoth out of a mixture of clay and human blood . once it finish and sargoth plan to inhabit the statue and use it a his gateway into our world . the final analysis representthe norliss tape wasn not pick up a a series for a very good reason . it be garbage . a you can see from my synopsis and the story be a paltry and ill conceive mess . the acting and dialogue offer no good . this isn not even a contender for a so bad it good award . sometimes bad be just bad . after year of hear underground rumbling about the great merit of the norliss tape and i be very excited to find it air on fox movie channel on 10/15/03 . i wish i hadn not set myself up for the fall . have screen this groaner for the first time two day ago and i can only assume any applause you have hear so far from other imdb reviewer be come from those who be review the show base on dim memory and the nostalgia of youth . or perhaps they be simply loyal fan of dan curtis . either way and they have offer you mislead review of the norliss tape . pauly orchid october 17 and 2003 .