The second made-for-TV Kolchak movie - even though it has more than its share of thrills and chills - functions better as a grand send-up of the original, with all of the arguments between him and Vincenzo. It's also a reasonable glimpse into what a lot of the episodes of the TV series what look like, right down to an early, bratty archetype of the Emily Cowles character (here played by Kate Murtagh).
Every symopsis I have seen makes the claim Holmes moved back in with his MIL which was not really the case. Obviously done to drum up interest. The doc itself is more promo film than anything else. Mean Man was a WASP song and the moniker of Holmes band. Overall, a yawner that contains the occassional laugh or two.
There was a period of time when Leon Russell was the most inventive piano player in pop music, bar none - and this 26-minute collaborative slate of overflowing psychedelic-shaded revelations with fellow L.A. scenester Marc Benno was the opening stake in that claim.
