Kolchak Logo 'The Executioners'

by Max Hodge
Carl Kolchak

‘The Executioners’ was written by Max Hodge, although it is not known if this script was ever considered for production. It’s a great story: three murders occur in one day, the victims found strangled, beheaded and hanged. Investigating the story, Kolchak discovers that the deaths are linked to ‘The Executioners’, a Seventeenth-Century Dutch painting depicting a hangman, an axe-wielding executioner, and a poison-carrying monk. The artist was the notorious Henry Boetje, who once murdered a dozen victims, incinerated them and then mixed their ashes in with his paint; he also used their blood to clean his brushes. When Kolchak notes that the figures in the painting have moved from one night to the next, he realises that the subjects of the painting are coming to life to carry out the grisly murders…

Notes:
*Featuring Carl Kolchak