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Salem's Lot (TV 1979)

TV Movie  -   -  Horror | Mystery | Thriller  -  17 November 1979 (USA)
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Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.

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Young novelist returning home to Salem's Lot after many years is disturbed by the strange behaviour of its people. He begins to believe that the source of the trouble may be the eerie old Marsten House that overlooks the town. Written by Grant Hamilton <n9431210@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au>

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The ultimate in terror!


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17 November 1979 (USA)  »

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Salem's Lot: The Movie  »

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$4,000,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

When it was released in Spain they called it "Phantasma II", being a supposed sequel to Phantasm. But the two movies have nothing in common. See more »

Goofs

As Cully and Larry enter the living room, a crew member and a boom mic are reflected in the mirror. See more »

Quotes

Jason Berk: [at a restaurant, asking Ben about his new novel] Marsten House still the centre of the story?
Ben Mears: Yep.
Jason Berk: How about the Glick boys? You connect them with the house?
Ben Mears: Everything in Salem's Lot is connected to that house. You can see it from every part of the town. It's like a beacon throwing off an energy force.
[Mike Ryerson stumbles against the table]
Jason Berk: Mike!
Mike Ryerson: [weakly] Hello, Mister Burke.
Jason Berk: Mike... are you on something?
Mike Ryerson: No.
Jason Berk: Drugs?
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Crazy Credits

The text of the opening credits appear and dissolve piece by piece into each other in a jigsaw puzzle fashion. See more »

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I'm trying to figure out why so many horror fans don't like this show...
9 September 1998 | by (Maryland, USA) – See all my reviews

As it really is a wonderful and suspenseful vampire tale! Stephen King - not normally my favorite horror writer - has created one of the absolute BEST modern vampire tales in this story, and this mini-series translation is absolutely true to the feel of his tale! Instead of splatterfest effects , this show hinges itself on a high-tension spiderweb of plotlines and sets up the vampire more as a behind-the-scenes controlling evil. The terror here is not in seeing the monster, it is in NOT seeing him and knowing that he and his minions are out there, somewhere, plotting and planning with the heros stumbling blindly after them like toddlers in the dark. Give this show a chance! It may just scare you!


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