Salem's Lot (1979 TV mini-series)
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| Genre | Horror |
| Based on | Salem's Lot by Stephen King |
| Written by | Paul Monash |
| Screenplay by | Paul Monash |
| Directed by | Tobe Hooper |
| Starring |
David Soul James Mason Lance Kerwin Bonnie Bedelia Lew Ayres |
| Theme music composer | Harry Sukman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Stirling Silliphant |
| Producer(s) | Richard Kobritz Anna Cottle (associate producer) |
| Cinematography | Jules Brenner |
| Editor(s) | Carroll Sax |
| Running time | 184 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Warner Bros. Television |
| Distributor | CBS |
| Budget | US$4,000,000 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | November 17 – November 24, 1979 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | A Return to Salem's Lot |
Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American television adaptation of the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot revolves around a writer returning to his hometown and discovers the citizens are turning into vampires. It combines elements of both the vampire film and haunted house subgenres.
At a church in Guatemala, a man and a boy, Ben Mears (David Soul) and Mark Petrie (Lance Kerwin), are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Petrie "They've found us again." Knowing an evil presence is there, they decide to fight it.
Two years earlier, in the small town of Salem's Lot (formally known as Jerusalem's Lot) in Maine in the United States, Ben Mears, an author, has returned to the town after a long absence to write a book about the Marsten House, an ominous old property on a hilltop which has a reputation for being haunted. Mears attempts to rent the house but finds that another new arrival in town, the mysterious Richard Straker (James Mason), has recently bought it. Straker also opens an antique shop with his oft-mentioned but always absent business partner, Kurt Barlow. Meanwhile, Mears moves into a boarding house in town run by Eva Miller (Marie Windsor), and develops a romantic relationship with a local woman, Susan Norton (Bonnie Bedelia). He befriends Susan's father, Dr. Bill Norton (Ed Flanders), and also renews his old friendship with his former school teacher, Jason Burke (Lew Ayres). Mears tells Burke that he feels the Marsten House is somehow inherently evil, and recalls how he was once traumatized inside the house when he was a child.
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