Salem's Lot (1979 TV miniseries)
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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 |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Budget | US$ 4,000,000 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | November 17 – November 24, 1979 |
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| Followed by |
A Return to Salem's Lot Salem's Lot (2004) |
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 discovering that its citizens are turning into vampires. Salem's Lot combines elements of both the vampire film and haunted house subgenres of horror.
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 Mark that "they've found us again." Knowing an evil presence is nearby, they decide to stay to fight it.
Two years earlier, Mears, a successful author, returns after a long absence to his small hometown of Salem's Lot (formally known as Jerusalem's Lot) in Maine in the United States. Mears intends to write a book about the Marsten House, an old, ominous property on a hilltop which has a reputation for being haunted, and attempts to rent it. However, Mears finds that another new arrival in town, the mysterious Richard Straker (James Mason), has recently bought the Marsten House. Straker is also in the process of opening 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 reconnects with his kindly former school teacher, Jason Burke (Lew Ayres). Mears tells Burke that he feels the Marsten House is somehow inherently evil, recalling a traumatic childhood experience which took place inside it.
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