Salem's Lot

Limited Series

1979

3h 4m

TV-PG

CBS

1 Season

2 Episodes

Episode Guide

English

Mystery, Horror, Drama

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6.9

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Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead sl...

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Salem's Lot

TV-PG

Limited Series

1979

3h 4m

English

CBS

Mystery, Horror, Drama

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1 Season

2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Lance Kerwin

Mark Petrie

Elisha Cook Jr.

Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

Cully Sawyer

Majorie Glick

Ned Tibbets

Eva Miller

June Petrie

Ann Norton

Father Donald Callahan

Robert Lussier

Deputy Constable Nolly Gardner

Henry Glick

Ben Mears

Richard K. Straker

Susan Norton

Jason Burke

Bonnie Sawyer

Dr. Bill Norton

Mike Ryerson

Constable Parkins Gillespie

Larry Crockett

Kurt Barlow

Ted Petrie

Danny Glick

Ralphie Glick

Directed By: Tobe Hooper (2 Episodes)

Written By: Stephen King (2 Episodes) (Novel), Paul Monash (2 Episodes), + 1 more

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Bradym03 says...

4 years ago

Salem’s Lot freaked me out as a kid. When I watched this, I was home alone on Halloween night with all the lights off. Now that's how you should spend your Halloween night. However, Salem’s Lot dose have it's slow moments that kinda dragged the run time for me, but it's still a pretty effective and horrifying TV movie that still gets to me today.

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faithful soul says...

6 years ago

Despite its tv movie origins, this is still one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made. One of the best vampire movies, too. Less reliant on blood and gore (as befits tv standards at the time), the film relies on a chilling atmosphere, which let's be honest, is what a horror film should do. As a kid, this film gave me recurring nightmares - thanks to the Mr Barlow prison cell scene - and despite my resilience to horror films since, the film still has the power to unnerve me.

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Whitsbrain

7/10 2 years ago

I don't think I'm going to regret not reading the book first because I'd heard that neither book nor movie are particularly scary. In fact, most everything you hear about Salem's Lot (the movie) is how scary the floating kid at the window is. I'd say it's an effective moment, but not the ONLY mome More

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