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With Salem's Lot, a blood-curdling shocker based on the novel by Stephen King, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) sends the time-honored vampire legend soaring on bat wings into the modern era. Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose .. Read more

Starring David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Director Tobe Hooper
Genres Horror

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Salem's Lot

With Salem's Lot, a blood-curdling shocker based on the novel by Stephen King, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) sends the time-honored vampire legend soaring on bat wings into the modern era. Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned "partner" (Reggie Nalder). The solid supporting cast of vampire victims and fighters includes Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Elsiha Cook, Ed Flanders, George Dzundza, Lance Kerwin, Geoffrey Lewis and Marie Windsor. It's hard to keep the undead down. And so easy to be scared in Salem's Lot.

Starring David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Director Tobe Hooper
Studio WARNER BROS
Run time DVD: 3 hrs 3 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Horror
Language English, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Spanish
Released DVD: 10 Jul 2006
Production year: 1979
Format DVD

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  • 7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Eeeek!

    As a kid of 10 I saw this when it was first shown on UK TV back in in 1980/81-ish. It scared the **** out of me!

    Even now, 20-odd yrs later it gives me the willies! Perhaps it's partly down to mental association with childhood nightmares. Perhaps if i'd seen this for the 1st time when I was older it wouldn't have had the same effect. All I know is that I still consider this to be one hell of a creepy film.

    The music gives me goosebumps, and last time I watched it (about 12 months ago) I had to turn the light on for the first time in ages when I got up during the night to go to the bathroom, and I still felt genuinely un-nerved!

    The film differs from the original book (which i'd never read until a couple of years ago), but not so much as to cause annoyance or disappointment to a viewer who has read the book first I think.

    Anyway, unless you're a hardened horror fanatic who has become numbed to all but the most graphic and gorey horror films, I think you'll enjoy this. And just see if you can go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, after watching this film, without turning on the lights!

      • A customer from Stoke-on-Trent, England
      • Posted 16 May 2006 10:22

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    still not bad

    although some 25 years old still not bad. okay the special effects are not so special. some of them more funny.

    but it is an okay version of one of Stephen Kings masterpieces.

      • michael bildner from nottingham
      • Posted 07 Mar 2007 22:49

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