Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Salem's Lot (1979)


CBS
Directed by Tobe Hooper
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)

Writer David Soul returns to his small hometown ostensibly to research a new book about the local "haunted house". An elderly James Mason has rented it out for his new antique shop. Soon, mysterious deaths start to occur and Soul and another newcomer are the primary suspects. However, it turns out there is a vampire loose and the missing townsfolk are infected. Soul sets out to find the vampire and kill it. Long, leisurely tv miniseries takes it time developing characters and plot. However, once it gets going there are some truly memorable scenes: particularly the one with a floating dead kid outside a bedroom window!

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