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A Return to Salem's Lot is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Larry Cohen released in USA on 1 may 1987 with Michael Moriarty
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
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Add to a movie listA Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen.
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Synopsis
Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story. As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake. As the trio escapes Salem's Lot, the vampires are left in the sun to burn along with their homes.Actors
Michael Moriarty
(Joe Weber)
Andrew Duggan
(Judge Axel)
Samuel Fuller
(Van Meer)
Evelyn Keyes
(Mrs. Axel)
June Havoc
(Aunt Clara)
Salem's Lot
(1979)
(1987)
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