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Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tobe Hooper released in USA on 17 november 1979 with David Soul

Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) (1979)

Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
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Released in USA 17 november 1979
Length 3h4
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Horror
Rating67% 3.3567053.3567053.3567053.3567053.356705

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 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 home town and discovers the citizens are turning into vampires. It combines elements of both the vampire film and haunted house subgenres.



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The prologue shows a church in Guatemala in which a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Petrie "They've found us again." Knowing an evil presence is there, they decide to fight it.

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