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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)
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Add to a movie listSalem'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.Actors
David Soul
(Ben Mears)
James Mason
(Richard K. Straker)
Lance Kerwin
(Mark Petrie)
Bonnie Bedelia
(Susan Norton)
Lew Ayres
(Jason Burke)
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