A Return to Salem's Lot
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| Directed by | Larry Cohen |
| Produced by | Larry Cohen Paul Kurta |
| Written by | Larry Cohen James Dixon |
| Starring | Michael Moriarty Andrew Duggan Samuel Fuller Evelyn Keyes June Havoc |
| Music by | Michael Minard |
| Editing by | Armond Leibowitz |
| Release date(s) | September 11, 1987 |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen.
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[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Moriarty as Joe Weber
- Samuel Fuller as Van Meer
- Andrew Duggan as Judge Axel
- Evelyn Keyes as Mrs. Axel
- June Havoc as Aunt Clara
- Jill Gatsby as Sherry
- Ricky Addison Reed as Jeremy Weber
- James Dixon as Rains
- David Holbrook as Assistant
- Katja Crosby as Cathy
- Tara Reid as Amanda
- Brad Rijn as Clarence
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The film is an in-name-only sequel to 'Salem's Lot as it jettisons Stephen King's original story and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited almost entirely by vampires. Cohen had previously written an adaptation of King's Salem's Lot novel in the 1970s, but it was deemed unsatisfactory by the producers and the original 1979 miniseries was ultimately adapted by Paul Monash and directed by Tobe Hooper.
A Return to Salem's Lot was mostly filmed in Newbury, Vermont and featured a number of native townspeople in small roles.
An 11 year old Tara Reid was also cast, making her screen debut.
[edit] Release
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros in 1987. It was released on VHS by Warner Home Video the following year.[1]
The film was released to on demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection in 2010.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Company Credits for A Return to Salem's Lot". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093855/companycredits. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
- ^ "Return to Salem's Lot (DVD)". wbshop.com. http://www.wbshop.com/Return-to-Salems-Lot-A/1000155824,default,pd.html. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
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