Mark's parents are both killed by Barlow, though Mark escapes with the assistance of a local priest. Mears is attacked by Ralph and Danny's presumed-dead mother Marjorie Glick after she revives on a mortician's table, but Mears defends himself using a makeshift cross. Norton gradually realize what is happening to the town and attempt to stop it. However, Mark is a horror film buff and manages to repel Danny with a cross.Īs the vampirism spreads, Mears, Burke, and Dr. After his funeral, the undead Danny infects a gravedigger, Mike Ryerson, and attempts to prey on one of his schoolfriends, Mark Petrie. The Glick boy then returns as a vampire to claim his brother, Danny. Straker kidnaps a young boy, Ralphie Glick, as an offering to Barlow, while Barlow himself kills local realtor Larry Crockett. Mears and Straker are the main suspects as they are both new in town, but it eventually becomes clear that the crate contained Straker's business partner, Kurt Barlow - an ancient vampire who has come to Salem's Lot after sending Straker to make way for his arrival. Mears further recalls a traumatic childhood incident in which he broke into the house on a dare and saw Hubie's ghost.Īfter a large crate is delivered to the Marsten House one night, townspeople begin to disappear or die under strange circumstances. Mears tells Burke that he feels the Marsten House is somehow inherently evil, recalling that its original owner, Hubie Marsten – implied to have been a child molester – committed suicide there. Bill Norton, and reconnects with his kindly former school teacher, Jason Burke. Instead, Mears moves into a boarding house in town run by Eva Miller and develops a romantic relationship with a local woman, Susan Norton. Attempting to rent it, Mears finds that it has already been purchased by another new arrival in town, the mysterious Richard Straker, who is in the process of opening an antique shop with his oft-mentioned but never present business partner, Kurt Barlow. Mears intends to write a book about the Marsten House, an old, ominous property on a hilltop which has a reputation for being haunted. Two years earlier, Mears, a successful author, returns after a long absence to his small hometown of Salem's Lot, Maine. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Mark that "they've found us again." Knowing an evil presence is nearby, they decide to stay to fight it. Salem's Lot combines elements of the vampire film and haunted house subgenres of horror.Īt a church in Guatemala, a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American miniseries television adaptation of the 1975 horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.
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