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Salem's Lot (1979 Mini-Series Version) - Tobe Hooper

Stephen King's best selling vampire novel was turned into a two-part mini-series that aired ages ago on the ABC network.  Ben Mears, wandering for two years after the death of his wife in a vehicular accident, finds himself back in the town he was born in, Salem's Lot. His family moved away when he was only eleven.  Even then he seemed destined to be an author.  Now he has two books published and he is going to write his third about the sinister Marsten house up on the hill overlooking town.  Ben believes that evil can inhabit an object like a house and that the Marsten house has always drawn evil men to own it.  Now a suave antiques dealer named Richard Straker is living in the house and all does not seem normal with this man, and more especially his business partner, the enigmatic Kurt Barlow.  A boy goes missing and soon one by one there is an epidemic running through the town of sudden anaemia, mysterious loss of blood.  It's up to Ben and whomever he can find to help him to discover what is going on and how to bring an end it before it's too late.

This is the first Stephen King TV mini-series.  It is directed by horror master Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist).  The locations are excellent and the sets, particularly the Marsten house, are amazing.  They add a real depth to the film as well as playing parts as almost characters within the film.  The direction is top notch with a lot of mood and atmosphere.  The musical score is good and accentuates many scenes nicely.  The pacing is a little slow at times and can be a drag sometimes through re-watching the film.  The lighting is good and used to accentuate some of the scenes giving them much more oomph than they might have otherwise.  Most complaints regarding the film stem from the decision to turn the speaking Dracula-like head vampire of the novel into the hissing Nosferatu-type vampire that he is in the mini-series.  That aside the film is pretty faithful to the novel.  Overall this is a good mini-series and a great bit of Stephen King on film.

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