Salem's Lot Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 4133

Average Rating: 2.7/4

# of Ratings: 106

Theatrical Release Date: 11/17/1979

Language: English

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: Tobe Hooper

Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb

Plot: A writer returns to his home town to investigate the eerie mansion that haunted him as a child. Meanwhile, a supernatural illness plagues the town, leaving the victims weak and bloodless. Based on the Stephen King novel. -- Topher

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Rating of
2/4

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 07/06/2020

"Salem's Lot" feels more like something from the world of Scooby-Doo than the mind of Stephen King. The acting is caricatury , the atmosphere is stale, and the 3-hour runtime leaves so many dull spots that you'll just want to skip ahead to the good parts. But there's not very many of those I'm afraid.

Rating of
3/4

Matthew Brady - wrote on 10/11/2016

Salem’s Lot freaked me out as a kid. When I watched this, I was home alone on Halloween night with all the lights off. Now that's how you should spend your Halloween night. However, Salem’s Lot dose have it's slow moments that kinda dragged the run time for me, but it's still a pretty effective and horrifying TV movie that still gets to me today.

Rating of
3.5/4

Unknown - wrote on 08/05/2011

One of the better Stephen King adaptations. It's a made-for-t.v. movie that is actually legitimately scary.

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Rating of
3.5/4

You'll enjoy Mr. Barlow. And he'll enjoy you.

gideon43 - wrote on 05/20/2010

Salem's Lot really shouldn't work. It doesn't have a lot going for it. For starters it was a made for TV production which in the 1970s meant no profanity, sex or over the top violence. It also meant a limited budget and other constraints such as regular cliffhangers adapted for TV ads.
It had a pretty mediocre cast (David Soul as lead, come on) and a pretty mediocre director in Tobe Hooper.
Hooper's career can hardly be classed as legendary, his most famous movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is highly overrated although it takes plaudits for having the most enticing title in Film History, Poltergeist (1981) would probably be Hooper's second most famous movie but if the urban legend is to be believed, Steven Spielberg was on hand for most of the directing duties as Hopper was …

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