Salem's Lot
Created by Tobe Hooper
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves. From TMDB
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Broadcast reviews for Salem's Lot were largely positive, with critics praising the miniseries's atmosphere, cinematography, Hooper's direction, and scares. Time Out called the film "surprisingly successful", highlighting the film's cinematography, atmosphere, and climax. Helen O'Hara of Empire awarded the film three out of five stars, stating that, although it "doesn’t quite nail the scale of the infection", the film's scares, special effects, pacing, and characters more than made up for it. As of April 2026, it holds an approval rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Director Tobe Hooper and a devilishly charismatic James Mason elevate…
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60 of 183 · most liked firstSalem's Lot (TV Mini Series 1979).
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Salem's Lot and got Fred Willard jump scared
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot (TV Mini Series 1979) Starring David Soul, James Mason and Lance Kerwin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot (TV Mini Series 1979).
neutral · AI labelView post →Horror radio/audio I always rec: -Quiet, Please -The Peoria Plague -Sheila Hodgson/BBC M.R.James pastiches "Stories I Have Tried To Write" -BBC Salem's Lot adaptation -BBC American Werewolf in London -Suspense-The Hitchhiker (earliest) -BBC Weird Tales series -Tales From the Crypt-Keith David ep
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot (TV Mini Series 1979) Starring David Soul, James Mason and Lance Kerwin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 45th anniversary to my personal favourite Vampire story of all time, Tobe Hooper's truly chilling movie/mini series adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Salem's Lot". 🖤🦇⚰️🩸🪦
positive · AI labelView post →ROCKING CHAIRS IN HORROR: Is there a scarier piece of furniture than the simple rocking chair? Salem's Lot, Shadows series 2, The Waltons' poltergeist episode, and the Devil Baby storyline from Soap would suggest so. The tip of a huge, rocking iceberg.
neutral · AI labelView post →We dropped some patreon backers this month. If you're interested in bonus episodes on 2024's SALEM'S LOT or the 1980s classic LADYHAWKE in the next few weeks, come on in! Also MICHAEL ON MICHAEL, the show where Michael Lutz reviews the films of Michael Bay. www.patreon.com/c/rangedtouch
neutral · AI labelView post →SUPPORTING ACTOR SUNDAY #supportingactorsunday KENNETH McMILLAN (1932-1989) Great American actor who added gravity to every show he was in. SERPICO. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE. SALEM'S LOT. EYEWITNESS. RAGTIME. DUNE. Died far too young. 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →lol rando person showing up in a thread (doesn't follow me, I don't follow him) to tell me Salem's Lot is not a book but a show okay then weirdest sea lion ever
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #281 "Salem's Lot" (Tobe Hooper/1979) For a 2 part TV mini series that aired on CBS, this one is incredibly creepy and filled with atmosphere. Tobe Hooper was on a roll for awhile there. Check it out.
positive · AI labelView post →What fiction book (or series of books) have you read more than three times? (h/t to @tadethompson.bsky.social for this) For me: Salem's Lot A Head Full of Ghosts Moby Dick The Hobbit Night's Master The Tombs of Atuan The Twisted Ones
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot first look images preview the long-awaited Stephen King adaptation, coming to Max later this year. > A batch of first look images have arrived to promote the latest adaptation of Salem's Lot, coming to Max in October Delayed due to COVID-19 and the SAG strike, the third film adaptation of Stephen King's horror story heads straight to Max in October. The UK will still get a theatrical release (maybe because we don'tengl have Max).
neutral · AI labelView post →Join us for a chat about the latest version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot in our latest #podcast excerpt vid. We talk about the original mini-series & sequel as well as other remakes, contrasting this new version to see how it holds up! #filmsky #movies #horror www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHQ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot (1979 480p). Salem's Lot is a 1979 American horror television miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper, and adapted by Paul Monash from the 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. It stars David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia and Lew Ayres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem%27s_Lot_(1979_miniseries) 
neutral · AI labelView post →Nobody asked, but here are my five current favorite King books. The list might look different tomorrow, but for today... 1. IT 2. THE DARK TOWER series 3. THE STAND 4. 'SALEM'S LOT 5. 11/22/63
neutral · AI labelView post →I cross bred Outland and Salem's Lot for a series of Traveller games in high school. My favorite moment was a player exclaiming indignantly "Vampires can't use shotguns!"
neutral · AI labelView post →My early Spooky Season `25 viewing continues tonight with Salem's Lot (1979), the mini-series directed by Tobe Hooper, based on the novel by Stephen King. I'm currently wading through it (it's over 3 hours long), but it's shockingly good. Never seen it before. Thought it would be cheesy / low-rent.
positive · AI labelView post →a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. - 1979 American TV two-part vampire miniseries based on the 1975 horror novel 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, next watch
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot. It was forbidden, but on TV, so I'd flip channels to watch it in 30 second clips. It was far more terrifying that way, as I found out later in life; watched all the way through, it was a fairly mediocre film.
negative · AI labelView post →Salem’s Lot (1979) [PIC]. Crosspost: see [email protected] for pictures and posters from all kinds of movies! 'Salem's Lot is a miniseries / movie about vampires based on a novel and short story by Stephen King. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem's_Lot_(1979_miniseries) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Salem's_Lot > In the United States, Salem's Lot aired in two feature-length installments on CBS in November 1979, while internationally it was released as a two-hour theatrical…
unlabelledView post →"A good blend of 'Salem's Lot and IT, but feels very distinct in its own voice." So says the latest Goodreads review of @toddkeisling.com's DEVIL's CREEK, available now in a new glossy Bad Hand edition. www.goodreads.com/book/show/66...
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP to actor David Soul. He is best remembered from the popular tv series Starsky & Hutch, the fantastic tv movie, "Salem's Lot" and his #1 hit song, "Don't Give Up on Us". Mr. Soul was 80.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've most enjoyed reading tons of Stephen King for the first time this year: 'Salem's Lot,' the whole Dark Tower series, 'Under the Dome,' and '11/22/63.' (Before this year, I'd only read 'Carrie' and 'It.') He's a gifted craftsman with real heart and flashes of genius. bsky.app/profile/adam...
neutral · AI labelView post →James Wan's vampire movie watchlist. James Wan is a horror director and co-creator of the Saw, Insidious, and Conjuring franchises. He was also executive producer on the Salem's Lot remake for (HBO) Max. In an attempt to hype up the release for Salem's Lot, he posted this watchlist of vampire movies. And honestly... it's really good. There are a lot of obvious classics but also some great obscure choices as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →New 'Salem's Lot' movie sinks its teeth into Max on October 3, 2024. > The long-awaited movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is coming exclusively to Max this Halloween season. > >Announced today, Salem’s Lot premieres on Max on October 3, 2024. > >Stay tuned for the official trailer, coming very soon… > >Stephen King had recently tweeted praise for the film. He wrote earlier this year, “I’ve seen the new SALEM’S LOT and it’s quite…
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Moby Dick One film: The Wickerman One album: Tori Amos - Under the Pink One TV show: Salem's Lot (or Midnight Mass)
neutral · AI labelView post →Is anyone going to watch that Salem's Lot show?
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of 'Salem's Lot' by @stephenking.bsky.social #Books #Reading #Fiction #Horror #StephenKing #BookSky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
positive · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with 1: Movie Book TV Show Album Comic Game The Brides of Dracula Salem's Lot Mystery Science Theater 3000 Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden DIE Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
neutral · AI labelView post →31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN Day 13 MIDNIGHT MASS, Mike Flanagan's homage to vampires and 'Salem's Lot, is one of those rare TV series that fires on all cylinders each episode.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a reminder that we came *this* close to getting a follow-up TV series to Tobe Hooper's SALEM'S LOT that would have followed Ben Mears & Mark Petrie as traveling vampire/monster hunters. (I bet we'd have actually met that San Francisco-based occult expert friend of Ben's in an episode!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watched the new Salem's Lot. Is it the best ever? No. But it was entertaining and we'll always have the book, the two mini series, and the Larry Cohen sequel. I had fun with it, especially with the full 3rd act.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's Friday, and you KNOW what that means. I logged SALEM'S LOT before I took this so that may show up next week, depending on how many movies I get through. In the meantime--some weird choices, as usual! #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, he did it before! MIDNIGHT MASS a as basically his "I wanna do SALEM'S LOT" show.
neutral · AI labelView post →A is for Andorians. First appearing in the 2nd series episode 'Journey to Babel'. This particular Andorian is the Ambassador Shras played by Reggie Nalder. Reggie's face might be familiar to a few of you as the vampire Kurt Barlow in the TV film of Salem's Lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have it on DVD...but since The Salem's Lot tv series was on Shudder I thought I would put it on. Why not, right? Such a great adaptation
positive · AI labelView post →We're watching the new Salem's Lot movie, never read the book or seen the series
neutral · AI labelView post →·Inktober Drawing 12 Reggie Nalder as "Barlow" in SALEM'S LOT(1979) I'm sorry to say I've never seen the mini series! I'll have to see if it's streaming anywhere! #Inktober #inktober2024 #salemslot #stephenking #hunt103 #pentelpocketbrush
neutral · AI labelView post →Max celebrates Halloween with “No Sleep October” collection, including 'Salem's Lot,' 'MaXXXine,' and 'Trap'. > October is here! Which means peak Halloween season is now underway, and that includes the launch of “No Sleep October,” a month-long celebration for Halloween and horror fans alike at Max. Max’s brand new exclusive films, a best-in-class horror library, imaginative curations, and specially designed art featuring iconic stars will keep you busy all month long. > > Look for new Max…
neutral · AI labelView post →Nobody ever talks about this but Salem's Lot is not a show or a book it is a tea towel.
neutral · AI labelView post →hmmm 1970's Salem's Lot show and then Midnight Mass sounds like the perfect Easter Sunday viewing
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Salem's Lot 1979 directed by Tobe Hooper. #FirstWatch in 4k. Love this mini series since was a kid terrified of the kid vampire at the window. Watched it MANY times. 4k excellent best it's looked. Great cast Perfect pace as we get to know and care for the characters.
positive · AI labelView post →17th November 1979, CBS release the first part of Salem's Lot the TV series.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite example of this is in SALEM'S LOT, where he describes a complex series of calculations and deductions about the possible approaches and outcomes of facing up to a bully, and then notes "these thoughts went through (character)'s mind in approximately three quarters of a second"
neutral · AI labelView post →Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-05: Despicable Me and Bad Boys' "fourquels" top the charts, while 4K's slice of the pie decreases to less than 10%!. **Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs** 1. Despicable Me 4 2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die 3. Longlegs 4. Inside Out 2 5. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 6. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 7. The Fall Guy 8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 9. Bad Boys 4-Movie Collection 10. The Boy and the Heron 11. Dune: Part Two 12. The Lord of the Rings: The…
neutral · AI labelView post →Possibly either The Clifton House Mystery TV show or the Armchair Thriller title sequence but then surpassed by Danny Glick at the window (Salem's Lot)
neutral · AI labelView post →In the fifth book of his Dark Tower series, Wolves of the Calla, there's a 150-200 page passage that's a de facto sequel to Salem's Lot that's one of my favorite things King has written.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't normally have an excuse to show off my stupid big version of Salem's Lot so I'll take what I can get
neutral · AI labelView post →Salem's Lot, Midnight Mass, Red Tide, all great creepy vampire tv mini series in small towns
neutral · AI labelView post →All King's best adaptions are for short stories. The Body, Green Mile, Shawshank, The Mist... His novels are so thick they lose a lot in translation to a 2 hour movie. IT, The Stand, Salem's Lot, etc. They tried to do an interconnected TV series with Castle Rock.
neutral · AI labelView post →speaking of vampires on TV, by the end of the '70s Tobe Hooper would make a TV mini-series adaptation of the seminal King novel Salem's Lot, this had actually been considered for a possible vampire hunting SERIES following the 2 leads from the book but the ratings weren't high enough
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking forward to Nosferatu. Loved the original silent one. The 1932 Dracula is also a favorite because Bela Lugosi is so damned good. The Salem's Lot mini-series from the 1970s is also top notch.
positive · AI labelView post →Let's connect! My current interests #promosky 🎮 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 🎮 - Mars After Midnight 🤼 - Wrestling (AEW!) 📺 - What We Do In the Shadows 📺 - Columbo 🎵 - Charm - Clairo 🎵 - Loss of Life - MGMT 📖 - 'Salem's Lot 🎙️ - Dough Boys 🎙️ - The Insert Credit Show
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, really liked Talk to Me. V/H/S Beyond is alright as well. Salem's Lot is awful. Quiet Place Day One was surprisingly decent. Haven't got around to watching The Substance yet, but I've heard good things.
negative · AI labelView post →Last night we watched Hayride to Hell and the new Salem's Lot movie. The rest of the week was spent still trying to get thru Grimm.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rather enjoyed Salem's Lot. It has a visually striking style and the cast is really good. Shame it wasn't a TV Show because 2 hours just isn't enough time to fit the book.
positive · AI labelView post →'Salem's Lot is amazing, not at all what I thought it was going to be which I suppose was the Father Donald Callahan show, we ain't even met him yet lol
positive · AI labelView post →it's so funny to me that Peyton Place, a book and tv series now forgotten, was the spark that inspired both Salem's Lot and Twin Peaks
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