Sunday 23 October 2011

Salem's Lot

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Year:1979
Country of origin:USA
Director:Tobe Hooper
Genre:Vampires
Starring:David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Rating:3/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079844/
Tagline:The ultimate in terror!
Favourite line:"Bill! Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil. Bill!"

Bloated, 3 hour version of one of Stephen King's best books, this clocks in at a mighty three hours.
Originally broadcast as a TV miniseries, this has now mutated into an epic movie and, whilst entertaining enough, Jesus it drags.

David Soul, of Starsky and Hutch fame, plays our hero, a writer who moves to the town of Salem's Lot (a contraction of Jerusalem's Lot) to, erm, write about it, and is disturbed by the bizarre behaviour and goings on involving its people.
Convinced that the epicentre of the 'wayerdness' is an old house, he becomes more and more obsessed by the place.
Throw in a sinsiter Englishman, played by James Mason in great form, who may or may not be a child abductor, and some truly chilling moments (the child vampire scratching at the window, the first appearance of the main vampire) and this is an enjoyable, if overly long horror fest.

Directed by Tobe 'Chain Saw Massacre' Hooper, this is a must see for all horror buffs.

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