A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
- Directed by
- Larry Cohen
- Genre
- horror film, vampire film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 317 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An anthropologist and his son go to a small town where they find vampires have taken over. The vampires are portrayed as ordinary Americans who have lived there for centuries.
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What happens
A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 American vampire film co-written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Evelyn Keyes, and June Havoc. A theatrical sequel to the 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot, the film follows an anthropologist and his son who encounter supernatural incidents and vampirism in the small town of Jerusalem's Lot. Cohen had previously written a screenplay for the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries that had been rejected by Warner Bros. Pictures at the time. Years later, the studio approached Cohen to write and direct a low-budget feature for them; he proposed a sequel to Salem's Lot. While writing the screenplay, Cohen was inspired by Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, and sought to rework familiar tropes of the vampire film, presenting the vampires as typical Americans descended from Europe, having fled their native country to establish a colony in America in the 1600s. Filmed in Vermont in late 1986, A Return to Salem's Lot was screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Market before receiving a limited theatrical release from Warner Bros. in the fall of that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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