A Return to Salem's Lot is an 1987 horror film and in-name only sequel to 'Salem's Lot, written and directed by Larry Cohen. It jettisons Stephen King's original story and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited by vampires. The movie was filmed almost entirely in Newbury, Vermont and featured a number of native townspeople in small roles. Tara Reid was also cast, making her screen debut. The film was given an R rating for vam...
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A Return to Salem's Lot is an 1987 horror film and in-name only sequel to 'Salem's Lot, written and directed by Larry Cohen. It jettisons Stephen King's original story and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited by vampires. The movie was filmed almost entirely in Newbury, Vermont and featured a number of native townspeople in small roles. Tara Reid was also cast, making her screen debut. The film was given an R rating for vampire violence, language, and nudity.
Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and...
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