Movie Information
Overall Rank: 4146
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.
Full Movie Reviews
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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