A Return to Salem's Lot
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 King's 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.
Plot
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 concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story. As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi-hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake.
Criticism
Stephen King did not comment on this movie. Many feel this movie is a sequel in name only, as its story line does not fit into the original novel. However, King did not remove his credit or initiate any legal action against Larry Cohen.
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