A Return to Salem's Lot

A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 American horror film co-written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan and Samuel Fuller.^[1] It is a sequel to the classic 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot.

Plot summary

Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son (Ricky Addison Reed) 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. As the trio escapes Salem's Lot, the vampires are left in the sun to burn along with their homes.

Cast

• Michael Moriarty as Joe Weber
• Ricky Addison Reed as Jeremy Weber
• Samuel Fuller as Van Meer
• Andrew Duggan as Judge Axel
• Evelyn Keyes as Mrs. Axel
• June Havoc as Aunt Clara
• Jill Gatsby as Sherry
• Ronee Blakley as Sally
• Tara Reid as Amanda

Release

The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros. in 1987. It was released on VHS by Warner Home Video the following year.^[2] The film was released to burn-on -demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection in 2010.^[3]

Reception

Critical reception has been mixed to negative.^[4] DVD Talk commented that the film was "Too interesting to miss, but regrettably not very scary".^[5]

See also

• 'Salem's Lot
• Vampire film

References

External links

• A Return to Salem's Lot at the Internet Movie Database
• A Return to Salem's Lot at AllMovie

Adaptations of works by Stephen King
Films	Single films The Shining (1980) Cujo (1983) The Dead Zone (1983) Christine (1983) Cat's Eye (1985) Silver Bullet (1985) The Running Man (1987) Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) Graveyard Shift (1990) Misery (1990) The Lawnmower Man (1992) Sleepwalkers (1992) Needful Things (1993) The Dark Half (1993) Dolores Claiborne (1995) Thinner (1996) The Night Flier (1997) The Green Mile (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Dreamcatcher (2003) Secret Window (2004) Riding the Bullet (2004) 1408 (2007) The Mist (2007) Dolan's Cadillac (2009) A Good Marriage (2014) Mercy (2014) Cell (2016) The Dark Tower (2017) It (2017) Gerald's Game (2017) Multiple films Carrie Carrie (1976) The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) Carrie (2002) Carrie (2013) Creepshow Creepshow (1982) Creepshow 2 (1987) Creepshow III (2007) Children of the Corn Disciples of the Crow (1983) Children of the Corn (1984) The Final Sacrifice (1992) Urban Harvest (1995) The Gathering (1996) Fields of Terror (1998) Isaac's Return (1999) Revelation (2001) Children of the Corn (2009) Genesis (2011) Different Seasons Stand by Me (1986) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Apt Pupil (1998) Firestarter Firestarter (1984) Rekindled (2002) Trucks Maximum Overdrive (1986) Trucks (1997) Pet Sematary Pet Sematary (1989) Pet Sematary Two (1992) The Mangler The Mangler (1995) The Mangler 2 (2002) The Mangler Reborn (2005)
Television	Single films, episodes, or miniseries "Gramma" (1986) "Sorry, Right Number" (1987) It (1990) The Tommyknockers (1993) The Stand (1994) The Langoliers (1995) The Shining (1997) Quicksilver Highway (1997) "The Revelations of Becka Paulson" (1997) Storm of the Century (1999) Stephen King's Desperation (2006) Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) Bag of Bones (2011) Big Driver (2014) Multiple films or miniseries Salem's Lot Salem's Lot (1979) A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) Salem's Lot (2004) Sometimes They Come Back Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998) Rose Red Rose Red (2002) The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) Series Golden Years (1991) The Dead Zone (2002–2007) Kingdom Hospital (2004) Haven (2010–2015) Under the Dome (2013–2015) 11.22.63 (2016)
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