A Return to Salem's Lot
A Return to Salem's Lot
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| A Return to Salem's Lot | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Larry Cohen |
| Produced by | Larry Cohen Paul Kurta |
| Written by | Larry Cohen James Dixon |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Michael Minard |
| Edited by | Armond Leibowitz |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | September 11, 1987 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
Contents
1 Plot summary
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
4.1 Critical response
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Plot summary[edit]
Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son (Ricky Addison Reed). He 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[edit]
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- Brad Rjin as Clarence
- Janelle Webb as Sarah
- Robert Burr as Dr. Fenton
Production[edit]
Filming took place in Vermont.[2]
Release[edit]
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. The film was released to burn-on -demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection in 2010.[3]
Critical response[edit]
The Des Moines Register gave the film a zero-star rating, referring to it as "a festival of bad acting" and "quite possibly the most amateurishly made vampire movie in memory," adding: "Return, in fact, plays like a movie made by people who've heard about how movies are made but who've never seen one."[4] Jim Schembri of The Age noted that the film "outstay[s] its welcome after about five minutes."[5]
DVD Talk commented that the film was "Too interesting to miss, but regrettably not very scary."[6]
See also[edit]
- 'Salem's Lot
- Vampire film
References[edit]
^ "Kings of Horror Day 13: A Return to Salem's Lot". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved January 27, 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Farrell, John Aloysius. "Larry, Darryl, and Darryl are not typical vermonters". The Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. p. 42 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Return to Salem's Lot (DVD)". wbshop.com. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ "A festival of bad acting". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. September 24, 1987. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Schembri, Jim (December 29, 1988). "New releases". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "A Return to Salem's Lot (review)". DVD Talk. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
External links[edit]
A Return to Salem's Lot on IMDb
A Return to Salem's Lot at AllMovie
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Categories:
- English-language films
- 1987 films
- 1987 horror films
- 1980s sequel films
- American films
- American supernatural horror films
- American sequel films
- Films directed by Larry Cohen
- Films set in Maine
- Films shot in Vermont
- Funeral homes in fiction
- Newbury, Vermont
- Vampires in film
- Warner Bros. films
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