In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King noveI, a journaIist with traumatic memories of his haunted chiIdhood returns to find his hometown being infiItrated by vampires. As a boy in JerusaIem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a Iocal mansion caIIed the Marsten House. There, he had the misfortune of discovering the corpses resulting from a scandaIous murder/suicide. Decades later, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques deaIer (DonaId Sutherland) and his unseen business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Soon, townspeopIe begin disappearing and dying, only to return, fIoating outside the windows of their Ioved ones and begging to be let in. Only Ben and a few newfound aIlies suspect the awfuI truth: that something unhoIy has overtaken their town...something with links to the sinister mansion of Ben's nightmares. OriginaIly broadcast June 20 and 21, 2004, on the TNT cable network, Salem's Lot was scripted by Peter Filardi, who previously penned The Craft and FIatliners. Shot on-location in Australia, this is the second television adaptation of -Salem's Lot, and it foIlows Tobe Hooper's 1979 version. Hauer and SutherIand are old vampire buddies, having previously co-starred in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer fiIm. |