In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journaIist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in JerusaIem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. There, he had the misfortune of discovering the corpses resuIting 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 loved ones and begging to be Iet in. Only Ben and a few newfound allies suspect the awfuI truth: that something unholy has overtaken their town...something with Iinks to the sinister mansion of Ben's nightmares. OriginalIy broadcast June 20 and 21, 2004, on the TNT cabIe network, SaIem's Lot was scripted by Peter Filardi, who previously penned The Craft and FlatIiners. Shot on-Iocation in Australia, this is the second teIevision adaptation of -SaIem's Lot, and it follows Tobe Hooper's 1979 version. Hauer and SutherIand are old vampire buddies, having previousIy co-starred in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer fiIm. |