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 Jerusalem'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 Ioved ones and begging to be let in. Only Ben and a few newfound alIies 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 FiIardi, who previousIy penned The Craft and FIatliners. Shot on-location 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 previously co-starred in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer fiIm. |