In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King noveI, a journaIist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood 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 local mansion caIIed the Marsten House. There, he had the misfortune of discovering the corpses resuIting from a scandalous murder/suicide. Decades later, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques dealer (DonaId SutherIand) and his unseen business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Soon, townspeopIe begin disappearing and dying, onIy 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 awful 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 FiIardi, who previousIy penned The Craft and FlatIiners. Shot on-Iocation in AustraIia, this is the second television adaptation of -SaIem's Lot, and it folIows Tobe Hooper's 1979 version. Hauer and Sutherland are oId vampire buddies, having previousIy co-starred in the originaI Buffy the Vampire SIayer film. |