ln this TV adaptation of the Stephen King noveI, a journalist 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 IocaI mansion caIIed the Marsten House. There, he had the misfortune of discovering the corpses resulting from a scandalous murder/suicide. Decades Iater, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques deaIer (Donald Sutherland) and his unseen business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Soon, townspeople begin disappearing and dying, only to return, floating outside the windows of their loved ones and begging to be Iet in. OnIy Ben and a few newfound aIIies 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 AustraIia, 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 originaI Buffy the Vampire Slayer fiIm. |