Salem's Lot (1979)

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A truly unfortunate adaptation. Was the head vampire supposed to be scary? Oh sorry--my bad.

October 14, 2002 | Comments (3)

Widgett Walls

Needcoffee.com

Not bad, but Hooper has done much better work

August 26, 2002

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Very frightening for a TV movie.

August 23, 2002

Jon Niccum

Lawrence Journal-World

• 1. Ben Mears: But you remember that even then, that house had a reputation for being a haunted house?
  2. Jason Burke: Every town has one.
  3. Ben Mears: I went up there once, on a dare. You know how kids are. I was sweating scared. I sneaked around. Got into the house.
  4. Jason Burke: What did you see?
  5. Ben Mears: Ghosts, everything; every sound, every shadow. I'm not sure what I saw. I think I saw Hubie Marsten hanging by his neck. His face green, his eyes puffed shut his hands livid. It was ghastly. And then he opened his eyes and he looked at me. He looked at me, and I took off and I ran. I ran as fast as I could. I've never forgotten that.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Ben Mears: I think that an evil house attracts evil men.
  2. Jason Burke: But if a house attracts evil men.
  3. Ben Mears: Why did it attract me?
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Ben Mears: Jason, do you believe a thing can be inherently evil?
  2. Jason Burke: I've seen trees that look like tortured spirits.
  3. Ben Mears: A house. The Marsten house for instance. Can it be evil in its stone foundations, in its wooden beams? In the glass of its windows? In the plaster of its ceilings? Evil.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Mike: (as a Vampire; in the rocking chair trying to hypnotize Jason) Look at me. Look at me, teacher.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Ben Mears: They've found us again. Another has found us.
  2. Mark Petrie: We have to go further.
  3. Ben Mears: Not yet.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)
• 1. Mark Petrie: (shouts) What did you do to her?
  2. Richard Straker: I've taken her to where she wished to go. To meet the man she came here to meet.
  – Submitted by Creep F (2 years ago)

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