(l to r) David Soul as writer Ben Mears and James Mason as Straker Bonnie Bedelia’s return as a vampire is peculiarly placed at the end of the story, which ends up oddly unbalancing the climax. There are a number of characters introduced and some of the plot strands are left uncompleted. It cuts several characters, compacts a couple into one. Certainly, you can understand where King is not too enthused as the mini-series makes a number of changes to the book. That notwithstanding, Salem’s Lot is one of the most underrated of Stephen King adaptations. King is equivocal about Salem’s Lot in particular the characterisation of Barlow. Stephen King says he was inspired back when he was teaching an English Lit course on Bram Sttoker’s Dracula (1897) and he and the students ended in a discussion of how Dracula would handle the modern world. The directorial chair eventually went to Tobe Hooper – Salem’s Lot was Hooper’s first Hollywood mainstream production after the cult success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
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Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead (1968), and Larry Cohen, director of It’s Alive (1974), associated with it.ġ979 brought a vampire movie revival, which also included the likes of the lavish Frank Langella remake of Dracula (1979), Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) remake, the killer bat movie Nightwing (1979), the disco film Nocturna: Dracula’s Granddaughter (1979), the Dracula spoof Love at First Bite (1979) and the sex comedy Dracula Blows His Cool (1979), proved the impetus to allow Salem’s Lot to get off the ground as a two-part tv mini-series.
For a time, Salem’s Lot dallied about as to whether it would be a theatrical film, with directorial names such as George A. Salem’s Lot (1975) was Stephen King’s second novel and this production was the second-ever screen adaptation of King’s work, following Brian De Palma’s highly successful version of Carrie (1976).
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