A Return to Salem's Lot

A Return to Salem's Lot

American Vampires as only Stephen King could create them.

Rating

1.0 (1)

Release Date

9/11/1987

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

Anthropologist Joe Weber takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot, unaware of its vampire population. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they seek Weber to write a bible for them.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue

-

Homepage

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A horror-comedy that treats vampires as a perfectly mundane problem lurking in small-town Americana. It's equal parts genuinely eerie and wryly tongue-in-cheek about the banality of evil.

Mood

UnsettlingAbsurd

Themes

SurvivalFamilyCorruption

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticStylized genre

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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