Watch A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) Free Online

Release Date: 1987

Cast: June Havoc, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Michael Moriarty, Evelyn Keyes, Ricky Addison Reed, Jill Gatsby, Tara Reid

Categories: Movies, Horror, Horror Comedy

A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and... MORE

A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story. As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake. As the trio escapes Salem's Lot, the vampires are left in the sun to burn along with their homes. The film is an in-name-only sequel to 'Salem's Lot as it jettisons Stephen King's original story and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited LESS