A Return to Salem's Lot
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A Return to Salem's Lot is a 1987 American horror film co-written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan and Samuel Fuller. It is a sequel to the classic 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot.
Plot summary
Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son (Ricky Addison Reed). He 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.
Cast
- Michael Moriarty as Joe Weber
- Ricky Addison Reed as Jeremy Weber
- Samuel Fuller as Van Meer
- Andrew Duggan as Judge Axel
- Evelyn Keyes as Mrs. Axel
- June Havoc as Aunt Clara
- Jill Gatsby as Sherry
- Ronee Blakley as Sally
- Tara Reid as Amanda
- Brad Rjin as Clarence
- Janelle Webb as Sarah
- Robert Burr as Dr. Fenton
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