Main Cast: Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Rick Reed, June Havoc
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 101 minutes
Plot
A divorced dad and son attempt to build on their newly resurrected relationship by heading back to pop's hometown in up-state Maine. When he gets there, he finds that all the townspeople have turned into 300-year-old vampires. Some say that director Larry Cohen intended the vampire community to be a parody of old-blooded Republicans who so often rule in small-town America. ~ All Movie Guide
Ronee Blakely - Sally; Evelyn Keyes - Mrs. Axel; Robert Burr - Dr. Fenton; Lynda A. Clark - Townsperson; Richard Duggan - Farmer Vampire; Rick Garcia - Cameraman; Jill Gatsby - Sherry; Jamie Gillis - Hobos; David Holbrook - Deputy; Ted Noose - Hobo; Brad Rijn - Clarence; James Dixon - Rains; Nancy Duggan - Farm Girl; Peter Hock - Farmer Drone; David Ardao - Car Salesman; Jacqueline Britton - Mrs.Fenton; Katja Crosby - Cathy; Stewart G. Day - Jeremiah; Kathleen Kichta - Vampire Wooman; Ron Milkie - Townsperson; Bobby Ramsen - Jungle Guide; Gordon Ramsey - Allen; Tara Reid - Amanda; Edward Shils - Farmer Vampire; Georgia Janelle Webb - Sarah
Credit
Richard Frisch - Art Director, Barry Shils - Associate Producer, Stephen King - Consultant/advisor, Danny Aiello III - Costume Designer, Catherine Zuber - Costume Designer, Timothy Lonsdale - First Assistant Director, Larry Cohen - Director, Armond Leibowitz - Editor, Larry Cohen - Executive Producer, Michael Minard - Composer (Music Score), Gigi Williams - Makeup, Daniel Pearl - Cinematographer, Paul Kurta - Producer, Steve Neill - Special Effects, Danny Aiello III - Stunts, Jery Hewitt - Stunts, Larry Cohen - Screenwriter, James Dixon - Screenwriter
A Return to Salem's Lot is an 1987horror film and in-name only sequel to 'Salem's Lot, written and directed by Larry Cohen. It jettisons Stephen King's original story and characters to explore the premise of a small town inhabited by vampires. The movie was filmed almost entirely in Newbury, Vermont and featured a number of native townspeople in small roles. Tara Reid was also cast, making her screen debut. The film was given an R rating for vampire violence, language, and nudity.
Plot
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.
