Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
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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.
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