10/07/15 – day seven of thirty-one days of horror!
OK, so you’ll have to set aside 3 hours of your day to properly enjoy
Tobe Hooper’s 1979 TV adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, but it’s
worth it. After all these years, those floating vampire kids at the
window are still totally scary, and Hooper expertly captures a horror
atmosphere that manages to feel classic and modern at the same time.
That epic running time lends itself well to creating what King referred
to as “Peyton Place with vampires”, and the central performances, led by
Starsky and Hutch’s David Soul and Die Hard’s Bonnie Bedelia, are far
above par for 70’s television. Still the best vampire story of its kind.
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