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Salem's Lot

★ 6.2 13K votes 2004–2004 1 seasons · 2 episodes Ended TNT
Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 9/10Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 7/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Rob LoweAndre BraugherDonald SutherlandSamantha MathisRobert MammoneDan Byrd
Starring
Rob LoweAndre BraugherDonald SutherlandSamantha MathisRobert MammoneDan Byrd
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About

"Small-town dread simmering into full-blown vampire horror"

A writer returns to his sleepy New England hometown to confront childhood memories, only to find a mysterious antiques dealer has moved into the notorious house on the hill. As neighbors start vanishing and turning pale, the town's quiet routines curdle into something far worse. This is a slow-burn adaptation of Stephen King's vampire novel, more interested in dread and small-town decay than jump scares. It's atmospheric and patient, carried by a strong cast, though its miniseries pacing means it lingers before it bites.

Watch it for

the slow accumulation of dread as an ordinary town succumbs to something ancient and hungry.

Maybe skip if

you want fast scares rather than a patient, atmosphere-driven horror story.

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Miniseries2004
6.330923h 1m
On the surface, Jerusalem's Lot appears to be a picture-perfect small town, right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. But there is something evil festering in this Maine hamlet, and it seems to be emanating from the ominous Marsten House. Ben Mears returns to Salem's Lot to wrestle with the demons of his past by writing a book about the town and its inhabitants. As a child, Ben had a horrifying experience in the house that left him emotionally scarred. But Ben soon discovers that he is not the only newcomer to town. An antique dealer named Richard Straker has also arrived to open up a new shop with his silent partner, Kurt Barlow. Before long, strange things begin to happen. A series of mysterious deaths and disappearances eventually lead Ben, waitress Susan Norton, high school teacher Matt Burke and Father Donald Callahan on a quest to uncover the terrifying truth. What they find challenges their notions about the nature of evil, as horrors both human and inhuman threaten to destroy the town's way of life.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Episode #1.16.3
15891 min
2Episode #1.26.3
15190 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rob Lowe Ben Mears
Andre Braugher Matt Burke
Donald Sutherland Richard Straker
Samantha Mathis Susan Norton
Robert Mammone Dr. James Cody
Dan Byrd Mark Petrie
Rutger Hauer Kurt Barlow
James Cromwell Father Donald Callahan
Andy Anderson Charlie Rhodes
Robert Grubb Larry Crockett

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