Season 6: Episode 301 - MAKE/REMAKE: Salem’s Lot (1977/2004)

Salem’s Lot (1979)

 

Salem's Lot (also known as Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American miniseries television adaptation of the 1975 horror novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul and James Mason, the plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires. Salem's Lot combines elements of the vampire film and haunted house subgenres of horror.

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Salem’s Lot (2004)

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Salem's Lot is a 2004 American two-part television miniseries which first aired on TNT on June 20 and ended its run on June 21, 2004. It is the second television adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 vampire novel of the same name and a remake to the first version.  Although the novel and original miniseries were both set in the 1970s, this version updates the story to take place in the 2000s. The story is still set in a small Maine town, but the miniseries was actually shot on location at Creswick and Woodend, in Central Victoria, Australia.

 

We are joined by JM Robson, author of Three Little Words. 

 

Opening Credits; Introduction (.39); Background History (25.50); Salem’s Lot (1977) Film Trailer (26.52); The Original (30.10); Let's Rate (1:24.00); Introducing a Remake (1:29.39); Salem’s Lot (2004) Film Trailer (1.30.49); The Remake (1:31.48); How Many Stars (2:02.13); End Credits (2:17.11); Closing Credits (2:18.58)

 

Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 

Closing Credits:  Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Vesta Williams.  Taken from the album Vesta.  Copyright 1986 A&M Records

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 

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