United States

The ultimate in terror!
From the pen of Stephen King, the world's foremost horror writer, (Carrie, The Shining and Firestarter), comes the nightmarish tale of Salem's Lot. Novelist Ben Mears (David Soul) returns to the town of his childhood to exorcise the ghosts of the past, unaware that an ancient evil has unleashed itself upon the Lot... One by one the people are disappearing; Salem's Lot is dying. Ben fears that the answer lies in the old Marsten house with its mysterious new occupants, the sinister Mr. Straker (James Mason) and the elusive Mr. Barlow. Acclaimed horror director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Funhouse, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) chillingly combines tension and shocks as Ben is forced to fight the ultimate battle between Good and Evil, where the stakes are greater than life itself....