Salem's Lot

Name: Salem's Lot
Genre: Horror
Released: 1979
Rating: 6.8

1979 1 season 2 episodes

★ 6.8 (31,908 votes) Bottom 24%

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Salem's Lot

1979 1 season 2 eps

★ 6.8 (32K) Bottom 24%

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S1E2 7.2

Part 2

Ben Mears must enter the grim Marsten House to cleanse Salem's Lot of its monstrous curse.

S1E1 7.1

Part 1

Intent on writing a book on the sinister Marsten House, Ben Mears returns to his peaceful hometown and finds that two new mysterious tenants live in the house.

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