Salem Must Burn (film)
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German title | Salem must burn |
Original title | Salem's Lot |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1979 |
length | 183 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Tobe Hooper |
script | Paul Monash |
production | Richard Kobritz |
music | Harry Sukman |
camera | Jules Brenner |
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Tom Pryor Carroll Sax |
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Burning must Salem (alternative title: Der Schreck im Marsten-Haus , original title: Salem's Lot ) is an American miniseries from 1979. The horror film directed by Tobe Hooper is based on the novel Burning Must Salem by Stephen King .
action
The prologue shows a church in Guatemala where a man and a boy, "Ben Mears" and "Mark Petrie", are bottling holy water. When one of the bottles starts to glow, the man says: "You have found us again." The action begins two years earlier in Maine , USA : After many years, the writer Ben Mears returns to his native city Jerusalem's Lot ( called Salem's Lot by the locals) to write a book about the Marsten house.
But the house has already been sold to a mysterious antique dealer named Richard Straker. He wants to open an antique shop in town with his partner Kurt Barlow.
Scary incidents soon ensue: people disappear or die of anemia. Ben knows that it can only be due to the Marsten house and that evil in the form of vampires is in Salem's Lot. Ben Mears and Mark Petrie eventually flee to Latin America, but the vampires take their tracks.
background
There is a long TV version of Brennen muss Salem as well as a feature film version that has been streamlined for the European market, but with some more explicit scenes.
In Germany, the feature film version was released on video on August 8, 1985. The full TV version was first broadcast on November 12, 1985 on Sat.1 . Warner Home Video released the long (183 minutes) version on Blu-ray for the first time in Germany on September 22, 2016.
Reviews
"Poor scary film that at times cleverly combines set pieces of the genre without being able to unite them into a dense story."
“Annoying shocker to vampires and other bad guys; excellent Mason as a sinister antique dealer and Nalder as the chief vampire. "
Aftermath
In 1987 Larry Cohen shot a feature film sequel entitled Salem II - The Return freely based on motifs from King's novel. In 2004 a remake was made under the title Salem's Lot - Salem must burn .
literature
- Stephen King: Salem has to burn. Roman (original title: Salem's Lot ). German by Peter Robert. Zsolnay, Vienna 2006, 734 pages, ISBN 3-552-05381-6
Web links
- Burning must Salem in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Burning must Salem atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999. Penguin, London 1998, p. 784.
- ↑ a b Salem must burn in the lexicon of international film .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 721.