A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)

Director
Larry Cohen

Main cast
Michael Moriarty; Ricky Addison Reed; Samuel Fuller; Andrew Duggan; Ronee Blakley

Genres
Horror

Description
Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.


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