A young novelist returning home to salem's lot after many years is disturbed by the strange behaviour of its people. He begins to believe that the source of the trouble may be the eerie old marsten house that overlooks the town. Synopsis a new england village is plagued by vampirism in this blood curdling shocker based on the bestselling novel by stephen king, directed by tobe hooper poltergeist and starring david soul, james mason, bonnie bedelia, lew ayres and ed flanders. Originally released as a two part mini series, experience salem's lot in its original, uncut form as a 3 hour movie extravaganza! Year 1979 starring david soul, james mason, bonnie bedelia, lew ayres, ed flanders director tobe hooper sound eng subtitles eng, fr running time 184 minutes region region 2 subtitles czech danish english finnish italian norwegian polish portuguese spanish swedish release date 10 07 2006