Possibly Stephen King was biting back a bit at those who may have told him as a young man to stop obsessing over Frankenstein movies and get his feet on the ground. Like the Phantom, he has spent enough time contemplating the works of Hammer Studios and Christopher Lee to know when it is time to lock your window and raise a crucifix. Only horror movie fan Mark Petrie knows enough to avoid being bit. Soon the neighborhood kids are dying from a strange anemia and they visit their loved ones in eerie scenes where they float in clouds of smoke just outside the windows. Mears describes the house at one point in a clear homage to Shirley Jackson’s opening to “The Haunting of Hill House.”īut fear not, we have here a story of vampires most foul. If it weren’t for the promos advertising it as a vampire film, people might have thought it was headed in the haunted house direction. It aired on CBS and starred David Soul as writer Ben Mears who has come back to his hometown of Salem’s Lot to write a book about the evil old Marsten House. I like seeing those old cars with space under the hood around the engine blocks and things like rotary landline phones. Apparently there is a new movie coming out and the TV series has had both a sequel in the ’80s and a more recent remake starring Rob Lowe.īut I, being a Phantom of the Video Store, found the 1970s version enjoyable, in part for the nostalgia.
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