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Salem's lot (2024)


 English

Salem's Lot is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, based on the 1975 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, Bill Camp, Jordan Preston Carter, Nicholas Crovetti, Spencer Treat Clark, William Sadler, and Pilou Asbæk. It is the first feature film adaptation of the book, preceded by miniseries versions from 1979 and from 2004. The plot centers on a writer who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration, only to discover the presence of a vampire.

'Salem's Lot was announced in 2019 and shot in 2021, with additional photography in 2022. The film's release was delayed multiple times. The film had its world premiere as the opening film at the Beyond Fest on September 25, 2024, and was released on Max on October 3, 2024. The film received mixed reviews from critics. 

 

Español

Salem's Lot es una película estadounidense de terror sobrenatural y vampiros de 2024 escrita y dirigida por Gary Dauberman, basada en la novela de 1975 El misterio de Salem's Lot de Stephen King. La película está protagonizada por Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Pilou Asbæk, Alfre Woodard, Alexander Ward y William Sadler.

La trama se centra en un escritor que regresa a su ciudad natal de Jerusalem's Lot en busca de inspiración, sólo para descubrir la presencia de un vampiro. El largometraje es producida por New Line Cinema, Atomic Monster y Vertigo Entertainment y distribuida por Warner Bros. Pictures, que lo lanzará en una fecha no especificada en 2024. 

Italiano

Salem's Lot è un film horror del 2024 diretto da Gary Dauberman.

La pellicola è l'adattamento cinematografico dell'omonimo romanzo di Stephen King, già riadattato per il piccolo schermo nel 1979 (Le notti di Salem), nel 2004 (Salem's Lot) e nel 1987 con l'apocrifo I vampiri di Salem's Lot (A Return to Salem's Lot).

Жребий (фильм, 2024)

«Жребий» (англ. Salem's Lot, другой вариант перевода — «Салемов удел») — американский фильм ужасов о сверхъестественном режиссёра Гари Добермана, основанный на одноимённом романе Стивена Кинга. В фильме снимались Льюис Пуллман, Макензи Ли[англ.], Билл Кэмп, Спенсер Трит Кларк, Элфри Вудард и Уильям Сэдлер.

Премьера фильма в кинотеатрах США должна была состояться 21 апреля 2023 года, но его релиз был перенесён[1]. 3 октября 2024 года фильм вышел на стриминговом сервисе Max. 11 октября 2024 года фильм выйдет в кинотеатрах Великобритании и Ирландии.

 


 

 

 

American Vampire (2010-?)

English

The series will explore notions of vampire evolution and trace the bloodline of a new kind of vampire, an American species, with new powers and characteristics, through various decades of American history.
The first story arc (issues #1-5) begins in 1925, from the point of view of an aspiring actress in L.A. and of a writer at a book conference due to the reediting of his book Bad Blood. Here, the author claims that his work which has been long considered a fictional western/terror story is actually based on true events which he has either witnessed or has collected reliable information on. The second story arc (issues #6-9) follows the chief of police of Las Vegas in 1936.

The series imagines vampires as a population made up of many different secret species, and charts moments of vampire evolution and inter-species conflict throughout history. The focus of the series is a new American bloodline of vampires, born in the American West in the late 1800's. The first of this new species is a notorious outlaw named Skinner Sweet, who wakes from death, after being infected, to find he has become a new kind of vampire, something stronger and faster than what came before, impervious to sunlight, with a new set of strengths and weaknesses. The series goes on to track his movements through various decades of American history - along with the movements of his first and only known progeny: Pearl Jones, a young woman working as a struggling actress in the 1920's silent film industry when she is attacked by a coven of European vampires hiding in Hollywood. Sweet saves her (uncharacteristically) by giving her his blood, thereby turning her into an American vampire like him, at which point she seeks revenge on the classic vampires who attacked her in life. The complicated and charged relationship Jones has with Sweet is another focus of the series.
The first five issues featured two stories — one by Snyder and the other by Stephen King, both drawn by Rafael Albuquerque.[3] As of the sixth issue, Scott Snyder has taken over as sole writer.[4] In its second year of publication, American Vampire spawned a spin-off mini-series titled American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, drawn by Sean Murphy, which focuses on the case files of the V.M.S., the vampire-hunting organization of the series' mythology.


Español

Un nuevo vampiro para un nuevo siglo. Astuto y despiadado como una serpiente de cascabel, Skinner Sweet tiene fama de ser terco e intratable. Es el primer vampiro concebido en tierra americana, pero no es la habitual criatura de la noche. Es más fuerte, más fiero y el sol renueva sus energías… Sweet es el primero de una nueva raza de chupasangres: el vampiro americano.  
45 años después de alzarse de su tumba Sweet se encuentra en Los Ángeles en los años 20, donde los jóvenes y bellos se ven atraídos como polillas por las luces de Hollywood. Sin embargo, hay algo más que simples humanos acechando allí, como la joven actriz Pearl Jones está a punto de descubrir. Cuando su sueño de convertirse en una estrella de cine se transforma en una pesadilla sangrienta, Sweet le da su única oportunidad de sobrevivir, así como el poder de vengarse



The Dark Tower VII : The Dark Tower (2004)






English


Beginning where book six left off, Jake Chambers and Father Callahan battle the evil infestation within the Dixie Pig, a vampire lounge in New York City featuring roast human flesh and doors to other worlds. After fighting off and destroying numerous "Low-Men" and Type One Vampires, Callahan sacrifices himself to let Jake survive. In the other world, in Fedic, Mia, her body now physically separated from Susannah Dean, gives birth to Mordred Deschain, the biological son of Roland Deschain and Susannah. The Crimson King is also a "co-father" of this prophetic child somehow, so it is not surprising when "baby" Mordred's first act is to shapeshift into a spider-creature and feast on his birth-mother. Susannah grabs a gun, wounds but fails to kill Mordred, eliminates other agents of the Crimson King, and escapes to meet up with Jake. Maturing at an accelerated rate, Mordred later stalks Roland and the other gunslingers throughout this adventure, shifting from human to spider as the need arises, seething with an instinctive rage toward Roland, his "white daddy."
In Maine, Roland and Eddie recruit John Cullum, and then make their way back to Fedic, where the ka-tet is now reunited. Walter (known in other stories as Randall Flagg) has dreams of grandeur in which he plans to slay Mordred and use the birthmark on Mordred's heel to gain access to the Tower, but he is easily slain by the infant when Mordred sees through his lies.
Roland and his ka-tet travel to Thunderclap, then to the nearby Devar-Toi, to stop a group of psychics known as Breakers who are allowing their telepathic abilities to be used to break away at the beams that support the Tower. Ted Brautigan and Dinky Earnshaw assist the gunslingers with information and weapons, and reunite Roland with his old friend Sheemie Ruiz from Mejis. The Gunslingers free the Breakers from their captors, but Eddie is mortally wounded after the battle and dies a short while later. Roland and Jake pause to mourn and then jump to Maine of 1999 along with Oy, in order to save the life of Stephen King (who he writes to be an omniscient secondary character in the book); the ka-tet have come to believe that for some unexplained reason, the success of their quest depends on King's surviving to write about it through his books.
They discover King about to be hit by a van. Jake pushes King out of the way but is killed in the process. Roland, heartbroken with the loss of the person he considers his true son, buries Jake and returns to Susannah in Fedic with Oy, where they are first chased relentlessly through the depths of Castle Discordia by an otherworldly monster, then depart and travel for weeks across freezing badlands toward the Tower.
Along the way they find Patrick Danville, a young man imprisoned by someone who calls himself Joe Collins but is really a psychic vampire named Dandelo. Dandelo feeds off the emotions of his victims, and starts to feed off of Roland and Susannah by telling them jokes. Roland and Susannah are alerted to the danger by Stephen King, who drops clues directly into the book, enabling them to defeat the vampire. They discover Patrick in the basement, and find that Dandelo had removed his tongue. Patrick is freed and soon his special talent becomes evident: his drawings and paintings have the strange tendency to become reality. As their travels bring them nearer to the Dark Tower, Susannah comes to the conclusion that Roland needs to complete his journey without her. After discovering Patrick's magical abilities in his drawings, Susannah asks Patrick to draw a door she has seen in her dreams, which lead her out of this world. He does so and once it appears, Susannah says goodbye to Roland and crosses over to another world.
Mordred finally reaches and attacks Roland. Oy viciously defends his dinh, providing Roland the extra seconds needed to exterminate the were-spider. Unfortunately, Oy is impaled on a tree branch and dies. Roland continues on to his ultimate goal and reaches the Tower, only to find it occupied by the Crimson King. They remain in a stalemate for a few hours, till Roland uses Patrick's special abilities to draw a picture of the Crimson King and then erase it, thus wiping him out of existence. Roland gains entry into the Tower while Patrick turns back home. The last scene is that of Roland crying out the names of his loved ones and fallen comrades as he had vowed to do. The door of the Dark Tower closes shut as Patrick watches from a distance.
The story then shifts to Susannah coming through the magic door to an alternate 1980s New York, where Gary Hart is president. Susannah throws away Roland's gun (which does not function on this side of the door), rejecting the life of a gunslinger, and starts a new life with alternate versions of Eddie and Jake, who in this world are brothers with the surname Toren. They have only very vague memories of their previous journey with Susannah, whose own memories of Mid-World are already beginning to fade. It is implied that an alternate version of Oy, a dog with a long neck whose barks sometimes sound like words, will also join them.
Stephen King inserts an "afterword" which warns readers to close the book at this point, consider the story finished with a happy ending, and not venture inside the Tower with Roland. For those who do not heed the warning, the story resumes with Roland stepping into the Dark Tower. He realizes that the Tower is not really made of stone, but a kind of flesh: it is Gan's physical body. As he climbs the steps, Roland encounters various rooms containing siguls or signs of his past life. When he reaches the top of the Tower, he finds a door marked "ROLAND", and opens it. Roland instantly realizes, to his horror, that he has reached the Tower countless times before. He is forced through the door by the hands of Gan, only to be transported back in time to the Mohaine desert, with no memories of what has just occurred, ending the series where it began in the first line of book one: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The only difference is that, this time, Roland possesses the Horn of Eld, which in the previous incarnation he had left lying on the ground after the Battle of Jericho Hill. Roland hears the voice of Gan, whispering that, if he reaches the Tower again, perhaps this time the result will be different; there may yet be rest.

Español

Siguiendo donde el sexto libro quedó, Jake Chambers y el Padre Callahan se enfrentan a la malvada infección dentro del Dixie Pig, un salón de vampiros en la ciudad de Nueva York con carne humana asada y puertas a otros mundos. Luego de luchar y destruir a numerosos "hampones" y vampiros tipo uno, Callahan se sacrifica para permitir que Jake sobreviva. En el otro mundo, en Fedic, Mia, con su cuerpo ahora físicamente separado de Susannah Dean, da a luz a Mordred Deschain, el hijo biológico de Roland Deschain y Susannah. El Rey Carmesí, de alguna forma, es también "co-padre" de este hijo profético, por lo que no es sorpresivo cuando el primer ataque del "bebé" Mordred consiste en transformarse en una criatura con forma de araña y hacerse un festín con su madre biológica. Susannah agarra una pistola, hiere pero no logra asesinar a Mordred, elimina a otros agentes del Rey Carmesí y escapa para encontrarse con Jake. Madurando a un ritmo acelerado, Mordred luego persigue a Roland y los otros pistoleros a lo largo de esta aventura, cambiando de su forma humana a la de araña, según las circunstancias, lleno de una furia instintiva contra Roland, su "papi blanco".
En Maine, Roland y Eddie reclutan a John Cullum, y luego hacen su camino de vuelta a Fedic, donde el ka-tet se reúne. Walter (conocido en otras historias como Randall Flagg) tiene sueños de grandeza en los que plantea matar a Mordred y usar la marca de nacimiento en el talón del mismo para ganar acceso a la Torre, pero es fácilmente asesinado por el infante cuando Mordred mira a través de sus mentiras.
Roland y su ka-tet viajan a Thunderclap, luego al cercano Devar-Toi, para detener a un grupo de psíquicos conocidos como Disgregadores, quienes permiten que sus habilidades telepáticas sean utilizadas para dañar a los haces que soportan a la Torre. Ted Brautigan y Dinky Earnshaw ayudan a los pistoleros dándoles información y armas, y reúnen a Roland con su viejo amigo Sheemie Ruiz, de Mejis. Los pistoleros liberan a los Disgregadores de sus captores, pero Eddie es mortalmente herido luego de la batalla y muere poco tiempo después. Roland y Jake se detienen para lamentarse y luego saltan al Maine de 1999 junto con Acho, para salvar la vida de Stephen King (a quien el describe como un personaje secundario omnisciente en el libro). El ka-tet ha llegado a creer que por alguna razón inexplicable, el éxito de su búsqueda depende de que King sobreviva para escribir sobre la misma a través de sus libros.
Descubren a King a punto de ser atropellado por una camioneta. Jake empuja a King pero muere en el proceso. Roland, con el corazón destruido por la pérdida de la persona a quien considera su verdadero hijo, entierra a Jake y vuelve con Acho a Fedic, donde se encuentra Susannah, y donde al principio son perseguidos implacablemente a través de las profundidades del Castillo Discordia por un monstruo de otro mundo, y luego parten y viajan por semanas a través de las heladas tierras yermas, hacia la Torre.
En el viaje encuentran a Patrick Danville, un joven mantenido prisionero por alguien que se llama a sí mismo Joe Collins pero que en realidad es un vampiro psíquico llamado Dandelo. Este último se alimenta de las emociones de sus víctimas, y comienza a alimentarse de Roland y Susannah contándoles chistes. Los pistoleros son alertados del peligro por Stephen King, quien les arroja pistas directamente al libro, permitiéndoles vencer al vampiro. Descubren a Patrick en el sótano, y se dan cuenta que Dandelo le quitó la lengua. Patrick es liberado y pronto su talento especial se hace evidente: sus dibujos y pinturas tienen la extraña tendencia de convertirse en realidad. Mientras su viaje los acerca cada vez más a la Torre Oscura, Susannah llega a la conclusión de que Roland debe completar su viaje sin ella. Luego de descubrir las habilidades mágicas de Patrick en sus dibujos, Susannah le pide que dibuje una puerta que ella ha visto en sus sueños, la cual la lleva fuera de este mundo. El lo hace y una vez que la puerta aparece, Susannah se despide de Roland y cruza hacia otro mundo.
Finalmente, Mordred alcanza y ataca a Roland. Acho defiende ferozmente a su dinh, otorgándole a Roland los segundos adicionales que necesita para exterminar al hombre-araña. Desafortunadamente, Acho es empalado en la rama de un árbol y muere. Roland continúa hacia su meta final y alcanza la Torre, solo para encontrarla ocupada por el Rey Carmesí. Permanecen paralizados por algunas horas, hasta que Roland usa las habilidades especiales de Patrick para dibujar una imagen del Rey Carmesí y luego borrarla, de esta forma eliminando su existencia. Roland se gana la entrada a la Torre mientras Patrick se vuelve a casa. La última es la de Roland exclamando los nombres de sus amados y compañeros caídos, tal como prometió hacerlo. La puerta de la Torre Oscura se cierra mientras Patrick mira desde la distancia.
La historia luego cambia a Susannah, atravesando la puerta mágica hacia un Nueva York de 1980 alternativo, donde Gary Hart es presidente. Susannah arroja la pistola de Roland (la cual no funciona de este lado de la puerta), rechazando la vida de pistolero, y comienza una nueva vida con versiones alternativas de Eddie y Jake, quienes en este mundo son hermanos con el apellido Toren. Solo tienen recuerdos muy vagos de su viaje previo con Susannah, cuyos propios recuerdos de Mundo-Medio ya comienzan a desdibujarse. Está implícito que una versión alternativa de Acho, un perro con un largo cuello cuyos ladridos a veces suenan como palabras, también los acompañará.
Stephen King incluye un "epílogo" que advierte a los lectores de cerrar el libro en este punto, considerar la historia como terminada con un final feliz, y no aventurarse dentro de la Torre con Roland. Para aquellos que no presten atención a la advertencia, la historia culmina con Roland subiendo la Torre Oscura. Se da cuenta de que la Torre no está realmente hecha de piedra, sino de un tipo de carne: es el cuerpo físico de Gan. Al subir los escalones, encuentra una puerta marcada como "ROLAND", y la abre. Instantáneamente Roland se da cuenta, para su horror, que ha llegado a la Torre innumerables veces anteriormente. Es forzado a través de la puerta por las manos de Gan, solo para ser transportado de vuelta en el tiempo al desierto de Mohaine, sin recuerdos de la que recién ocurrió, terminando la serie donde comenzó en la primera línea del primer libro: "El hombre de negro huía a través del desierto, y el pistolero iba en pos de el". La única diferencia es que, en esta ocasión, Roland posee el Cuerno del Eld, el cual en la encarnación anterior había dejado en el suelo luego de la Batalla de la Colina de Jericó. Roland escucha la voz de Gan, susurrando que, si alcanza la Torre de nuevo, quizás esta vez el resultado sea diferente; aún puede haber descanso.






Français


Jake Chambers et le Père Callahan pénètrent dans le restaurant "le Cochon du Sud" qui cache en fait un conclave de vampires et de suppôts du Roi Cramoisi et où est retenue Susannah, de l'autre côté de la porte entre New York et Fedic. Après un combat épique, Callahan comprend qu'ils vont succomber sous le nombre et se sacrifie pour donner à Jake le temps de s'enfuir. Pendant ce temps, Mia, désormais physiquement séparée de Susannah, donne naissance à Mordred, le fils biologique de Roland et de Susannah. Mordred se transforme immédiatement en araignée géante et dévore Mia alors que Susannah échoue à l'éliminer, lui permettant ainsi de s'enfuir. Grandissant à un rythme accéléré et passant de la forme humaine à celle d'araignée suivant ses besoins, Mordred est retrouvé par Randall Flagg qui cherche à l'utiliser pour servir ses propres buts mais le magicien est piégé par l'enfant et connaît une fin atroce.
De leur côté, Roland et Eddie font leurs adieux à John Cullum, non sans l'avoir auparavant chargé de fonder, avec l'aide d'Aaron Deepneau et de Moses Carver, la Tet Corporation qui sera chargée de protéger la rose dans notre monde. Les quatre pistoleros sont finalement réunis et poursuivent leur chemin dans la contrée de Tonnefoudre, tout en étant discrètement suivis par Mordred, arrivant au camp de Briseurs de Devar-Toi. Celui-ci est aux mains d'agents du Roi Cramoisi qui sont chargés de surveiller des Briseurs, dont le but est de détruire, grâce à leurs facultés psychiques, les rayons maintenant la Tour sombre. Les pistoleros sont alors contactés par trois Briseurs désireux de les aider, Ted Brautigan, Dinky Earnshaw et Sheemie, un vieil ami de Roland. Ensemble, ils établissent un plan pour prendre le camp d'assaut et parviennent à le libérer mais Eddie reçoit une blessure mortelle à la fin de la bataille.
Prenant juste le temps de pleurer leur ami, Roland et Jake se rendent dans le Maine pour sauver la vie de Stephen King, le succès de leur quête dépendant en partie de la survie de l'écrivain. Ils arrivent au moment où l'auteur est sur le point de se faire écraser par une camionnette et Jake le pousse hors de la route du véhicule juste à temps, se faisant écraser à sa place. Roland, le coeur brisé par la mort de Jake qu'il considérait comme son propre fils, repasse avec Ote la porte entre New York et Fedic pour retrouver Susannah, non sans avoir auparavant rendu visite à la Tet Corporation.
Voyageant pendant des semaines à travers des terres gelées, les trois survivants du ka-tet arrivent à La Ronde, village dont le seul habitant, Joe Collins, leur fait bon accueil. Mais il s'agit en fait d'un vampire psychique et seule la prise de conscience de ce fait par Susannah permet à Roland de survivre. Après avoir tué Collins, ils trouvent un jeune homme, Patrick Danville, qui était retenu prisonnier. Celui-ci est un dessinateur extraordinaire dont les dessins ont la capacité de devenir réalité. Quand elle s'aperçoit de son don, Susannah lui demande de dessiner pour elle une porte qui la ramènera à New York et quitte Roland et Ote après leur avoir fait ses adieux.
Peu après, Roland est finalement attaqué par Mordred mais est sauvé par l'intervention et le sacrifice de Ote qui lui donne le temps nécessaire de se ressaisir et de tuer Mordred. Roland et Patrick finissent par atteindre la Tour qu'ils trouvent occupée par le Roi Cramoisi, enfermé sur un des balcons de l'édifice et devenu fou. Après une longue impasse, Patrick dessine le Roi Cramoisi puis efface son dessin, mettant ainsi fin à l'existence du dément. Roland est alors libre de pénétrer dans la Tour, ce qu'il fait en prononçant les noms de tous ses camarades disparus.
Susannah est quant à elle arrivée dans un New York des années 80 d'un monde alternatif, monde dans lequel elle retrouve des doubles de Eddie et de Jake (et même de Ote sous la forme d'un chien un peu spécial) et, ensemble, ils vont commencer une nouvelle vie.
Roland monte jusqu'au sommet de la Tour, passant devant diverses salles où il voit des signes de son passé. Il parvient finalement devant une porte où est marqué son nom et, en la franchissant, réalise qu'il a déjà fait cela nombre de fois. En effet, répéter sans fin son existence, sans jamais s'en souvenir, à partir du moment où il poursuit l'homme en noir est sa punition pour sa quête obsessionnelle de la Tour et tous ses pêchés commis en ce nom. Mais, cette fois-ci et parce qu'il devient à chaque fois plus humain et réalise de plus en plus les valeurs de l'amour et de l'amitié, Roland a en sa possession le Cor d'Eld, laissant, peut-être, présager que la quête qu'il s'apprête une fois de plus à recommencer sera la dernière. Et il part sur la trace de l'homme en noir. La boucle est bouclée.




Italiano

Si parte dalla fine del sesto libro, Jake e Pere Callahan combattono le truppe sataniche dentro il Dixie Pig, un luogo pieno di vampiri che mangiano resti umani e di porte che si aprono su altri mondi; Callahan si sacrifica per poter salvare Jake. Mia, che finalmente ha separato il suo corpo da quello di Susannah, partorisce Mordred Deschain, il figlio naturale di Roland e Susannah. Anche il Re Rosso è un co-padre di questo bambino, così non si sorprende quando il primo atto del giovane Mordred è quello di trasformarsi in una creatura simile ad un ragno mangiando la madre. Susannah non riesce ad ucciderlo, ma elimina altri agenti del Re Rosso, riuscendo a scappare e ad unirsi a Jake. Crescendo ad un ritmo accelerato, Mordred insegue Roland e gli altri pistoleri attraverso questa avventura, mutando da uomo a ragno e viceversa secondo le necessità, ribollendo di rabbia verso il suo "padre bianco", Roland.
Roland e Eddie tornano dal Maine a Fedic, dove il Ka-tet, ora riunito, deve fermare un gruppo di persone, i Frangitori, che usano, costretti, le loro capacità mentali soprannaturali per distruggere i Vettori che sorreggono la torre. Se la Torre cadesse, il Re Rosso è convinto di poter comandare sul caos che si creerebbe. Allo stesso modo, Walter (alias Randall Flagg) ha sogni di grandezza in cui pianifica di uccidere Mordred usando la voglia che si trova sul suo tallone per entrare nella Torre. I pistoleri liberano i Frangitori dai loro aguzzini, ma Eddie viene ucciso nella battaglia. Roland e Jake si fermano a ricordare l'amico prima di tornare nel Maine per salvare la vita di Stephen King. Jake spinge King fuori della traiettoria di un furgone lanciato in velocità durante il 1999, ma viene ucciso nel tentativo. Roland, col cuore distrutto, seppellisce Jake e torna da Susannah a Fedic, da dove partono per un viaggio di settimane attraverso le Terre Bianche di Empathica in direzione della Torre.
Sulla strada incontrano Patrick Danville, un giovane uomo imprigionato da qualcuno che si fa chiamare Joe Collins ma che in realtà è un vampiro psichico. Patrick viene liberato e mostra il suo enorme talento: i suoi disegni hanno la strana tendenza a diventare reali. Disegna una porta magica per Susannah; una volta apparsa, saluta Roland e la usa per tornare ad una New York simile a quella da cui era partita, dove versioni differenti di Jake e Eddie la stanno aspettando. Mordred, dopo aver manipolato ed ucciso Walter come un bambino, raggiunge ed attacca Roland. Oy difende il suo din, regalandogli alcuni secondi extra necessari per uccidere il mezzo ragno. Sfortunatamente, Oy viene impalato su un albero e muore. Roland continua la corsa verso l'obiettivo finale ed usa le qualità di Patrick per battere il Re Rosso, guadagnandosi l'ingresso alla Torre; qui finisce la storia... quasi.
In altre parole, Stephen King avvisa il lettore che il libro finisce in questo punto, il nostro eroe ha raggiunto la torre e tanto deve bastarci, non abbiam macinato migliaia di pagine solo per un finale, ma per il gusto del viaggio in sé stesso—non bisogna avventurarsi nella Torre con Roland, non è richiesto, non è necessario, si può posare il libro a questo punto col ricordo di un'avventura fantastica. Se il lettore non accetta questa proposta, la storia riprende con Roland che si arrampica fino alla cima della Torre, le pareti della scala sono scolpite con i volti delle persone da lui conosciute, ad ogni piano si apre una porta che mostra un oggetto rappresentante la vita di Roland, dalle fasce della sua nascita ai finimenti del suo falco ecc. Salita l'ultima rampa appare un'ultima porta recante la scritta "Roland". il pistolero apre la porta finale, e di colpo si rende conto che ha già raggiunto la Torre molto tempo prima, infinite volte. Roland comprende e ricorda allora che la sua è una maledizione, che è destinato a ripetere la sua ricerca, di trovare sempre la sua Torre ma di perderne memoria ogni volta, centinaia, forse migliaia di volte ha già vissuto la stessa ricerca, facendo le stesse scelte, tradendo gli stessi amici e cercando una redenzione che non arriverà forse mai. Viene risucchiato all'interno della porta solo per essere teletrasportato indietro nel tempo, guarito dalle sue ferite, con le sue pistole e la mano intatta nel deserto, terminando la serie proprio com'era iniziata: "L'Uomo in Nero fuggì nel deserto, ed il pistolero lo seguì". C'è un piccolo colpo di scena, comunque; la memoria di Roland svanisce velocemente, ma Roland ora possiede il corno che aveva stupidamente perso tempo addietro a Jericho Hill. Questa piccola ma sostanziale differenza rispetto alla prima versione rafforza l'idea che Roland ha l'opportunità' di fare scelte diverse e, eventualmente, creare una rottura nel cerchio.




Salem's lot (2004)


English

The story opens with Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) attacking the priest, Donald Callahan (James Cromwell) in a homeless shelter. They fall together from a high window into the street. In the hospital, Ben Mears tells his story and the reasons behind his fight with the priest. This takes the form of a flashback in which the miniseries' central plot unfolds.
In the flashback, Ben is a successful writer. He returns to his hometown, Jerusalem's Lot (also known as 'Salem's Lot), intending to write a novel while he deals with the demons of his past. He tells Susan Norton (a waitress and former art student whom he has befriended), that as a child he accepted a dare to enter the house of Hubie Marsden. Local legend said that there was something wrong with the house and/or its owner, suggesting that he tortured and murdered children. That night in the house, Ben overheard something horrible — including Hubie begging for his life before committing suicide. Ben believes that he also heard Hubie Marsden's last victim crying for help, but Ben was too afraid to find or help him and fled. Ben plans to rent and investigate the house to bring catharsis to himself and to gather material for his novel, but he discovers that the owner, Larry Crockett (Grubb), has sold it to a pair of antique dealers, Richard Straker (Donald Sutherland) and Kurt Barlow (Rutger Hauer).
Shortly thereafter, the dark secrets of the town's residents begin to emerge. Crockett is sexually abusing his daughter Ruthie (McNamee). When she spends time with a cripple named Dud (Cowell) whom Crockett employs, Crockett fires him. Evie (Blake), who runs the boarding house where Ben stays, played evil games with Hughie Marsden when they were teenagers. The school bus driver is a bully who loves to torment the children he transports, forcing those he doesn't like to walk home. These painful revelations increase in frequency and magnitude up until the arrival of the mysterious Barlow. Barlow, a master vampire, is influencing some of these occurrences as a prelude to "recruiting" more vampires to serve him. A child vanishes, and his brother then sickens and dies. Laborer Mike Ryerson (Morris) buries the boy, then also gets sick and dies. He returns from the grave (complete with autopsy scars) to tempt high school teacher Matt Burke (Andre Braugher), who is rescued but suffers a heart attack. Ben is persuaded by the mounting evidence that the town is plagued by vampirism. He and his allies, Dr. Cody (Robert Mammone), Father Callahan and Mark Petrie (Byrd) begin acting as vampire hunters, although they balk upon finding that Susan Norton has become a victim. Ben insists upon targeting Barlow in the hopes that Barlow's victims might be restored upon his destruction.
The characters face their own psychological demons as the physical demons surround them. Father Callahan, trying to confront Barlow by himself, finds his faith is not strong enough. Callahan is forced to drink Barlow's blood, turning Callahan into Barlow's servant. Larry Crockett, who invited the vampire into town, sees his daughter willingly join the vampiric Dud in the night. Most of all, Ben still wrestles with his own guilt and personal failures.
Cody and Burke are killed. Mark Petrie and Ben manage to destroy Barlow, but not before he taunts Ben. Barlow likens Ben to himself, describing him as another parasite who preys on the tragedies of others.
Ben's hypothesis is disproven: though Barlow is destroyed, Susan is still a vampire. She tells him that the boy he failed to rescue all those years ago was already dead when Marsden died, and Ben was never to blame. When Susan turns to attack Mark, Ben is forced to destroy her.
Ben concludes his flashback. The nurse is deeply moved and frightened by the story. He realizes Ben wasn't acting alone. When he leaves to assist with Father Callahan (who has died), Mark slips into Ben's room to tell him it is over. The Nurse sees Mark, realizes what has happened, but lets him go.
In his hospital room, Ben passes away, feeling at peace.

Italiano

Salem's Lot è una miniserie televisiva in due parti trasmessa dall'emittente TNT, e tratta dal romanzo Le notti di Salem di Stephen King.
La miniserie è il rifacimento della miniserie del 1979 Le notti di Salem.
In Italia la miniserie è stata trasmessa prima sul canale satellitare fox vedibile dal bouquet sky e poi in un'unica puntata, da Italia 1 nella notte tra il 13 e il 14 settembre 2008 alle ore 2.45.

The Wolves of Calla (The Dark Tower V) 2003



English

After escaping the alternate Topeka and the evil wizard Randall Flagg, Roland's ka-tet travel to the farming village of Calla Bryn Sturgis where they meet the townsfolk, as well as Father Callahan, who was originally introduced in 'Salem's Lot. He and the townsfolk request the ka-tet's assistance in battling against the Wolves of Thunderclap, who come once a generation to take one child from each pair of the town's twins. After a few months of being away, the children are then returned "roont" (ruined) - mentally handicapped and destined to grow to enormous size and die young. The Wolves are due to come in about a month's time.
Father Callahan also tells the gunslingers his remarkable story of how he left Maine following his battle with the vampire Kurt Barlow in the novel 'Salem's Lot. Since that encounter he has gained the ability to identify Type-3 vampires with a blue aura. After some time he begins killing these minor vampires as he finds them; however, this makes him a wanted man amongst the "low men" and so Callahan must go into exile. Eventually he is lured into a trap and dies, allowing him to enter Mid-World in 1983, much as Jake did when killed in The Gunslinger. He appears near the Calla with an evil magic ball called Black Thirteen, and is found by the Manni people in a place called The Doorway Cave.
Not only do Roland of Gilead and his ka-tet have to protect the Calla-folken from the Wolves, they must also protect a single red rose that grows in a vacant lot on Second Avenue and Forty-Sixth Street in mid-town Manhattan of 1977. If it is destroyed, then the Tower (which is the rose in another form) will fall. In order to get back to New York to prevent this they must use the sinister Black Thirteen. To add to that, Roland and Jake have noticed bizarre changes in Susannah's behavior, which are linked to the event recounted in The Waste Lands when Susannah couples with the demon in the stone circle. Roland informs Eddie that Susannah has been impregnated by the demon, and though he fears for her safety he remains surprisingly calm. They promise to keep the fact that they know a secret from Susannah, but later Susannah reveals to the ka-tet that she herself has come to grips with it, and knowledge of a second personality living in Susannah named Mia "daughter of none" is shared.
Jake finds out that his new friend Benny Slightman's father is a traitor by following him to a military outpost between the Calla and Thunderclap known as "The Dogan" (which is also featured in The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home). Jake tells Roland, who shows mercy by not killing Slightman, instead leaving him alive for his son and Jake's sake. The wolves attack, using weapons resembling the snitches found in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (which are actually stamped 'Harry Potter Model') and lightsabers found in George Lucas' Star Wars, and are revealed to be robots and to have Doctor Doom-like visages. The gunslingers, along with some help from a few plate-throwing women in the Calla, defeat the wolves, all the while with the children safely hidden in a rice patch nearby. Mia takes over the body of Susannah and flees to the doorway cave, where she uses Black Thirteen to transport herself to New York.

Italiano

Dopo essere fuggiti da una Topeka alternativa e dal perfido mago Randall Flagg, il Ka-tet di Roland viaggia fino ad un villaggio di contadini, Calla Bryn Sturgis, dove i pistoleri incontrano Pere Callahan. La gente della cittadina chiede aiuto al Ka-tet contro i Lupi di Rombo di Tuono, che si presentano a ogni generazione per prendere un bambino da ogni coppia di gemelli. Dopo pochi mesi dal rapimento, i bambini ritornano guasti, mentalmente menomati, destinati a crescere fino a raggiungere dimensioni spropositate e a morire giovani. Al momento dell'arrivo di Roland, manca circa un mese all'incursione dei Lupi.
Pere Callahan racconta ai pistoleri la sua incredibile storia di come fuggì dal Maine dopo la sua battaglia con il vampiro Barlow (la vicenda è narrata nel romanzo di King Le notti di Salem). Da quell'incontro aveva acquisito la capacità di identificare i vampiri, che Callahan divide in tre gruppi, attraverso un'aura blu. Dopo qualche tempo aveva cominciato ad uccidere i vampiri minori; in ogni modo, questo aveva fatto di lui un ricercato tra gli "uomini bassi", costringendolo all'esilio.
Alla fine è intrappolato e muore, il che gli permette di entrare nel Medio-Mondo nel 1983, proprio come fece Jake, ucciso in L'ultimo cavaliere. Appare dalle parti del Calla con una diabolica sfera nera chiamata la 'Tredici Nera', ed è aiutato dai Manni.
Non solo Roland ed il Ka-tet devono difendere il Calla dai Lupi, devono anche proteggere una rosa rossa che cresce in un lotto vacante tra la 2^ Avenue e la 46^ Strada a mid-town Manhattan nel 1977. Se la rosa venisse distrutta, la Torre cadrebbe con lei. Per poter tornare a New York ed evitarlo devono usare la sinistra Tredici Nera.
Come se non bastasse, Roland e Jake hanno notato cambiamenti bizzarri nel comportamento di Susannah, riconducibili agli avvenimenti raccontati in Terre desolate quando Susannah si occupò del demone nel cerchio di pietra.

Español

Es el tomo con un ambiente más "western" de toda la serie y la trama recuerda mucho a "los siete magníficos". Lobos del Calla... después de haber tenido su breve pelea contra el Sr. Tic-Tac y Randall Flagg y haber visto como Roland había asesinado a su madre por accidente, el Ka-Tet del blanco siguió su camino por el Haz. Mientras tanto, en Calla Bryn Sturgis, un pequeño pueblo, el robot Andy avisa al Calla de la futura llegada de los Lobos. El pueblo de Calla Bryn Sturgis es habitado por granjeros, gente amable sobre la que pesa una terrible amenaza: Los lobos de Tronido, jinetes con máscaras que cada cierto tiempo raptan a los niños de la villa. Por si esto fuera poco, Susannah esta embarazada y Roland sospecha que el padre puede ser el demonio que la violó en "Las tierras baldías" cuando Jake pasó a Mundo Medio. En su estancia en el Calla, Roland y su Ka-tet experimentan el exotránsito que es una forma de viaje astral a otro cuándo y otro dónde. El padre Callahan, otro vagabundo de nuestro tiempo, les relata su historia que abarca desde la mordida del vampiro Barlow en Jerusalem's Lot hasta que llega al Calla gracias al antiguo enemigo de Roland: Marten/Walter/Flagg. Walter le da la Trece Negra a Callahan quien la mantiene oculta hasta que se la entrega a los pistoleros. EL robot del Calla, Andy, resulta ser un traidor creado por Industrias LaMerk y es el que guía a los lobos hacia el Calla. Eddie, con ayuda de la puerta Ignota que se encuentra en la Cueva de la Puerta, regresa a 1977 para convencer a Calvin Torre (el dueño de la tienda de libros en donde Jake encuentra a Charlie el Chú Chú) de que le venda el solar "vacio" con el fin de proteger a la Rosa de Sombra Corporation. Mia, hija de nadie, se crea como protección para el bebé que Susannah espera. Susannah teme dar a luz el día que los lobos aparezcan y que Mia tome posesión de su cuerpo al igual que Detta lo hacía con Odetta. Eddie apaga a Andy sin antes dejarlo ciego de dos balazos. Se descubre que los Lobos son robots al igual que Andy, el Ka-Tet eventualmente acaba con ellos. La función de los lobos es raptar a un gemelo nacido en el pueblo para arrebatarle parte de su capacidad cerebral y dársela a los disgregadores, unos seres humanos con capacidades telépatas y otros poderes capaces de destruir los haces que sostienen la Torre Oscura. Mia toma control del cuerpo de Susannah y toma la trece negra para pasar a través de la puerta Ignota y llegar a 1999 en dónde Randall Flagg las espera para dar nacimiento al bebé. Roland descubre uno de los libros que Calvin Torre les había pedido que cuidaran y el libro resulta ser El Misterio de Salem's Lot escrito por Stephen King en donde se relata la aventura de Ben Mears y el Padre Callahan. Callahan queda anonadado por el descubrimiento de que su naturaleza es ficción. El ka-tet deciden cruzar una vez más a través de la puerta Ignota para salvar a Susannah, salvar la Rosa y encontrar al escritor Stephen King.

Français

Roland et ses amis pistoleros, désormais indéfectiblement liés, continuent de cheminer le long du Sentier du Rayon. C'est là que des émissaires de la vallée de La Calla – le Père Callahan, prêtre défroqué au passé mouvementé déjà apparu dans Salem, un des premiers romans de Stephen King, trois fermiers et un robot géant – viennent les trouver et leur demandent assistance : les loups de Tonnefoudre, des créatures monstrueuses qui, une fois par génération, arrachent la moitié des enfants à leurs familles pour les renvoyer décérébrés, déciment la communauté. Or, les Loups doivent venir dans un mois.
Roland accepte d'aider la communauté de la Calla car cela fait partie des devoirs des pistoleros mais aussi car le Père Callahan détient un objet maléfique, la Treizième Noire, qui pourrait être fort utile au ka-tet. Le groupe commence par collecter toutes les histoires qu'il peut trouver, à commencer par celle de Callahan. Mais Roland a d'autres sujets de préoccupation : il a remarqué l'étrange comportement de Susannah et informe Eddie qu'elle pourrait être enceinte du démon l'ayant violée (voir Terres perdues). Susannah elle-même est consciente qu'une nouvelle personnalité, Mia, a émergé chez elle. D'autre part, le groupe doit aussi se préoccuper de la rose qui est la représentation de la Tour sombre dans notre monde, aussi Eddie, à l'aide de la Treizième Noire, emprunte-t-il une porte entre les mondes pour se rendre à New York et persuader Calvin Tower, le propriétaire du terrain où se trouve la rose, de ne pas céder à la pression de personnes qui voudraient le voir vendre et d'aller se cacher en attendant que les pistoleros puissent l'aider.
Jake découvre que le père de son nouvel ami, Benny Slightman, est un traître chargé d'informer les Loups sur le lieu où seront cachés les enfants. Il en informe Roland qui décide de laisser le traître en vie par égard pour son fils et parce qu'il ne présente plus de danger pour le plan que les pistoleros ont mis en place. Quand les Loups arrivent, le plan se déroule plus ou moins comme prévu et tous les Loups sont anéantis au prix de pertes légères. Mais, à l'issue du combat, les pistoleros s'aperçoivent que Susannah a disparu, emportant avec elle la Treizième Noire.

Волки Кальи

Следуя тропе Луча, ка-тет Роланда попадает в обжитые места: группу поселений под общим названием «Калья». Вот уже несколько поколений таинственные разбойники в волчьих масках раз в двадцать лет забирают половину всех детей и скрываются в краю вечного мрака — Тандерклепе. Дети вскоре возвращаются, но превращенные в безмозглых уродов — рунтов. Приходит время новой жатвы, но многие жители Кальи Брин Стерджис недовольны сложившимся порядком вещей. И как нельзя вовремя пожаловали стрелки.
Сюзанна беременна, но совсем не обычным ребенком, и вновь в её разуме ведется ожесточенная борьба за тело. Не все в порядке и у Роланда: безжалостный сухой скрут начинает пожирать суставы стрелка. Тем временем на Нью-Йоркском уровне Башни ведется охота за пустырем с розой, утраты которой допустить нельзя, иначе целостность мира будет безвозвратно нарушена.
Значимое место в романе занимает история отца Каллагэна, главного героя романа «Жребий», оказавшийся в Калье после долгих странствий по мирам.

 



The Night Flier (1998)



English

The story centers on Richard Dees, a deeply cynical reporter from a trashy supermarket tabloid called The Inside View. Dees' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire.
After only a few days of interviewing witnesses and following the killer's trail in his own Cessna, Dees overtakes the Night Flier during a violent thunderstorm at Wilmington International Airport, and quickly learns that he is badly mistaken about his would-be quarry: it is, indeed, a vampire that is doing the killings. After Dees watches the Night Flier casually empty the bloody contents of his bladder into an airport urinal (or as much of this act as he can see reflected in a mirror), the creature warns off his "would-be biographer", destroys his photographic evidence, and leaves the mortally-shaken reporter amidst a scene of carnage to be arrested by the police.
The movie adaptation follows the original plot fairly closely (and maintains Dees' deeply unsympathetic nature), except for adding a rival in the form of up-and-coming female reporter, and changing Dees' ultimate fate.



Español

Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer) es un periodista veterano de la compañía Inside View, una famosa empresa que se dedica a la publicación de artículos basados en lo sobrenatural y demoníaco. Un día, Dees oye sobre un aviador nocturno que sobrevuela los oscuros aeropuertos a media noche y asesina brutalmente a sus víctimas, por lo que decide investigar sobre el personaje. A medida que va investigando va descubriendo importantes pistas que le llevaran a conocer el autentico rostro de el aviador nocturno. Durante la película se irá enfrentando con una periodista que también quiere el caso. También va conociendo pueblerinos que le ayudan con las pistas para dar con el extraño ser.

Ночной полёт

Журналист журнала Inside View давным-давно был довольно известной фигурой в профессиональных кругах, заслужив себе репутацию своим материалом. Однако былое время ушло, и Ричарду всё чаще приходится писать на ерундовые темы. Вскоре главный редактор журнала Мертон Моррисон, узнав историю о неком таинственном пилоте, который садится на небольшие аэродромы и останавливается там на ночь, а на следующий день улетает оставляя за собой несколько обескровленных трупов, поручает написать материал об этих событиях бывшей звезде газеты Ричарду Дизу. Диз, приняв это за очередную нелепую байку, отказывается. Тогда Моррисон поручает это дело молодой журналистке Кэтрин Блэр, которая рьяно берётся за работу желая таким образом заработать себе имя. Однако немного подумав Диз всё-таки решается и берётся за это дело, Моррисон, в свою очередь, передаёт наработанный Кэтрин материал Дизу. Диз садится на самолёт и отправляется на поиски таинственного ночного пилота. Кэтрин, не желая мириться с таким исходом дел, берётся за самостоятельное расследование. Вместе они идут по следам убийцы-лётчика.

A return to Salem's lot (1987)

English

Michael Moriarty plays an amoral anthropologist who has been lumbered with his dysfunctional adolescent son and who returns to Salem's Lot, the town of his birth, to find that it has been taken over by the undead. A few living people are kept around to provide blood for the vampires and to operate the gas station and shops in the daytime. Knowing of the anthropologist's refusal to moralise about other people's lifestyles (in the opening scene he is seen refusing to interfere in a human sacrifice and concerned only for the quality of the film he is shooting), the vampires employ him to write their story. As the vampires' evil nature becomes clear, the anthropologist is joined by a Nazi hunter (played by Samuel Fuller) who helps him save his son, and at the climax the master vampire is impaled on the American flag instead of the traditional stake. As the trio escapes Salem's Lot, the vampires are left in the sun to burn along with their homes.

Italiano

L'antropologo Joe Weber (Michael Moriarty) e suo figlio Jeremy (Ricky Addison Reed) si recano in un paesino sperduto chiamato Salem's lot, noto anche come Gerusalem's Lot, dove una sua zia gli aveva lasciato la casa. Una notte scopriranno che il paese è abitato solo da vampiri e da alcuni mortali che gli aiutano a procurarne vittime per cibarsene, capitanati dal giudice Axel (Andrew Duggan). Quando in paese arriva l'anziano cacciatore di vampiri Van Meer (Samuel Fuller) si allea con Joe per uccidere i vampiri ad uno ad uno.

Salem's lot (1979)

English

The prologue shows a church in Guatemala in which two men, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Petrie "They've found us again."
The story then flashes back two years, to the small town of Salem's Lot (formally known as Jerusalem's Lot) in Maine in the United States. Ben Mears, an author, has returned to the town after a long absence to write a book about the Marsten House, a ominous old property on a hilltop which has a reputation for being haunted. Mears attempts to rent the house but finds that another new arrival in town, the mysterious Richard Straker, has recently bought it. Straker also opens an antique shop with his oft-mentioned but always absent business partner, Kurt Barlow. Meanwhile, Mears moves into a boarding house in town run by Eva Miller, and develops a romantic relationship with a local woman, Susan Norton. He befriends Susan's father, Dr. Bill Norton, and also renews his old friendship with his former school teacher, Jason Burke. Mears tells Burke that he feels the Marsten House is somehow inherently evil, and recalls how he was once traumatized in the house when he was a child.
After a large crate is delivered to the Marsten House one night, an increasing number of the townsfolk begin to disappear or die in strange circumstances. Both Mears and Straker are initially the main suspects as they are new in town, but it becomes clear that the crate contained Straker's mysterious business partner, Kurt Barlow, an ancient master vampire who has come to the town after having sent Straker to make way for his arrival. Straker kills a young local boy, Ralphie Glick, as an offering to Barlow, whilst Barlow himself kills local realtor Larry Crockett after leaves the home of Bonnie Sawyer being chased out by her husband. The Glick boy then returns as a vampire to claim his brother, Danny, who himself becomes undead. In turn, Danny kills the local gravedigger Mike Ryerson who was bothered by Danny's open eyes and then attempts to kill his schoolfriend Mark Petrie. However, Mark is a horror film buff who manages to repel Danny with a crucifix.
Slowly, the vampires spread as Mears and Burke figure out what is happening to the town and attempt to do something to stop it. Mark's parents are both killed by Barlow, though Mark is allowed to escape when the local priest, Father Callahan, sacrifices himself to Barlow. Jason Burke, however, falls prey to a heart attack following an encounter with the newly vampirised Mike Ryerson. In the end, Susan Norton and Mark Petrie are captured by Straker after breaking into the Marsten House. Armed with wooden stakes and holy water, Mears and Dr. Norton head over to the house to destroy Barlow when they run into Mark who has managed to escape. Inside the house, Dr. Norton is killed by Straker, who is himself then killed by Mears using a pistol. Afterwards, Mears and Petrie find Barlow's coffin in the cellar and destroy him by driving a stake through his heart. They then escape from the other vampires in the cellar (the various townsfolk), and set fire to the house. However, Susan is nowhere to be found. As the house burns, the wind begins to carry the fire towards the town itself. Mears and Petrie then flee Salem's Lot knowing that the fire will drive all the other vampires from their hiding places and purify the town from the evil that has engulfed it.
The story then returns to Mears and Petrie at the church in Guatemala two years later. It becomes clear that are on the run from the surviving vampires from Salem's Lot who have been relentlessly pursuing them. Their supplies of holy water glow whenever a vampire is near. Learning that they have been tracked down yet again, Mears and Petrie return to their lodgings to collect their belongings. However, once there, Mears finds Susan lying in his bed. Now a vampire, she prepares to bite him as he leans down to kiss her, but he drives a stake through her heart. Filled with grief, he and Petrie leave, knowing that other vampires will still be hunting them.

Italiano

La storia è ambientata in una piccola cittadina del Maine, Jerusalem's Lot (Il lotto di Gerusalemme), i cui abitanti preferiscono chiamarla Salem's Lot (Il lotto di Salem). Lo scrittore Ben Mears (David Soul), che qui ha avuto i natali, vi torna essendo interessato di Casa Marsten, un'abitazione signorile che Mears tenta di affittare; ma la casa è già stata presa da un altro, tale Richard Straker (James Mason). Straker apre un negozio d'antiquariato e rivela che un suo socio, Kurt Barlow, risiede a Casa Marsten.
Presto Mears sospetta che lui sia il colpevole della sparizione di un ragazzo, Ralphie Glick, che coincide con l'arrivo di Staker in città. Mears intreccia una relazione sentimentale, Susan Norton (Bonnie Bedelia), alla quale rivela la sua sensazione che Casa Marsten sia un luogo maligno. Mears ritrova perfino il suo vecchio insegnante di scuola, Jason Burke (Lew Ayres), e si mostra amico del padre di Susan, il dottor Bill Norton (Ed Flanders). Alcuni strani avvenimenti iniziano ad accadere dopo che due lavoratori, Ryerson e Tibbets, vengono mandati a recuperare una grande cassa da mettere nel basamento di Casa Marsten. La cassa in questione contiene Barlow, il vampiro arrivato a Salem's Lot dopo aver mandato prima il suo 'familiare' Straker in modo da consentire la sua venuta...


Salem's Lot (1975)


English
Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the town of Jerusalem's Lot, Cumberland County, Maine (or “The Lot”, as the locals call it), has returned home after 25 years. Once in town he meets local high school teacher Matt Burke and strikes up a romantic relationship with Susan Norton, a young college graduate.
Ben plans to write a book about the Marsten House, an abandoned mansion, after a bad experience inside it as a child. The Marsten House was the home of 1930s gangster Hubert "Hubie" Marsten, a Boston-based hitman who specialized in rather unsavory hits. Marsten's profession intersected with his personal life; he killed his wife, Birdie, and then hanged himself in 1939. In the 70's, the Marsten House is about to be inhabited by the vampire Kurt Barlow. It is later revealed that Marsten had communicated with the erstwhile Barlow, a native of Austria, for a number of years. Mears discovers that the Marsten House has been bought by Barlow and his familiar, Richard Straker, reputedly businessmen who are opening an antique store in town, although only Straker is seen in public. The arrival coincides with the disappearance of a young boy, Ralphie Glick, and the death of his brother Danny, who becomes the town's first vampire, infecting such locals as Mike Ryerson, Randy McDougall, Jack Griffen, and Danny's own mother, Marjorie Glick. Danny fails, however, to infect Mark Petrie, who resists him successfully. Over the course of several weeks almost all of the townspeople are infected.
Ben Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of the vampires, whose numbers increase as the new vampires infect their own families and others. Susan is captured by Barlow before Mark has a chance to rescue her. Susan becomes a vampire, but is eventually staked through the heart by Mears, the man who loved her.
Father Callahan is caught by Barlow at the Petrie house after Barlow kills Mark's parents, but does not infect them, so they are later given a clean burial. Barlow holds Mark hostage, but Father Callahan has the upper hand, securing Mark's release, agreeing to Barlow's demand that he toss aside his cross and face him on equal terms. However he delays throwing the cross aside and the once powerful religious symbol loses its strength until Barlow can not only approach Callahan but break the cross, now nothing more than two small pieces of plaster, into bits. Barlow says "Sad to see a man's faith fail him", then forces the helpless Callahan to drink blood from Barlow's neck. Callahan resists but cannot hold out forever and is forced to drink, leaving him trapped in a netherworld, as Barlow has left his mark. When Callahan tries to re-enter his church he receives an electric shock, preventing him from going inside. Callahan disappears forever from "the Lot".
Jimmy Cody is killed when he falls from a rigged staircase and is impaled by knives by the one-time denizens of Eva Miller's boarding house, Mears' one-time residence, who have now all become vampires. Matt Burke dies from a heart attack in the town hospital. Ben Mears and Mark Petrie succeed in destroying the master vampire Barlow, but are lucky to escape with their lives and are forced to leave the town to the now leaderless vampires.
The novel's prologue, which is set shortly after the end of the story proper, describes the men's flight across the country to a seaside town in Mexico, where they stop to recover from their ordeal. Mark Petrie is received into the Catholic Church by a friendly local priest.
The epilogue has the two returning to the town a year later, intending to renew the battle. Ben, knowing that there are too many hiding places for the town's vampires, sets the town on fire with the intent of destroying it and the Marsten House once and for all.

Italiano
Ben Mears, uno scrittore di successo cresciuto nell'immaginaria città di Jerusalem's Lot, Maine (chiamata "il Lot" dagli abitanti), torna nella città natale. Ben ora ha intenzione di scrivere un libro su 'Casa Marsten', una magione abbandonata che gli causò molti incubi dopo una brutta avventura vissuta da ragazzo: infatti per far parte di un gruppo di ragazzi doveva eseguire una prova di coraggio, ovvero entrare in casa Marsten riportando un oggetto che testimoniasse il suo atto di coraggio, solo che durante questa bravata vide il signor Huber Marsten impiccato che lo fissava con gli occhi sgranati, per lui questo fu uno shock terribile. Arrivato in città incontra l'insegnante locale Matt Burke e inizia una relazione romantica con Susan Norton, una giovane collegiale.
Mears scopre che casa Marsten è stata acquistata da Mr.Straker e Mr.Barlow, una coppia di uomini d'affari arrivati da poco in città.
Il loro arrivo coincide con una serie di spiacevoli avvenimenti: si trovò un cane nero scuoiato e con la testa mozzata e conficcata nel cancello del cimitero, ci fu la sparizione di un giovane ragazzo, Ralphie Glick, e la sospetta morte del fratello Danny. Nel corso del libro, si scopre che i Glick sono stati trasformati in vampiri da Barlow e la città è lentamente conquistata dai vampiri, mentre Ben, Matt, Susan, Mark e pochi altri residenti del Lot tentano di evitarlo.
Alla fine Susan diventa un vampiro e Ben, addoloratissimo per quello che sta per fare, la uccide. A questo punto Ben ed il giovanissimo Mark Petrie riescono ad uccidere Straker ed a distruggere il capo vampiro Barlow, e cercano di liberare la città dai vampiri, ma, a causa del loro alto numero, decidono di fuggire.
Vi ritorneranno, dopo aver girovagato nel sud degli Stati uniti e in Messico, e la daranno alle fiamme.
Le notti di Salem è una combinazione di thriller psicologico e del classico genere horror, facendo riferimento al Dracula di Stoker in vari punti e, a volte, replicandone la storia.