Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

horrorfan198129 Michael Moriarty stars as a man returning to Jerusalem,s (Salem's) lot with his son after inheriting a house from his aunt with the intentions of rekindling their father/son relationship, but its not long before they realise something is not right. I saw this and the original 1979 on VHS 20 years ago, this film had me in stitches with the bad acting and what looked like bad tomato sauce fake blood, did the film makers decided to make a vampire movie and cash in on a sequel to Salem's Lot and ruin it.if you want a movie to watch if you are bored try this, you might just end up falling asleep to it.

FlashCallahan A man meets up with his son after a long absence, so they decide to take a trip together. It turns out that he has a legacy at Salem and makes his way there.Oh the nightlife is lovely, but not much goes on in the day....If you ever see this movie, please bear in mind that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the original King TV movie. That was suspenseful, well acted, and most importantly, scary.This is similar in name only, and if you watch it as a comedy, rather than the spine chilling horror it never is, you will have a ball.Moriarty is a lot of fun in his role, but he just plays concerned parent, followed by a man who shouts at old people for no good reason, and then someone who teams up with the oldest action hero ever, to take down the worlds oldest vampire, and their leader who gets so angry, he has to put on a silly mask.But he stays there because he doesn't want his son to turn. After all, they have a great relationship, and his son isn't someone you'd like to leave in the middle of the road because he's obnoxious and acts like a total moron.Tara Reid shows up every now and again, but gets so fed up With everything, decides to get in a coffin which is on fire. And she does it so slowly and so graceful. Literally.If you want ninety minutes of really bad acting, and just a load of unintentional laughs, this will suffice.If you want terror and genuine chills, see the original.

medelste Return To Salem's Lot fits into a select category of films I like to label ONE A.M. HBO Specials. These were the films HBO showed to death between 11pm and 6am during the mid-to-late 80s, when there weren't 500 other movie channels to choose from. HBO never showed Casablanca or other TCM-type classics, so their stable was somewhat limited. Some were cheap teen-sex comedies (Summer Job, Bikini Car Wash Company), while others were cheapie underground horror flicks (Clownhouse, Student Bodies, Night of the Creeps). RTSL falls into the latter category. If you watch this film the way it was likely intended to be seen (as a campy drive-in special, worth viewing at 2am simply because it beats watching Sha-Na-Na), then it can be quite entertaining in its way. Many of these 1am cheesefests also featured unknown up-and-coming stars (Clownhouse had Sam Rockwell, RTSL has Tara Reid), as well as established actors at the tail-ends of their careers (Andrew Duggan is downright wonderful in RTSL).Granted, not every horror film is The Shining. But movies like RTSL definitely have their place.

ken2903 I knew it was going to be bad but i had no idea. I tried to keep an open mind and view it without comparing it to Salem's Lot but it was still sh't.The main character kept making some stupid stupid decisions that just didn't make sense. He had such a hard on to write a history/bible for this community of vampires that he just about lets them vampirize his son? I know its implied that he has experience with different cultures but who stumbles across a town of vampires and then lets their teenage son talk him out of leaving?I'm trying to think of something nice to say about it and all i can come up with is that there was a pretty decent pair of vampire bewbs (not Tara Reid) that were shown on two occasions and the Nazi hunter guy was partially interesting.In conclusion, i believe that if RTSL was a dinosaur it would be a lameasaurus Rex.3/10