I liked the scene in the book in which after being humiliated by Sawyer, the guy returned as a vampire, threw Sawyer against the wall, and proceeded to make love and turn his wife while Sawyer sat crouched and screaming.
The edited "movie" version omitted the character development that made the mini-series so great. A simple rule of writing - the better the character development the more the audience can identify with and care for the characters. It is funny though-that the "gun in the mouth" and "impaling" of Norton's death were deemed too violent for T.V. -Interesting. But by all means-get the mini-series! One of the best vampire films ever made-no doubt!!
I like the other version where Larry doesn't put his mouth into the gun, but the guy holding the shotgun had a voice that was just funny as hell. Great comic relief in this movie.
Yes, it's kind of confusing. Generally I refer to the full-length, 3-hour version as "unedited", but actually it is edited because this scene was removed, as was the full shot of Bill Norton's death. For TV they only showed a close-up of his face (although a still picture of the full shot was included in the tie-in paperback.) That's why I still have my VHS of the 2-hour "movie" version - I can't bear to part with it since those scenes aren't on the miniseries DVD.
@Lotmeister From what I can tell, it appears as though they shot this scene twice, and didn't simply edit the version where he holds the barrel up to his face. The dialog in the other version is different (better actually) as well.
I am surprised when the movie was put on dvd they didn't add Bill Norton's full death.Was Bill Norton a character in the novel? If so was he a doctor? There was no Bill Norton in the Rob Lowe version
@bhindthosegreeneyes Yes, Bill Norton is in the novel, but he is not a doctor. IIRC he is a blue-collar worker and a relatively minor character. (Susan's mother plays a bigger part in the story.) In the novel, the doctor is a younger man named Jimmy Cody. The two characters were combined for the movie, as were several other characters.
my take is on this being the o0riginal and probably one of the very best vampire movies ever why would you hire a guy like rob lowe to do a shitty remake and a return to salem's lot sucked to.
So, what happens to Cully and his wife? Last I saw, They were driving through town, and the wife has a big bruise on her face from Cully's domestic violence. Then, they disappear from the movie!
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES we used to drive by his house all the time but we never got to go inside for Halloween but I had friends that did. I knew people who were always running into Stephen King but I was never so lucky. I did see him speak one time which was fun. He's such a man of the people! From what I heard he built a baseball field for Old Town and I never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him.
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...you survive a jealous husband's wrath only to fall into the hands of a vampire. That's got to "suck."
I bought the DVD a few years ago that is supposedly the US movie version and it has the wimpy edit of this, no barrels in the mouth. Guess I'll have to try one more time to get the full uncut movie version, it's a bit confusing...
Love this film! I watch it at least once at year, every year, just like The Shining. There are a few things I might have done slightly differently, but I like how Mr. Barlow is a inhuman creature that doesn't talk, very, very creepy!
A little trivia..the actress playing Cully's wife in the '79 version is married to the actor playing the priest in the Rob Lowe version (James Cromwell).
I know, it was a very upsetting episode of Star Trek, she get's wasted, by some aliens, as an example to Kirk not to disobey them, a very attractive lady, should have been in more films
Actually, this version was shown on tv in the original airing of the miniseries, in 1979. That original version was over three hours long. A chopped up two hour version was sold on vhs several years later, and the part about putting the barrel in the mouth was cut to shorten the scene. The shorter version was so badly chopped up that unless you already knew the story, it didn't make sense from one cut up scene to the next. Worst edit I ever saw. But my original US tv version has this scene.
This scene was shown in the UK... remember it well.
My freinds and I were glued to the mini-series!
I thought the editied-down TV-movie version was way weaker, and the Rob Lowe remake was kind of behind-the-times... horror fiction had moved on since then.
Barlow doesn't make a vampire of Larry Crockett;as Crockett rushes out of the Cullen residence. Crockett has a fatal heart attack as Barlow is upon him. Then,I reckon,Cullen and his missus drive "a car and a truck" to the "Lake",where Ben Mears and Susan Norton find Crockett in the car.That's what I think happened.
It must have been "Boom boom Barnie,aka "Cully",and his missus[who Crockett was having an affair with and who worked at his real-estate agency] who put Crockett in his car,drove him out to "the Lake",and left him there in his deceased state. Otherwise,how did the detectives find Crocketts' clothes at the site of Crockett's discovery - the clothes he disrobed from to join Cullen's wife "in her own little bed". Riddle me - why is that not the case?
Yes' that is actually correct. I just watched this movie agian a few months back, And hi's wife was screwing Larry behind Cully's back. I always thought Cully needed hi's bolts tightened.
I'm reading the book now and it's fucking awesome! It's so creepy because when they die to become vampires there loved ones act as if there still alive and talk to them ect. Awesome book so far CANT wait till i get to this part i know im close to it.
This was well made really. I think they do a great job. Mmm... I'm remembering that bold and mute Barlow... Well, that could be better, but just the same, this is a good film, tv film I mean.
This whole scene is wrong anyway. In the book, it isn't Crockett who is screwing the guys wife, it's a kid named Corey. He sticks the gun in his mouth, and Corey shits himself. While he's outside feeling embarrassed, he runs into Barlow at the edge of a field. They have a conversation, and it turns to talk of revenge. Barlow hypnotizes him with his power and bites him. In the book, Barlow is like dracula...not a big blue zombie like in the movie
James Mason does not have that long fingers/nails.
Barlow possibly just bumped into Crockett when he was flying over town, looking for something to eat.
Also Crockett meeting Barlow was hinted; Straker told Crockett (who was asking about Barlow all the time) that he would meet Barlow very soon and that he would find it a "pleasure".
This version of the scene was included in the two-hour cut of the movie called "Salem's Lot: The Movie" made for syndication and VHS which was supposed to be more violent than the original TV version. Because the full-length version on VHS and now on DVD is supposed to be like the TV broadcast, this and one other scene (where Bill Norton is impaled by Straker on the wall of stakes) are different than the scenes in the shorter cut.
it's true the mini series has all kinds of stuff the movie didn't keep,it took several nights to show it, there wasn't cable in our town so all the kids talked about it @ school that week.i don't know why they called this alternate it's the only version
Bollocks. The three hour version is the full length feature film. The two hour mini-series is just that, a scaled down version of the full length feature film. Email Warners if you're unsure.
I think you've got the two confused mate. The 183-minute version is what originally aired on TV (just check the DVD which splits it into two parts as originally aired); the 112-minute version is what screened at European cinemas in 1979.
No, it was originally made and shown as a mini-series, not a film. A two hour film version was created by editing down the original three hour content to a two hour running time.
I wouldve done the same. U rock Culley !
djandrewmichael 1 month ago
I liked the scene in the book in which after being humiliated by Sawyer, the guy returned as a vampire, threw Sawyer against the wall, and proceeded to make love and turn his wife while Sawyer sat crouched and screaming.
enterprise160 2 months ago
Cully Sawyer is a fucking badass.
BetterOnichThanSorry 2 months ago
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The Nosferatu-type vampires are by far the ugliest.
enterprise160 4 months ago
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enterprise160 4 months ago
Superb acting. Talk about tension!!!
BadFlyingV69 4 months ago
I just watched this movie and even the 3 hour version seemed to fly by.
I'd hate to see the 2 hour one because even the 3 hour version wasn't long enough. They could have added a lot more stuff to the story.
lineba20 9 months ago
The edited "movie" version omitted the character development that made the mini-series so great. A simple rule of writing - the better the character development the more the audience can identify with and care for the characters. It is funny though-that the "gun in the mouth" and "impaling" of Norton's death were deemed too violent for T.V. -Interesting. But by all means-get the mini-series! One of the best vampire films ever made-no doubt!!
rickw1100 10 months ago
I like the other version where Larry doesn't put his mouth into the gun, but the guy holding the shotgun had a voice that was just funny as hell. Great comic relief in this movie.
ekul1021 11 months ago
Yes, it's kind of confusing. Generally I refer to the full-length, 3-hour version as "unedited", but actually it is edited because this scene was removed, as was the full shot of Bill Norton's death. For TV they only showed a close-up of his face (although a still picture of the full shot was included in the tie-in paperback.) That's why I still have my VHS of the 2-hour "movie" version - I can't bear to part with it since those scenes aren't on the miniseries DVD.
Lotmeister 1 year ago
@Lotmeister From what I can tell, it appears as though they shot this scene twice, and didn't simply edit the version where he holds the barrel up to his face. The dialog in the other version is different (better actually) as well.
wlmason73 10 months ago
@Lotmeister
I am surprised when the movie was put on dvd they didn't add Bill Norton's full death.Was Bill Norton a character in the novel? If so was he a doctor? There was no Bill Norton in the Rob Lowe version
bhindthosegreeneyes 10 months ago
@bhindthosegreeneyes Yes, Bill Norton is in the novel, but he is not a doctor. IIRC he is a blue-collar worker and a relatively minor character. (Susan's mother plays a bigger part in the story.) In the novel, the doctor is a younger man named Jimmy Cody. The two characters were combined for the movie, as were several other characters.
Lotmeister 10 months ago
@Lotmeister
Thanks for clearing that up.I do want to read the book one day!
bhindthosegreeneyes 10 months ago
@bhindthosegreeneyes I recommend it. In fact it's my favorite book of any genre.
Lotmeister 10 months ago
Those shorts are legendary! Who would turn down a man in a pair of red satin LCs? :D
DollfieEyes 1 year ago
my take is on this being the o0riginal and probably one of the very best vampire movies ever why would you hire a guy like rob lowe to do a shitty remake and a return to salem's lot sucked to.
Fultonfalcons86 1 year ago
Interesting Crockett dies at Barlow's hand....after everything he did for him too.....
speculate1 1 year ago
So, what happens to Cully and his wife? Last I saw, They were driving through town, and the wife has a big bruise on her face from Cully's domestic violence. Then, they disappear from the movie!
ctomarctus 1 year ago
salem s lot is canya like the nosferatu movie
only in salmes s lot he codnt talk and hes blue and in the nosferatu movie
well....its black and white so i dont know but he can talk
le5094 1 year ago
its the same
E10paki 1 year ago
Red silky boxers = FIERCE!!
LivingMindfully1975 1 year ago
Living in Maine at the time and this Movie was very scary. Much better then the remake.
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 1 year ago
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES I'm from Maine and Maine can be a creepy place. Stephen King always gets Maine and Maine people perfectly.
BlackRaven156 10 months ago
@BlackRaven156 I'm from Maine as well. We used to go to Stephen Kings House for Halloween . He lived in Bangor at the time.
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 10 months ago
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES we used to drive by his house all the time but we never got to go inside for Halloween but I had friends that did. I knew people who were always running into Stephen King but I was never so lucky. I did see him speak one time which was fun. He's such a man of the people! From what I heard he built a baseball field for Old Town and I never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him.
BlackRaven156 10 months ago
@BlackRaven156 I see him in Florida a few times. He's a huge Red Sox fan
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 10 months ago
almost exactly how it happened in the book except that he shit himself and fainted in the book.
ShitSmear69 1 year ago
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...you survive a jealous husband's wrath only to fall into the hands of a vampire. That's got to "suck."
reving19 1 year ago
'Mr Barlow' is Count Orlock from Murnau's 'Nosferatu' ?
Wolfspiderxl 2 years ago
this was in the original airing and dvd.You can find full movie on youtube and in that version susan and ben find him dead in the car.
Svenghoulie 2 years ago
No, not on the dvd release.
Deavi783 2 years ago
At least Mr Mr Straker is a man of his word. He promised Larry Crockett that he would be rewarded and at 1:44 he is - by Mr Barlow!
cookedit 2 years ago
I bought the DVD a few years ago that is supposedly the US movie version and it has the wimpy edit of this, no barrels in the mouth. Guess I'll have to try one more time to get the full uncut movie version, it's a bit confusing...
Love this film! I watch it at least once at year, every year, just like The Shining. There are a few things I might have done slightly differently, but I like how Mr. Barlow is a inhuman creature that doesn't talk, very, very creepy!
400SA 2 years ago
HEY, WHA' HAPPEND?
oeyesea 2 years ago
uh... this is the same scene that was in the movie already...
apologeticsman 2 years ago
where did you get this ?
dspikey 2 years ago
A little trivia..the actress playing Cully's wife in the '79 version is married to the actor playing the priest in the Rob Lowe version (James Cromwell).
judysullivan83107 2 years ago 3
She is also Lee J. Cobb's daughter. BTW She and David Soul also had small roles on the original Star Trek series.
nonsuchfabio 2 years ago
I know, it was a very upsetting episode of Star Trek, she get's wasted, by some aliens, as an example to Kirk not to disobey them, a very attractive lady, should have been in more films
Wolfspiderxl 2 years ago
Larry really should start going to the gym, if I looked like that Id never take my shirt off.
Ever since Nicky died in Vietnam, John has really gone downhill.Then he finds this joker ballin his wife, poor dood.
streltski88 2 years ago
I like the Barlow in this movie,just not the pointed ears.The ears make him look too alien.
yandrfan4ever 2 years ago
Yea but whose looking at the ears, how about the yellow eyes,black robe,huge fangs and horribe purple skin! He s the most horrible looking vamp ever.
streltski88 2 years ago
Actually, this version was shown on tv in the original airing of the miniseries, in 1979. That original version was over three hours long. A chopped up two hour version was sold on vhs several years later, and the part about putting the barrel in the mouth was cut to shorten the scene. The shorter version was so badly chopped up that unless you already knew the story, it didn't make sense from one cut up scene to the next. Worst edit I ever saw. But my original US tv version has this scene.
MRMETHOS1 2 years ago
This scene was shown in the UK... remember it well.
My freinds and I were glued to the mini-series!
I thought the editied-down TV-movie version was way weaker, and the Rob Lowe remake was kind of behind-the-times... horror fiction had moved on since then.
0bverse 3 years ago
the book was soooooooooooooooo muchh better but i think the movie was a decent adaptation theyy should remake it.
WTFallgoodnamestaken 3 years ago
They remade it in 2004..it was GOOD, also! Rob Lowe played Ben Mears in the updated one. The book was scary, I read it 3 times. lol
AfreeQueen 2 years ago
Barlow doesn't make a vampire of Larry Crockett;as Crockett rushes out of the Cullen residence. Crockett has a fatal heart attack as Barlow is upon him. Then,I reckon,Cullen and his missus drive "a car and a truck" to the "Lake",where Ben Mears and Susan Norton find Crockett in the car.That's what I think happened.
Richardhedditch261 3 years ago
no he was turned, just maybe not by the "master" maybe his wife or another townie.
razycrandomgirl 2 years ago
It must have been "Boom boom Barnie,aka "Cully",and his missus[who Crockett was having an affair with and who worked at his real-estate agency] who put Crockett in his car,drove him out to "the Lake",and left him there in his deceased state. Otherwise,how did the detectives find Crocketts' clothes at the site of Crockett's discovery - the clothes he disrobed from to join Cullen's wife "in her own little bed". Riddle me - why is that not the case?
Richardhedditch261 2 years ago
Yes' that is actually correct. I just watched this movie agian a few months back, And hi's wife was screwing Larry behind Cully's back. I always thought Cully needed hi's bolts tightened.
LoveIsADarkPlace 2 years ago
I like the Stephen King books of the 70's along with the movie adaptations they were as good as the novels
journeymanX 3 years ago
The book is great but much different than the movie. Both are great do yourself a favor and read and watch both.
lucybrown1 3 years ago
If I caught my old lady cheating that's what I would do...
arachnoblaster 3 years ago
i thought the scary part is when the husband screamed "im coming bonnie!" and then bonnie screamed. that was so creepy in the book!
KatieGrl77 3 years ago
I'm reading the book now and it's fucking awesome! It's so creepy because when they die to become vampires there loved ones act as if there still alive and talk to them ect. Awesome book so far CANT wait till i get to this part i know im close to it.
Sheldonthedragon 3 years ago
The remake was really bad. They need to leave these movies alone.
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 years ago 16
This was well made really. I think they do a great job. Mmm... I'm remembering that bold and mute Barlow... Well, that could be better, but just the same, this is a good film, tv film I mean.
rodrigoraulsuarez 3 years ago
In the book, he's scared shitless. Even wets himself when the husband walks in.. I don't think this is acurate. I mean, come on, he's SMILING.
cowzorz 3 years ago 2
I think this scene is not meant to be that serious. Black humour. It's the only humourous scene in the whole movie!
maxi937 3 years ago
Every good horror movie has this sort of unfunny vein of black humor woven into it if you really think about it.
StuffedMannequin 3 years ago
Just to confirm, is it Barlow who killed him?
foppa123 3 years ago
Yes, but indirectly. Crockett has an heart attack seeing Barlow.
Deavi783 3 years ago
how ya know it was Barlow? It's never mentioned.
foppa123 3 years ago
Who else would attack Crockett in the middle of the night? Barlow had just gotten out of his box.
Deavi783 3 years ago
Straker maybe. I always assumed it was Barlow, but can't imagine him standing on someone's lawn. How did Barlow know where Crockett was anyway?
foppa123 3 years ago
This whole scene is wrong anyway. In the book, it isn't Crockett who is screwing the guys wife, it's a kid named Corey. He sticks the gun in his mouth, and Corey shits himself. While he's outside feeling embarrassed, he runs into Barlow at the edge of a field. They have a conversation, and it turns to talk of revenge. Barlow hypnotizes him with his power and bites him. In the book, Barlow is like dracula...not a big blue zombie like in the movie
morecowbell69 3 years ago
I wish the old Barlow could have said something, but he is way better than the 04 version.
foppa123 3 years ago
Barlow was like that old Vampire Movie NOSFERATU, not like a zombie. Look it up and you will see he looks like him .
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 years ago 8
Yes...but he wan't in the book. In the book, he was cuning an intelligent. I the movie, he was Strakers brainless pet.
morecowbell69 3 years ago
Yes but the movie was great.
TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 years ago 3
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race
turtlen 1 year ago
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race
turtlen 1 year ago
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race
turtlen 1 year ago
...wow why give him a thumbs down, He is entirely correct. Read the fucking book before you crticize a true comment
XRAPLESYRUPX 3 years ago
Who cares about the book, this Barlow works well in terms of visonaly scary plus hes the one cleary in control of things.
almanacofsleep 3 years ago
maybe the master was patroling the streets and by coinsedense wen tht poor fella ran out was a perfect catch for him
lpoolno1 3 years ago
Straker maybe. I always assumed it was Barlow, but can't imagine him standing on someone's lawn. How did Barlow know where Crockett was anyway?
foppa123 3 years ago
Straker maybe. I always assumed it was Barlow, but can't imagine him standing on someone's lawn. How did Barlow know where Crockett was anyway?
foppa123 3 years ago
Straker maybe. I always assumed it was Barlow, but can't imagine him standing on someone's lawn. How did Barlow know where Crockett was anyway?
foppa123 3 years ago
James Mason does not have that long fingers/nails.
Barlow possibly just bumped into Crockett when he was flying over town, looking for something to eat.
Also Crockett meeting Barlow was hinted; Straker told Crockett (who was asking about Barlow all the time) that he would meet Barlow very soon and that he would find it a "pleasure".
Deavi783 3 years ago
it's hard to see the nails, but my gut says it's the Master though.
foppa123 3 years ago
either way both verisons both very intense.
dragonbreed07 4 years ago
This version of the scene was included in the two-hour cut of the movie called "Salem's Lot: The Movie" made for syndication and VHS which was supposed to be more violent than the original TV version. Because the full-length version on VHS and now on DVD is supposed to be like the TV broadcast, this and one other scene (where Bill Norton is impaled by Straker on the wall of stakes) are different than the scenes in the shorter cut.
Lotmeister 4 years ago
Never seen this version of this scene before...T4P :)
GlitterCroft07 4 years ago
Salem's Lot
Harunn04 4 years ago
This is not an alternate version.
I have this scene on a VHS I bought 15 years ago.
punditpete 4 years ago
Yes, I have the same VHS. There are two versions of the scene, and this is not the one on the current DVD releases. Hence it is alternate.
paintnothing 4 years ago
sorry. i should have read your notes first.
punditpete 4 years ago
where can I get the original
4 hour version
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
wobber999 4 years ago
hey im going on a trip soon and im looking for some good stephen king novel's to pass the time. any1 got any good ideas? what are your favorites?
hendrixman1515 4 years ago
I reccomend all his early work up to and including Misery.
His 2006 effort Cell showed a return to form.
punditpete 4 years ago
I ended up getting needful things. any good?
hendrixman1515 4 years ago
its ok though not one of his best.
I recomend Salems Lot and Pet Semetary.
punditpete 4 years ago
yeah but then again people have different tastes. the story really appealed to me.
hendrixman1515 4 years ago
it's true the mini series has all kinds of stuff the movie didn't keep,it took several nights to show it, there wasn't cable in our town so all the kids talked about it @ school that week.i don't know why they called this alternate it's the only version
of this seen.
cbn1949 4 years ago
change of pace for mr. willard
bigthunder420 4 years ago
I don't know about any of that but the one I saw with Rob lowe in it was freaking scary and made me go read the book which was even better
lns824 4 years ago
The two-hour buthered mini-series is a piece of worhtless fucking crap. Gimme the 3hr full length version any day over this shit.
discopiss 4 years ago
The three hour version is the miniseries, the two hour version is the feature film that was a cut down from it.
paintnothing 4 years ago
Bollocks. The three hour version is the full length feature film. The two hour mini-series is just that, a scaled down version of the full length feature film. Email Warners if you're unsure.
discopiss 4 years ago
I think you've got the two confused mate. The 183-minute version is what originally aired on TV (just check the DVD which splits it into two parts as originally aired); the 112-minute version is what screened at European cinemas in 1979.
paintnothing 4 years ago 6
No, it was originally made and shown as a mini-series, not a film. A two hour film version was created by editing down the original three hour content to a two hour running time.
KaitainCPS 4 years ago
he should've splattered cherry pie all over the wall, for humping his wife.
intrusosgang 4 years ago
David Hasselhoff?
Bluerayblue 4 years ago
ohhhhh the book was way more fucked up
the guy in the underwear shits his pants in the book. awesome.
CosmonautAndrew 4 years ago 2
There was an even longer version of that scene with more dialogue by the guy holding the gun in the movie version
yandrfan4ever 4 years ago
This film is bloody scary and I think this scene is better then the one on the DVD. I like stephen kinghe scares me.
allensfilms93 4 years ago
No it's not! On the DVD I bought he just holds the gun up to his head and then closes his eyes.
maxi937 4 years ago
"Where are you going?!"...LOL
Apcatpe 4 years ago
That's why you don't shag another man's wife!
Adrianrulz 4 years ago 3
LOL hey i knew someone would put this up...this is the most funniest part on salems lot... hahahaha funny
Westerntronic 4 years ago