Salem's Lot Let Me In Mark, He Commands It!!

[Richardhedditch261]

" Bright boy - Mark Petrie ", said schoolteacher, Jason Burke.

[Cap285]

If you're one of those stupid, bitch Twilight fans, this is what vampires are all about. Take your Twilight and stick it up your ass.

Thanks for posting!

[hulkster46a]

I need too buy the dvd of this movie. Anyone know if its out on blu-ray?

[marixalilith]

my fav vampire film and book....

[eewakk]

danny was awsome but ralphie was better when danny was in the hospital.

[marixalilith]

@eewakk ralphie was so fucking creepy...

[themusickey12]

Barlow looked very much like Count Orlock from the 1929 film Nosferatu. I did like the makeup though and it is and was very scary. This attempted suduction scene by Danny Glick made me think of a slight homosexual seduction. Although there were no sexual intonations toward Mark, i felt a hint. It was more clear when Ralphie came for Danny.

[fireman75ification]

This is what vampires are supposed to look and act like. The bs they've got goin today is ridiculous.

[dknygirl100]

esa peli no la veo de noche.....uuhhhh que miero....!!!!

[Richardhedditch261]

In the words of Jason Burke, the school teacher : " Bright boy, Mark Petrie".

[okcomputer1016]

@ohiospankster Awesome

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

@ohiospankster I see your point about meeting in the Church. I just don't think Marks parents really took him seriously!! I mean try telling your parents that you have just seen your dead friend in the window lol...They thought he was dreaming!!! That's why they had the priest come over and talk with Mark. Please remember the Petries didn't know there was a vampire epidemic going on. If they did they would have seeked sanctuary in the Church i'm sure.

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

Good point though, I don't really think Straker was mortal he took 6 gun shots, and the way he picked up Susan Nortons father!! It was like he weighed 30 pounds lol..Where did he get that kind of strength?

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

@ohiospankster Yes they should have been in a church, but they don't live in the church? So it would have been just a matter of time before The Master vampire entered the home of Marks parents!! Either way it was now or later.

[kenmarv71]

Scary shit! I can remember watching this scene on CBS as an 8-year old. Eyes glowing; scratching on a window; then the music. They don't do horror like they use to.

[CoHScrapper]

"Open the window, Mark."

"I'll open the window free if you answer me these questions three."

(1) "What... is your name?"

(2) "What... is your quest?"

(3) "What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

[samanbandana]

i shat bricks the first time i watched this!

[natasha5965]

and i thought the exorcist scared me

this thing just takes the f****n cake

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

Please!!!!!! Let me in

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

What if Mark opened the Damn window?? Because of his actions he got a visit from THE MASTER!! And the Master killed Mark's parents. Guess he should of opened the window.

[libertyordeaf]

@phantasm091 I read somewhere that it was to do with the casting of James Mason as Straker. Apparently they cast him first, before Barlow, but then they couldn't find anyone more creepy and foreboding than Mason. So Tobe Hooper went for the nosferatu option, where the vampire said nothing and Mason was pulling all the strings. But of course this changed the whole storyline from the book.

[lawnmowerman7]

the music helps make this movie terrifying. id never sleep again if i was that kid

[okcomputer1016]

HOW COME the gravedigger dude just showed up inside the house of the old man teacher (in the rocking chair); Barlow crashes through the window of Mark's family's kitchen; there's clearly no "vampire must be invited in" rule, right? Then what about these scenes where the kids are knocking on the window asking to be let in? Why don't they just crash through the window? Ha.

[MRDJBUNZ]

@okcomputer1016 Barlow must have been somewhat powerful to bypass that rule.

[msudreaming]

@Adiron72 pun intended?

[bannanajuice1]

the reason why the quality is bad is because someone put video camera in front of the telly and then put it on youtube

[bannanajuice1]

i dont think i could watch this movie on my own and now i couldnt never sleep with the curtains open havnt seen this in years

[mike74ny]

Id be to scared to use the crucifix, I wouldn't want to piss it off!

[Thevampireprincess11]

I just saw this and now I have a sighn in my window that says 'Don't even ask me to open this window 'cause you are NOT invited!!!!' LOL

[klutzfan334]

My next door neighbours comes and knocks on my window and tells me to let him in. One guy on our block opened it nd my neighbour started biting him. He's not a vampire but he's a nutter and it still is pretty freaky

[ChainsmokingPothead]

eh y'all are too easily scared. :D the only vampire that wuz actually any cool at all in this movie wuz the master. but he wuzn't scary and neither where those. but it's still a good movie though.

[markyhitch]

This film had the best vampires. This scene creeped me out more because my name is Mark.

[sammylane21]

@markyhitch This made or really this scene makes you kinda too paranoid to peek out the window late at night huh??Kinda like right now!!Wholly shit!!What the hell was thing??LOOK!!!!!

[doctorw2]

how could he go back to bed after that?

[KK872]

@doctorw2 I think he thought he was dreaming. He looks a little confused before his dad comes in

[samanbandana]

fuck why did i watch this! its 1:20am and im alone in the house!

[KiCreativeStudios]

THIS is what Vampires are supposed to be!!

[APRINCESSTALE]

Lection after this scene:

1.-Keep the fucking door closed.

2.-Always maintain charged your .357 magnun

3.-Not leave the religion. anyone its good

4.-Don´t see Twilight.

[blunklaura]

@APRINCESSTALE You mean 4.- Don't watch True Blood....that one is closer to the 'true nature' (if you can call it that) of vampires of all sorts!

[bingbang3214]

I'm about 460 pages into reading the book, havent seen the movie but it is an awesome book. I plan on watching the movie after I read the book.

[chelseagurl97]

Mark actually fucked up, he did alright but he should have tried to stake and behead that Glick bastard so he couldnt go out and infect anyone else.

[ryanspeed]

Damn, can we get a better quality clip!?

[james737m]

Doesnt Danny ask to come in before Mark just waltzes over and opens to window without saying a word?

[bingbang3214]

@james737m yes and then sticks a toy with a cross on dannys cheek.

[drumdude46]

worst, most grainy frickin' picture i've ever seen.

Question: Why even Post this. horrible.

[panter212]

Great scene and terror movie..! Those Who saw it at that time, changed the way and feeling to look at the dark window in their room at the middle of the night... evil can reach children too... and not only the adults...thats why this movie is really creepy cuz int the past evil was only thought for adults and this movie shows could reach anyone... Super vampire book and movie!!!!

[Richardhedditch261]

And - Danny Glick is coming over to Mark's place - this time in the middle of the night - whether or not to continue rehearsing lines for the school pageant - so it must necessarily be that Danny Glick has "finished his homework"; and so wants Mark to open the window to let him in. Danny Glick has " finished his homework ! "

[Richardhedditch261]

A doll or pupprt thing like a boy dressed in a suit is part of the regalia in Mark Petrie's bedroom earlier in this production. It can be clearly seen as Mark recites aloud to himself for the school play.

[chelseagurl97]

Black Sabbath, Wurdalak, segment 4

[PrinceNoctisCaelum]

I guess these vampires aren't the type to just smash through windows to get inside. Expect maybe that blue skinned Nosferatu wannabe, Barlow.

Imagine the terror if you hear a window break downstairs right after confronting one of these demons at your window. The next thing you know, there a pair of faintly glowing eyes off in the distance of your pitch black hallway pacing towards the partially opened door of your room.

[sammylane21]

@PrinceNoctisCaelum Well it's because of the times that this movie was made,it was then that authors told people through their books that in order for a vampire to kill you you had to be either outside or invite them into your home.Now for the sake of this movie that scared the crap outta me as a little girl this was a perfectly creepy scene as it did the same as The Exorcist did which was traumatize me into sleeping w/ all the lights on in my room until my folks told their not real.And you??

[MissVee17]

OMG! I was terrified of this as a kid! I was about six when it came out but didn't actually see it until about 5 years later. I never slept for ages afterwards!

[GodsOutlaw1964]

that vampire at one point seems to be having trouble with his fangs,right before Mark turns his head.

[Waistgunner39]

All of this,literally frightening as can be,just goes to show how good a writer Stephen King is - focuses on things we had never given any thought to before and as a result scares the hell out of us.

[chelseagurl97]

@Waistgunner39 Not really, he kind of lifted this whole scene from the Creature of Croglin Grange.

[Waistgunner39]

I'm not familar with that one...I only know that this film -shown on TV at the time- scared the crap out of me; I was sure that King had come up with it. Yes, we should definitely read the book

[chelseagurl97]

@Waistgunner39 Look it up and you will see remarkable similiarities, Stephen King was influenced for sure. Also see Boris Karloff in The Wurdalak, a related scene with vampire child.

And I don't want to hear it from all of you King fanatics coming to his defense.

[Waistgunner39]

Well  - Excuse the Hell out of me !!!!!

[warrior12473]

chelseagurl97, there is always influence of something else when people have ideas, whether you are talking about music, art, or writings. The writers usually take those influences and shape them into their own creation. There's nothing wrong with that. Just look at this film. It's obvious that the writers, producers and directors were influenced by Nosferatu instead of making the Barlow that King wrote of in the book.

[chelseagurl97]

@warrior12473 Yes but The Creature of Croghlin Grange is a little too close to artistic theft for my sensibilities playboy.

[warrior12473]

chelseagurl97, you make a good point. I guess it all depends on our own interpretation .

[1dudeman2]

people read the book...please

[400SA]

Open the window Mark! It's ok, I'm your friend!!

AWESOME movie!

[fatbaby73]

Gosh this part of the movie terrified me for years after I first watched it. I believe I was about 7, and I was a huge S&H fan and didn't know what I was getting myself into. I couldn't stand for my curtians or blinds to be open at night,I was always seeing shadows and hearing things outside my window. That went on til I was probably 10. I still don't like looking out my window at night. It just creeps me out.

[malaysniac]

'Vampire knocks on the window'  : I need about tree fiddy.

[gogiants878]

tree fiddy!!!!!!  Doddam Lochness monster!

[warrior12473]

malaysniac, you made me laugh my a** off!!!

[hillbby]

Id open the window and let him give me some fella tee oh!

[mikey42]

I'm with ya, Josey. We are living a true horror story right now.

[chelseagurl97]

Gruesome dead pale face with wolfish yellow eyes and huge fangs, now this is a vampire, a horrible evil creature you want to destroy, not a love interest like in Twilight, where did we go wrong as a society? I guess vampires started going downhill with Anne Rice.

[KuronekoxAlchemist]

I totally agree with you. Vampire are supposed to be scary bloodsuckers, not vegeterian stoners.

[chelseagurl97]

Rock on dood. They are demon possessed corpses that break your heart when they kill your sweetie or family member,and make desolate your neighborhood, and though so much more powerful than most people they are vanquished by humans who have their act together like Dr.Van Helsing or Ben Mears.

[rog197236]

You mean Vegan stoners

[colinsmyth99]

A quick wank and he'll be asleep in no time.

[dorkalecki]

Ralphie is much scarier than Danny, I don't know why. He used to scare me to death, haha.

[streltski88]

Mebbe cuz Ralph shuts up and gets his work done, Danny talks too much, production wayyyyyy down.

[44excalibur]

That's because Ralphie never spoke. His presence was a lot more eeire than Danny's. Ralphie looked like a fiend.

MWUHAHAHAHAHA!

[dnd1007]

Yeah, he scares the shit out of me too. Still!

[GRANDOVERLORD77]

Open the window Mark, it's me Im your friend.

[lolaxgoth]

I hate danny glick!!! he scares the shit out of me lmao

[coolcelt]

Ralphie Glick scares me more,

The kid looked pure evil floating in Dannys window....

[chelseagurl97]

He just wants to come in and hang out with Mark for a little bit. How rude of Mark to tell him to go pound sand.

[rog197236]

Pound sand?.I don't think Mark is a homosexual.

[breceda1025]

About two past comments. 1) It's the faith in the cross what reppels the vampire. That because in the book it speaks about good and evil not christianity 2) "He commands it" (the vampire master) and Mark fights against the vampire kid hypnotism

[Richardhedditch261]

Was the cross that Mark plucks off the toy scene in any way sanctified,in order for it to have in reality been effective in repelling a vampire?

[coolcelt]

They aint real mate, so doesnt really matter does it. Just in case you didnt know and were having nightmares.....

Whats a sanctified cross anyway? You telling me all the crosses and crucifixes in the world are 'sanctified'?

It aint Holy Water.

[pj1974]

foolish me for watching this all alone, in a dark room late at night. first saw this as a young kid, it terrified me then and still does now.

[rancoreater]

Stephen King rocks!

[rancoreater]

I don't care if he commands it, you are not commin inside! This movie is freaky shit!

[ritid69]

that is like one of my hangovers

[arachnoblaster]

Nah, he never opened it the cunt. I had to spend the night in the fucking tool shed...

[smpoiler]

Open the bloody window u weak poof! He is ur best mate after all. Hes probably been out on the piss all nite & just needs sumwhere 2 crash.

[doctorw2]

as mr king would so amptly put it when i saw this i was scared shitless.

[HarryEtTubMan]

I'm reading this book right now!!! It's amazing.

Stephen King rules.

[HarryScab2k6]

AAAAAAGH!ITS TWEENIES!

[cosmicblak]

I just finished the book. Easly the scariest book I have read. Now I want to see the movie.

They say "It" is scarier.

[Irish0Virus]

'Salem's Lot is the best Vampire book i've read. Psh! There's no way It is scarier. The only book that is scarier than 'Salem's Lot, is Pet Semetary or The Shining.

[Silverbrink]

I love all the classic Stephen Kings. x333

Lot is my personal favorite, though.

[eclecto]

"open the window, open the window mark" this shit still scares me to death.

Great film!

[fjones1914]

I'll be goddamned if I could just climb back into bed after some shyte like that!!!!!!!

"Shaking like a leaf" comes to mind!!!!

[sandersrms]

That's what I'm saying! LOL!

[MissVee17]

@fjones1914 Or "shaking like a shitting dog" as we say where I come from!

[originalmonkeysbum]

fucking hell, peter pan it aint!

[dresden67]

man when I was kid after seeing this did not want to sleep near window and made sure there was no spooky fog if I did..."open the window mark" the 4 scariest words ever spoken..still get goose bumps hearing now

[annita645]

is scared

[myworld64]

thats just 1 man's opinion. i think the top horror films are serpent ad the rainbow and jaws

[electricturf]

My top three favorite horror films:

1. Night of the Living Dead

2. Halloween

3. The Evil Dead

[christopheros]

Classics man.

[originalmonkeysbum]

great choices there!they make shit nowadays

[electricturf]

This film, although a masterpiece by Hooper, is not scary. But I guess it's just me, because I hardly find a film scary. This film however, is one of my favorites.

[pescatarian09]

Still guaranteed to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck when it's late at night and the wind's blowing outside. I'm 36 and I don't think I could watch Salem's Lot on my own! It probably seems tame nowadays but if you saw it when you were a kid, I bet it left a lasting impression.

[18andreab]

@pescatarian09 Hi there. Oh yes. Hairs on back of neck erectus! Great movie.

[ran12801]

@pescatarian09 agree completely still scares hell out of me saw it when i was 12

[TheSawman86]

@pescatarian09 yeah i did and i still does scare the shit out of me

[prkendora]

@pescatarian09 Most of us first saw this film when we were kids. I can't help but to think that the film, "Let Me In", may have been inspired by this one eerie scene. I could be wrong.

[Arkstrikle]

as a joke u tap on your friends window after they have seen the film at night..

[freakystyley73]

lol...i used to climb up 3 storeys to get to my friends window, used to scare the fucking shit out of them!! i used to wet my finger and rub on the glass slow n hard. when they got close to the window I slammed the window frame really loudly and screamed. hhaha...that was fun...seeing them fall backwards (like that was gonna help!)

[portuguesehulkamania]

disapointing...in the book he tells him to come in and sticks the cross in his face...

[XRAPLESYRUPX]

He's right, No need to give him a thumbs down.The book contrasts to the movie but irregardless the movie was awesome.

[Imerica1]

I loved them BOTH. I read the book 3 times ... with the lights on... and I watched the movie 36 times...the newer version, I watched about 9 times.

I love this movie...because it scared the bejeebus out of me!Still does.

[cowzorz]

Great stuff. That Mark kid is so brave.

[dazafc]

SAID B4!If, now this is hypothetically speaking, a dead friend of mine, and I can very much appreciate that thay were GOOD MATES, came floating around my bedroom window, ''tssk' tssk'' ing to get in.... the only way on God's Holy fucking earth that the cunt would get in..... is if I had the POPE, the DALAI LLAMA & EVERY LIVING LEADER OF EVERY RELIGION.... To put some moves on that dead EX-FRIENDS ARSE!!! JESUS HIMSELF WOULD BE NAILED TO THE FUCKING CRUCIFIX I STUCK ON THE TWATS HEAD! BLESS!LOL

[freakystyley73]

im guessing ur irish?

[dazafc]

NAH, MATE... ENGLISH... WITH DRIBBLE OF OIRISH DER SOMEWHERE!!! LOL... Was a joke... I'd let the fucker in and cage him!! Heard fun fairs will pay a few quid these days for a good freak show exhibit... ermmmmmm... present company excepted... naturally!! lol

Take care.....

PS.. 'wet your finger and rub...slow n hard' are you sure u posted to the right video?? pmfsl ;-)

[freakystyley73]

lol...i have lots of irish mates and they talk like that all the time. wasn't meant as a negative comment. lol mad expressions.

yeah u funny bastard, this was the right vid! LOL

[lpoolno1]

how cud tht kid goto sleep after see'in tht lmfao! he has sum balls

[toribaltimore]

he's a pimp?♂

[castingtherunes]

Was that vampire Mitt Romney as a kid?

[castingtherunes]

It took a TV movie of all things to get vampires right - nerve shatteringly scary! There was a lot of good TV horror movies back in the 70s/80s.

[NellyNoel]

that wasn't as scary as the book made it to be =( kinda dissapointed

[72grantorino]

38 years old and this still fucking scares me!

[foppa123]

I saw it in 1979, and it still haunts me, especially Barlow, and I'm also 38.

[ninelivecat]

Mark finds his faith Great scene

[onemorethingsir]

The 'haunting' music makes it scarier too, this is one horror film that made me sleep with the light on!! I wouldn't like to see it on my own late at night again....yeah I admit I've got a yellow streak.

[xnarutoxhokage]

I remember reading the book to this and thought that kid hd some serious balls letting a vampire in and shoving a cross in his face

[deathmetellica]

Saw the film yesterday. I don't get scarred quickly but that film was like hell!

[jagettainc]

I agree. This film and "IT" gave me nightmares as a kid.

[mediomiedo]

esto es lo que me ha dado mas miedo en peliculas de horror

[wilkesart]

this scares me more than the modern horrors, you cant beat a classic

[GlitterCroft07]

This still scares me, even now.

[0xStayGoldx0]

ARGGHHH!!!!!!! :(

[catholicireland4ever]

thats some scary stuff......

[cowboyswin2007423]

It appears a small clip was either edited out or was this from the two-hour edition?

[11Chaos76]

This is taken from the 2 hour (German) edition. I recently purchased the full version on double disc.

Yes, there are a lot of differences between the full 4 episode-series and the TV-movie edition.

I strongly recommend anyone who REALLY wants to experience the unparallelled terror of the original Salem's Lot, to watch the 3 hour version. It has a lot more in depth for characterization.

[scotros]

this scene scared the hell outta me when I first saw it...the vampires in salem's lot are some of the scariest EVER, especially mr. barlow. I love the way tobe hooper changed his character from the book...Barlow is truly evil!

[dischordantbelief]

Check out the boom that Danny is sitting on. Lol, should have spotted that Hooper!

[foppa123]

Danny also says..."No, Mark." I didn't see that in this clip, what gives?

[baz94]

You notice the change in sound. It probably jumped when transferring to pc from vcr.

[skaman1970]

Simply the best horror film and scene EVER!!! It maybe nearly 30 year's old but, for me it's the ultimate.

[Ruberneck]

these windows scenes in this movie were extremely freaky, scared the absolute shit out of me and my brothers...i was nine..I couldn't look at my window for weeks. Great stuff however. I remeber thinking that 'mark' was unbelievably brave..

[jerndy1969]

your right, the window scenes in the movie scared the shit out of me as well!!

[DBarns7]

The music for this was great. It really enhanced the movie, especially in this scene. It was really scary with Danny's ghastly face and blazing eyes.

[SellawEvets]

Personally I thought his brother Ralphie was scarier as a vampire kid.

[DBarns7]

True enough, especially when Ralphie came to the hospital to finish Danny off. Quite terrifying.

[MEDELENA]

I love This movie , many times I treated to remember it...Thanks, who is the actor (Marc)?

[SellawEvets]

Mark was played by Lance Kerwin; Danny played by well-known 70s child star Brad Savage.

[baz94]

Brad Savage? that the dad of Fred and... cant remember his brothers name but fred and brother were quite well known too.

[SellawEvets]

I believe that's Ben Savage of BOY MEETS WORLD fame.

[baz94]

That's the guy.

Are they his boys?

[foppa123]

nope, just checked imdb

[WZ912]

I loved the power of the Cross somethings that greatly needed in today's vamp and horror movies among other things. Nice post!

[foppa123]

great horror

[twirlfingers99]

Great scene, when I was a kid it scared the crap out of me,still does.

[DoctorDee5100]

Same here, mate.

[Nintendog140]

same here 2 m8