best children's horror movie
Gremlins (1984)
shareSalem's Lot (1979). Permanently scarred a whole entire generation of children. ππππππππ
shareI carry those scars with pride! I can say... I was there when Salem's Lot was first shown! Those who know, know!!
"Look at me, teacher! Look at me!" π±
Great. Now I'm going to have trouble sleeping again. π
Salem's Lot is ranked as one of the best made-for-TV movies, although it was actually a miniseries.
shareYeah, no, it's not a miniseries. No matter how it's classified today. Two and three part made for television movies were always classified as just that. Made for television movies. Also called two or three part special television presentations as well as two or three part special television events. Never a miniseries. It's still not a miniseries. Calling these things miniseries is a more modern classification. Back then anything over a three-part television movie was considered a miniseries. Such as Roots, or Centennial, or North and South, or The Thorn Birds etc. Also horror movies were not classified as horror movies back then. They were classified as Thrillers.
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I was looking at the runtime and it totaled 3h 20m, which would make it an "epic." There were a number of those in the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it's too bad we see very few these days.
I read about the three parts being edited together for a planned theatrical release in Europe; I don't know if this ever happened or not.
It was 2 two hour installments. Not 3. The total movie time is 83mins. The rest consists of commercials, previews, recap, double opening credits and double closing credits etc. They never stitched anything together to make a theatrical movie in Europe. What they did was cut the full movie down and made a 1980 theatrical release in Europe and elsewhere which was a little under 2 hours long. They also made a shortened version that they showed one time on television during a Halloween season which was never released theatrically or on home video which was about 150 minutes worth of movie time that ran over a 3 hour period in one night.
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