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** Sandy [=McDougall=]. She abuses her baby, but she is only seventeen, stuck in a loveless shotgun marriage and living in a rundown trailer. She also feels sick with guilt about her abuse of her child (and breaks down completely when she finds him dead).
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** Sandy [=McDougall=]. She abuses her baby, but she is only seventeen, lonely and isolated, stuck in a loveless shotgun marriage and living in a rundown trailer.trailer, having had to give up her education, her friends and her dreams of becoming a model. She also feels sick with guilt about her abuse of her child (and breaks down completely when she finds him dead).
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: While ''Salem's Lot'' is still considered to be one of King's best books, after almost fifty years of Stephen King novels, the way he brings a whole community to life and weaves them into his horror plot can feel less novel and unique.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While ''Salem's Lot'' is still considered to be one of King's best books, after almost fifty years of Stephen King novels, the way he brings a whole community to life and weaves them into his horror plot can feel less novel and unique.
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* SignatureScene: The confrontation between Mike Ryerson and Jason Burke after Mike succumbs to the vampire infection. Creator/LewAyres and especially Creator/GeoffreyLewis play the scene to the hilt. With the added glowing eyes on Lewis, it remains one of the most terrifying scenes in the miniseries. Mention also needs to be made to the sequence where vampire Danny Glick attempts to get Mark Petrie to open his window and let him in.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Jeep the Ben character drives has an extreme problem with the driver's side door, to the point that in some shots when he's driving away, Creator/DavidSoul has to slam it repeatedly to get it to close.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Jeep the Ben character drives has an extreme problem with the driver's side door, to the point that in some shots when he's driving away, Creator/DavidSoul has to slam it repeatedly to get it to close.
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* FridgeBrilliance: How did Barlow enter Mark's family's home without an invitation first? We eventually learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: FridgeBrilliance:
** How did Barlow enter Mark's family's home without an invitation first? We eventually learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
** How did Barlow enter Mark's family's home without an invitation first? We eventually learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
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** King is a big [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Boston Red Sox]] fan, and at one point he has Ben and the Nortons discussing the team's "fading pennant chances" during a visit. As it happened, the very week the novel was published the Red Sox had won the pennant and were playing in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_World_Series one of the most memorable World Series of all time]].
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** King is a big [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Boston Red Sox]] fan, and at one point he has Ben and the Nortons discussing the team's "fading pennant chances" during a visit. As it happened, the very week the novel was published the Red Sox had won the pennant and were playing in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_World_Series one of the most memorable World Series of all time]].
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** That this wasn't immediately apparent when the novel was first published was actually a result of ExecutiveMeddling. King's original draft had Barlow's vampiric nature revealed much earlier in the story, but his editor at Doubleday suggested rewriting Part I to make the nature of the threat more ambiguous until TheReveal.
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** That this wasn't immediately apparent when the novel was first published was actually a result of ExecutiveMeddling. King's original draft had Barlow's vampiric nature revealed much earlier in the story, but his editor at Doubleday suggested rewriting he rewrite Part I to make keep the nature of the threat more ambiguous until TheReveal.
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** Whenever a resident of Salem's Lot is [[spoiler: attacked by a vampire, it's usually scary, but the phrase Creator/StephenKing frequently uses to describe the situation doesn't exactly sound scary and sounds more like someone accidentally falling over. "They fell on him."]]
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** Whenever a resident of Salem's Lot is [[spoiler: attacked by a vampire, it's usually scary, but the phrase Creator/StephenKing frequently uses to describe the situation doesn't exactly sound scary and sounds more like someone accidentally falling over. "They fell on him."]]
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* CatharsisFactor:
** [[spoiler: Straker being knocked unconscious by Mark, then violently killed and sucked dry by Barlow is a well-deserved death after everything he'd done]].
** Reggie Sawyer, a domestic abuser and rapist who threatened to murder someone, [[spoiler:ends up being murdered by that very same guy due to his cruelty]].
** [[spoiler:Barlow being staked to death by a ''very'' pissed off Ben while screaming in agony is a great relief to the reader after he spent the entire book stealing and ruining the lives of everyone in town.]]
** [[spoiler: Straker being knocked unconscious by Mark, then violently killed and sucked dry by Barlow is a well-deserved death after everything he'd done]].
** Reggie Sawyer, a domestic abuser and rapist who threatened to murder someone, [[spoiler:ends up being murdered by that very same guy due to his cruelty]].
** [[spoiler:Barlow being staked to death by a ''very'' pissed off Ben while screaming in agony is a great relief to the reader after he spent the entire book stealing and ruining the lives of everyone in town.]]
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** Whenever a resident of Salem's Lot is [[spoiler: attacked by a vampire, it's usually scary, but the phrase Creator/StephenKing frequently uses to describe the situation doesn't exactly ring scary and sounds more like someone accidentally falling over. "They fell on him."]]
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** Whenever a resident of Salem's Lot is [[spoiler: attacked by a vampire, it's usually scary, but the phrase Creator/StephenKing frequently uses to describe the situation doesn't exactly ring sound scary and sounds more like someone accidentally falling over. "They fell on him."]]
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* {{Narm}}: Barlow yelling "LET ME GOOOOOOO!" [[spoiler: at Ben as the latter is staking him]] is a bit giggle-worthy.
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** Barlow yelling "LET ME GOOOOOOO!" [[spoiler: at Ben as the latter is staking him]] is a bit giggle-worthy.
** Barlow yelling "LET ME GOOOOOOO!" [[spoiler: at Ben as the latter is staking him]] is a bit giggle-worthy.
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** Whenever a resident of Salem's Lot is [[spoiler: attacked by a vampire, it's usually scary, but the phrase Creator/StephenKing frequently uses to describe the situation doesn't exactly ring scary and sounds more like someone accidentally falling over. "They fell on him."]]
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** [[spoiler: Barlow killing Mark's parents is supposed to be terrifying, but the manner in which he kills them, by clanging their heads together, feels like it wouldn't be out of place in Film/TheThreeStooges.]]
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* SlowPacedBeginning: The first half is mostly about the day-to-day lives of the townsfolk. It picks up once the vampire shenanigans start happening.
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* FridgeLogic: How did Barlow enter Mark's family's home without an invitation first?
** FridgeBrilliance: We later learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
** FridgeBrilliance: We later learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
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* FridgeLogic: FridgeBrilliance: How did Barlow enter Mark's family's home without an invitation first?
** FridgeBrilliance:first? We later eventually learn [[spoiler:in the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' that Barlow really is [[TimeAbyss far older than Christianity itself]], so it's probably safe to assume that being so powerful he was able to ignore this rule.]]
** FridgeBrilliance:
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* {{Narm}}: Barlow yelling, [[spoiler:"LET ME GOOOOOOO!" at Ben as the latter is staking the former.]]
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* {{Narm}}: Barlow yelling, [[spoiler:"LET yelling "LET ME GOOOOOOO!" [[spoiler: at Ben as the latter is staking the former.]]him]] is a bit giggle-worthy.
