11. Salem’s Lot (1979)
I just couldn’t resist including the master of horror’s brief array into the vampire epic on our list. One of Stephen King‘s earliest novels, Salem’s Lot was initially made into a movie in 1979 and doesn’t disapoint King’s lofty status.
This film (and book before it, which I highly recommend) centers around a vampire epidemic in a town which has its own morbid history. Like many of King’s works, Salem’s Lot centers around a writer, who is eventually joined by an unlikely band of heroes trying to stem the tide of the unholy horde.
It was refreshing to see King (and later the filmmakers) take the overdone vampire topic seriously enough to make Salem’s Lot the badass film that it is.
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