Director Tobe Hooper's entire career had stalled a tad after the flop of the troubled but worthwhile "Eaten Alive". Other projects had to be done and were to his credit. Stephen King's popular pulp success "Salems Lot" (1975) had been a great best seller with its Gothic atmosphere and sense of conquering moodiness and a hostile threat to the American blue collar everyday world. Here Hooper had another directing job and went with it. It proved a great television success as we
