For me this is one of the biggest images in cinema. George Dzunza is great. When he laughs and gets serious it is tremendous. Great Geroge Dzunza, a great actor
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...you survive a jealous husband's wrath only to fall into the hands of a vampire. That's got to "suck."
I remember this scene from watching it on Sci-fi Channel back in the 90’s. I always thought it was strange seeing Fred Willard in this small role because he was always a funny guy. Rest In Peace, Fred.
I knew I wasn't crazy! (Well, referring to this scene anyway...) This is the version I remember seeing as a kid- 20 years later and I'm thinking 'I thought he puts the shotgun in his mouth, when do we see his teeth?' Okay I need to get a life.
Chances are pretty high I would assume. There are vampires stalking through the town at night, so chances are someone who is outside at night is going to run into a vampire. If he would have gotten away from the guy with the gun and out the door in a town without vampires, chances are very low that a vampire would be waiting outside anywhere to get him. Unless, of course it was a vampire that had been on it's way to Salems Lot and was just passing through this vampire-free town, and he happened to be at the wrong place, wrong time.
Watching the Blu-ray release that has Hooper's commentary. So, here is what he said about this scene. It is indeed NOT on the full length TV mini-series version (hence why it's not on the DVD nor the new Blu-ray.) it actually was shot as part of the cut down "theatrical release", which is a 90 minute hour movie that was also released on VHS. It is shorter than the mini-series. Hooper maintains he never liked that short version - but he goes back and forth on this particular scene. It was written that he puts the gun in his mouth in King's book. So, if you have this on VHS, you are most likely watching- Salem's Lot : The Movie - version and not the mini-series. That would would also only have one VHS versus a 2-tape edition. Hooper says that a foreign distributor paid to have the gun in the mouth version shot as the alternate to make it "gorier".
I like the other version where Larry doesn't put his mouth into the gun, but the guy holding the shotgun had a voice that was just funny as hell. Great comic relief in this movie.
In the original movie (this one) Bonnie and Cully actually survive the vampire infestation. There's a scene that shows them packed up and leaving town.
This is only version I know, the only version I recall ever seeing. I watched it when it first aired on TV in 1979. I guess my memory could be colored by later viewings but I'm pretty sure this is the version that we saw in 1979. I distinctly remember being very disturbed by this scene.
This version of the scene was included in the two-hour cut of the movie called "Salem's Lot: The Movie" made for syndication and VHS which was supposed to be more violent than the original TV version. Because the full-length version on VHS and now on DVD is supposed to be like the TV broadcast, this and one other scene (where Bill Norton is impaled by Straker on the wall of stakes) are different than the scenes in the shorter cut.
No, it was originally made and shown as a mini-series, not a film. A two hour film version was created by editing down the original three hour content to a two hour running time.
*Hello from Detroit. Larry Crockett said he bought his shorts "in Boston", but I know **_for a fact_** that those particular shorts are only available in San Francisco...*
The edited "movie" version omitted the character development that made the mini-series so great. A simple rule of writing - the better the character development the more the audience can identify with and care for the characters. It is funny though-that the "gun in the mouth" and "impaling" of Norton's death were deemed too violent for T.V. -Interesting. But by all means-get the mini-series! One of the best vampire films ever made-no doubt!!
Yes, it's kind of confusing. Generally I refer to the full-length, 3-hour version as "unedited", but actually it is edited because this scene was removed, as was the full shot of Bill Norton's death. For TV they only showed a close-up of his face (although a still picture of the full shot was included in the tie-in paperback.) That's why I still have my VHS of the 2-hour "movie" version - I can't bear to part with it since those scenes aren't on the miniseries DVD.
This is one of my favourite scenes in the book ... he makes him put the barrel in his mouth and pulls the trigger .. the gun is empty and the guy shits himself. Very humiliating and really tense. Shame they had to change it for TV.
@bhindthosegreeneyes Yes, Bill Norton is in the novel, but he is not a doctor. IIRC he is a blue-collar worker and a relatively minor character. (Susan's mother plays a bigger part in the story.) In the novel, the doctor is a younger man named Jimmy Cody. The two characters were combined for the movie, as were several other characters.
I have the dvd and this scene is in there. I was expecting something different when you said alternate. Nope, this scene is there. Maybe the TV version was the tame one.
@Lotmeister From what I can tell, it appears as though they shot this scene twice, and didn't simply edit the version where he holds the barrel up to his face. The dialog in the other version is different (better actually) as well.
There is another ending to this movie where david soul says something about purifying the ground by burning the house down.i saw it in the 70s , 80s and 90s. I guess an alternate alternative scene replaced it.
A little trivia..the actress playing Cully's wife in the '79 version is married to the actor playing the priest in the Rob Lowe version (James Cromwell).
This scene was shown in the UK... remember it well. My freinds and I were glued to the mini-series! I thought the editied-down TV-movie version was way weaker, and the Rob Lowe remake was kind of behind-the-times... horror fiction had moved on since then.
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES we used to drive by his house all the time but we never got to go inside for Halloween but I had friends that did. I knew people who were always running into Stephen King but I was never so lucky. I did see him speak one time which was fun. He's such a man of the people! From what I heard he built a baseball field for Old Town and I never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him.
Less than 2 hours: 112 minutes, to be exact. They cut way too much out and it makes no sense. I remember my parents recording the mini series when I was about 5 years-old or so back in the 80s. I used to love this film but it scared the bejesus out of me. When VHS later came into use I could no longer watch the TV recording. The short version came on TV at a later date and I remember being really annoyed that they cut so much out, plus they changed some things including the music scores.
So many wrong people. This scene was used in the Theatrical edit, not in the original mini-series. In the series it’s just held up in front of his face.
The creepist scene in the book but was not used in this version was when the school bus bus driver is awakened by the honking of the horn of his school bus, goes outside, and inside the bus the seats are occupied by vampire children. Perhaps that was too much for the 70's. I never saw the remake. Was it included? How faithful to the book was it? "Salem's Lot is my favorite Stephen King book. I am a lapse fan, but might read Dr. Sleep if I can find it at a library.
It was included in the remake. They did have the shotgun scene as well, except it was Jimmy Cody who gets caught in bed, and its Sandy McDougall whose the faithless wife, and Randy McDougall the jealous husband. However, instead of humiliating Jimmy with the shotgun, Randy simply throws him out, threatening to expose the affair to his superiors at the hospital and get him fired, unless he pays hush money.
The boyfriend's initial response to seeing the jealous husband with the shotgun for the first time : "[He] felt a soft warm flush as his bowels let go." (quoting from the original book by Stephen King)
I remember this scene as being the original for the mini series, which I now own on DVD. In the much shorter, theatrical version, he held the gun in front of his face.
This was well made really. I think they do a great job. Mmm... I'm remembering that bold and mute Barlow... Well, that could be better, but just the same, this is a good film, tv film I mean.
In the miniseries be died of a heart attack I believe and his body was found in his car by the lake. In the novel, Mrs. Sawyer was cheating with a young man from the telephone company and was turned into a vampire and returned in his normal clothes.
But is it any good? These Stephen King made-for-TV movies have been pretty poor--even the '79 version plays pretty loose with the book (my favorite King book). I tried on a couple occasions to watch The Shining remake but I couldn't do it. It actually made me appeciate the Kubrick version a little bit more. The TV version was such a literal adaptation that one could open the book and read along. Kubrick kept the scenes tight and concise. Now we have the book sequel on the way.
I know, it was a very upsetting episode of Star Trek, she get's wasted, by some aliens, as an example to Kirk not to disobey them, a very attractive lady, should have been in more films
my take is on this being the o0riginal and probably one of the very best vampire movies ever why would you hire a guy like rob lowe to do a shitty remake and a return to salem's lot sucked to.
Rest in peace, Fred Willard gone today at 86.
Phil Dunphy's Dad? Oh no
For me this is one of the biggest images in cinema. George Dzunza is great. When he laughs and gets serious it is tremendous. Great Geroge Dzunza, a great actor
That was and ever will be the scariest vampire movie above all else especially that jail scene.
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...you survive a jealous husband's wrath only to fall into the hands of a vampire. That's got to "suck."
Yes. I felt bad for him
I love this scene.. Good ridden...
@@williebenning4750 I didn't
0:55 The way Cully's face changes from that smile to that serious look after he says "careful" is just scary as fuck!
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I remember this scene from watching it on Sci-fi Channel back in the 90’s. I always thought it was strange seeing Fred Willard in this small role because he was always a funny guy. Rest In Peace, Fred.
I knew I wasn't crazy! (Well, referring to this scene anyway...)
This is the version I remember seeing as a kid- 20 years later and I'm thinking 'I thought he puts the shotgun in his mouth, when do we see his teeth?'
Okay I need to get a life.
The evening was going great. Then the double whammy. RIP Fred Williard.
Boom..
what are the chances? u make it outta the house from a guy with a gun and a damn vampire's waiting on u?!
Chances are pretty high I would assume. There are vampires stalking through the town at night, so chances are someone who is outside at night is going to run into a vampire. If he would have gotten away from the guy with the gun and out the door in a town without vampires, chances are very low that a vampire would be waiting outside anywhere to get him. Unless, of course it was a vampire that had been on it's way to Salems Lot and was just passing through this vampire-free town, and he happened to be at the wrong place, wrong time.
Boom!
@@williamrobinson7568 he was screwed either way.
Watching the Blu-ray release that has Hooper's commentary. So, here is what he said about this scene. It is indeed NOT on the full length TV mini-series version (hence why it's not on the DVD nor the new Blu-ray.) it actually was shot as part of the cut down "theatrical release", which is a 90 minute hour movie that was also released on VHS. It is shorter than the mini-series. Hooper maintains he never liked that short version - but he goes back and forth on this particular scene. It was written that he puts the gun in his mouth in King's book. So, if you have this on VHS, you are most likely watching- Salem's Lot : The Movie - version and not the mini-series. That would would also only have one VHS versus a 2-tape edition. Hooper says that a foreign distributor paid to have the gun in the mouth version shot as the alternate to make it "gorier".
RIP the actor who played Larry on Salem’s Lot
I like the other version where Larry doesn't put his mouth into the gun, but the guy holding the shotgun had a voice that was just funny as hell. Great comic relief in this movie.
In the original movie (this one) Bonnie and Cully actually survive the vampire infestation. There's a scene that shows them packed up and leaving town.
When Fred Willard runs away it looks like poop falling out of his shorts 🤣🤣
This is only version I know, the only version I recall ever seeing. I watched it when it first aired on TV in 1979. I guess my memory could be colored by later viewings but I'm pretty sure this is the version that we saw in 1979. I distinctly remember being very disturbed by this scene.
Lol, any love for Larry's red silky boxer shorts! >: )
Notice how is walking so the silky-smooth wouldn't give him a stiffy lol
I’d rather be bitten by a vampire and live forever than get shot in the head.
Not by Barlow
This version of the scene was included in the two-hour cut of the movie called "Salem's Lot: The Movie" made for syndication and VHS which was supposed to be more violent than the original TV version. Because the full-length version on VHS and now on DVD is supposed to be like the TV broadcast, this and one other scene (where Bill Norton is impaled by Straker on the wall of stakes) are different than the scenes in the shorter cut.
The great George Dunzga.
I Love me some George Dzundza. Great great great great great actor of all times!!!!
I’m sorry but that shit was a HELL of a lot scarier than a blue vampire with goofy pointy buck teeth waiting outside!
I don't know about that. Barlow scares me and I don't scare easy.
Easy, Larry! Very easy!!! 😁
the loud trumpet killed him?
Hahahahahaha
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Good one I am dead after reading that
Lol
I reccomend all his early work up to and including Misery.
His 2006 effort Cell showed a return to form.
No, it was originally made and shown as a mini-series, not a film. A two hour film version was created by editing down the original three hour content to a two hour running time.
Detective Sgt Max Greevey ain’t playing with that shotgun
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*Hello from Detroit. Larry Crockett said he bought his shorts "in Boston", but I know **_for a fact_** that those particular shorts are only available in San Francisco...*
The edited "movie" version omitted the character development that made the mini-series so great. A simple rule of writing - the better the character development the more the audience can identify with and care for the characters. It is funny though-that the "gun in the mouth" and "impaling" of Norton's death were deemed too violent for T.V. -Interesting. But by all means-get the mini-series! One of the best vampire films ever made-no doubt!!
Yes, it's kind of confusing. Generally I refer to the full-length, 3-hour version as "unedited", but actually it is edited because this scene was removed, as was the full shot of Bill Norton's death. For TV they only showed a close-up of his face (although a still picture of the full shot was included in the tie-in paperback.) That's why I still have my VHS of the 2-hour "movie" version - I can't bear to part with it since those scenes aren't on the miniseries DVD.
This is one of my favourite scenes in the book ... he makes him put the barrel in his mouth and pulls the trigger .. the gun is empty and the guy shits himself. Very humiliating and really tense. Shame they had to change it for TV.
@bhindthosegreeneyes Yes, Bill Norton is in the novel, but he is not a doctor. IIRC he is a blue-collar worker and a relatively minor character. (Susan's mother plays a bigger part in the story.) In the novel, the doctor is a younger man named Jimmy Cody. The two characters were combined for the movie, as were several other characters.
I have the dvd and this scene is in there. I was expecting something different when you said alternate. Nope, this scene is there. Maybe the TV version was the tame one.
I liked this better and thought it creepier than the vampire scenes.
@Lotmeister From what I can tell, it appears as though they shot this scene twice, and didn't simply edit the version where he holds the barrel up to his face. The dialog in the other version is different (better actually) as well.
Never seen this version of this scene before...T4P :)
There is another ending to this movie where david soul says something about purifying the ground by burning the house down.i saw it in the 70s , 80s and 90s. I guess an alternate alternative scene replaced it.
Close you eyes Larry!
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Close 'em.
A little trivia..the actress playing Cully's wife in the '79 version is married to the actor playing the priest in the Rob Lowe version (James Cromwell).
This scene was shown in the UK... remember it well.
My freinds and I were glued to the mini-series!
I thought the editied-down TV-movie version was way weaker, and the Rob Lowe remake was kind of behind-the-times... horror fiction had moved on since then.
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES we used to drive by his house all the time but we never got to go inside for Halloween but I had friends that did. I knew people who were always running into Stephen King but I was never so lucky. I did see him speak one time which was fun. He's such a man of the people! From what I heard he built a baseball field for Old Town and I never met anyone who had anything bad to say about him.
I like the Stephen King books of the 70's along with the movie adaptations they were as good as the novels
maybe the master was patroling the streets and by coinsedense wen tht poor fella ran out was a perfect catch for him
This is not an alternate version.
I have this scene on a VHS I bought 15 years ago.
I agree, I saw it when I was a kidm
Less than 2 hours: 112 minutes, to be exact. They cut way too much out and it makes no sense. I remember my parents recording the mini series when I was about 5 years-old or so back in the 80s. I used to love this film but it scared the bejesus out of me. When VHS later came into use I could no longer watch the TV recording. The short version came on TV at a later date and I remember being really annoyed that they cut so much out, plus they changed some things including the music scores.
the 112 minute cut sucks some very majors dogs balls; all copies should be hunted down and torched.
So many wrong people. This scene was used in the Theatrical edit, not in the original mini-series. In the series it’s just held up in front of his face.
Rip fred willard
@bhindthosegreeneyes I recommend it. In fact it's my favorite book of any genre.
'Mr Barlow' is Count Orlock from Murnau's 'Nosferatu' ?
At least Mr Mr Straker is a man of his word. He promised Larry Crockett that he would be rewarded and at 1:44 he is - by Mr Barlow!
Rewarded indeed
The creepist scene in the book but was not used in this version was when the school bus bus driver is awakened by the honking of the horn of his school bus, goes outside, and inside the bus the seats are occupied by vampire children. Perhaps that was too much for the 70's. I never saw the remake. Was it included? How faithful to the book was it? "Salem's Lot is my favorite Stephen King book. I am a lapse fan, but might read Dr. Sleep if I can find it at a library.
It was included in the remake. They did have the shotgun scene as well, except it was Jimmy Cody who gets caught in bed, and its Sandy McDougall whose the faithless wife, and Randy McDougall the jealous husband. However, instead of humiliating Jimmy with the shotgun, Randy simply throws him out, threatening to expose the affair to his superiors at the hospital and get him fired, unless he pays hush money.
Was that actually Strakers hand reaching out when he gets outside or Barlow’s? Maybe both were waiting either way
It was Barlow's.
It was none other than Blue face Barlow.
that's hot. RIP Fred :(
Salem's Lot
In the books, the guy pees and craps himself. I wouldn't blame him in this situation.
Indeed it is. :)
What town and state do you live in?
any chance it WASN'T Barlow at the end of the clip?
It was Barlow! and he'll enjoy seeing you soon too :)
It was Barlow baby.
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES I'm from Maine and Maine can be a creepy place. Stephen King always gets Maine and Maine people perfectly.
...Missouri Highway patrol officer Norman Johnson......528 Francis Drive...Louis H Rohlfs holds two boys hostage...
The boyfriend's initial response to seeing the jealous husband with the shotgun for the first time : "[He] felt a soft warm flush as his bowels let go." (quoting from the original book by Stephen King)
I remember this scene as being the original for the mini series, which I now own on DVD. In the much shorter, theatrical version, he held the gun in front of his face.
That guy is a good actor. he was very nasty here and played a likebale bartender in Deer Hunter
This wasnt alternate.
Cully lives about 7 miles from me:) He works with our local theatre group.
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race
Cully Sawyer is a fucking badass.
Funny, this is the scene I remember seeing yet I just watched the dvd and it's the other scene, you'd think this would of been the scene on the dvd.
5 pound pull
Is this not the scene that was used in the movie?
Yes it was, I saw it as a child.
I always thought that was Fred Willard. He was very sexy back then!
This was well made really. I think they do a great job. Mmm... I'm remembering that bold and mute Barlow... Well, that could be better, but just the same, this is a good film, tv film I mean.
I wouldve done the same. U rock Culley !
In the book, he's scared shitless. Even wets himself when the husband walks in.. I don't think this is acurate. I mean, come on, he's SMILING.
its the same
In the book it's Corey who gets caught by Reggie trying to sleep with his wife Bonnie.
Red silky boxers = FIERCE!!
They remade it in 2004..it was GOOD, also! Rob Lowe played Ben Mears in the updated one. The book was scary, I read it 3 times. lol
All the other vampires were wearing the clothes they were bitten, so why wasn't Larry flying around in his silky red boxers and fangs? Just sayin'. -
In the miniseries be died of a heart attack I believe and his body was found in his car by the lake. In the novel, Mrs. Sawyer was cheating with a young man from the telephone company and was turned into a vampire and returned in his normal clothes.
I'm just glad he got got. Boom
But is it any good? These Stephen King made-for-TV movies have been pretty poor--even the '79 version plays pretty loose with the book (my favorite King book). I tried on a couple occasions to watch The Shining remake but I couldn't do it. It actually made me appeciate the Kubrick version a little bit more. The TV version was such a literal adaptation that one could open the book and read along. Kubrick kept the scenes tight and concise. Now we have the book sequel on the way.
no he was turned, just maybe not by the "master" maybe his wife or another townie.
alternate? its the ONLY version
I know, it was a very upsetting episode of Star Trek, she get's wasted, by some aliens, as an example to Kirk not to disobey them, a very attractive lady, should have been in more films
sorry. i should have read your notes first.
Who cares about the book, this Barlow works well in terms of visonaly scary plus hes the one cleary in control of things.
my take is on this being the o0riginal and probably one of the very best vampire movies ever why would you hire a guy like rob lowe to do a shitty remake and a return to salem's lot sucked to.
Every good horror movie has this sort of unfunny vein of black humor woven into it if you really think about it.
At least try to fight
its ok though not one of his best.
I recomend Salems Lot and Pet Semetary.
Sux to be him😂😂😂😂
Big boy in the red shorts got it both ways. Boom
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race
@TELEVISIONARCHIVES scariest looking vampires ever.. the Nosferatu race