![]() The producers were unable to find a house that looked like the Marsten House in Ferndale, California (where the bulk of the mini-series was filmed). Filming officially wrapped on August 29, 1979. With a budget of $4 million, principal photography began on July 10, 1979, in the Northern California town of Ferndale, California, with some scenes filmed at the Burbank studios. Television writer Paul Monash was contracted to write the teleplay, having previously produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Carrie A screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), resulted in Richard Kobritz selecting Tobe Hooper as director. Television and producer Richard Kobritz decided Salem's Lot would work better as a television miniseries than as a feature film format due the novel's length. ![]() The project was eventually turned over to Warner Bros. "Every director in Hollywood who's ever been involved with horror wanted to do it, but nobody could come up with a script." ![]() Producer Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter Robert Getchell, and writer/director Larry Cohen all contributed screenplays but none proved satisfactory. ![]() acquired the rights to ' Salem's Lot, the studio sought to turn the 400-page novel by Stephen King into a feature film, while still remaining faithful to the source material. ![]()
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