After attacking Priest Father Donald Callahan (James Cromwell) in a homeless shelter and falling with him from the window of a high floor on the street, successful writer Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) tells his motives to his nurse in the hospital. His story begins when he returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to write a novel and face the ghosts of his past in the Marsten Mansion. However, he realizes that evil lives in Salem's Lot, and the place is crowded with vampires. He fights against his fears and skepticism, and with the support of some local friends, they battle against vampire leader Kurt Barlow (Rutger Hauer) to get rid of evil.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil