Salem's Lot,very late last night..been a long time since I had watched it.A few unintentional chuckles,like when the head vampire knocked the Petrie parents heads together..I reread the book just a few weeks ago,and the sequence is definitely more impressive in print.I actually laughed out loud when the vampire did it on the screen,it looked like a three stooges parody where Moe knocks Larry and Curly's heads together..and whoever was the producer or director for the project definitely had a thing for redheads,I noticed all the female leads were redheads..and noticed that Susan was
Bonnie Bedelia,who went on to fame as Officer McLane's wife in the Die Hard movie.One thing,when Mike as a vampire was in the upstairs bedroom,rocking in a rocker,at the teacher's house,I was watching and it was pretty creepy,when suddenly a bird,or a bat,or something,flew into the window behind me,making a loud noise which gave me a heckuva start..even seventies horror movies can still get to you if you get into the story..
I knew a guy that was in film school and his teacher showed the class this movie and pointed out all of the things in there that show exactly what you said. Really, the first time the two male main characters meet is in a bar and they lock eyes immediately, just staring at each other from across the bar- they don't know each other at that point? The elevator scene in which Cruise and the lady are alone inside, it's stops on a floor and in steps Kilmer's character. He turns his back to them, without one word being said. Doors close. Elevator doors opens, Kilmer steps out, camera shows his butt as he's leaving (Tom's point-of-view) and Tom says 'Well, that answers that.' or something along those lines anyway. And don't forget all the hot, sweaty men playing volleyball with each other......
