The bedroom window sequence is notable because it features not a drop of blood, and not a single word of dialogue. Eminem gave it a shout-out in “Lose Yourself” (“I cannot grow old in Salem’s Lot…”) as a reference to a home that drains your life away, vampiric intrusions or no. Its influence has been felt in everything from The Lost Boys to Midnight Mass, and the window sequence was even famously spoofed on The Simpsons. Movies based on the books of Stephen King have been scaring audiences for decades, but Salem’s Lot was one of the very first (only Carrie from 1976 came before it) and it still harbors vivid moments of terror that endure 43 years later.
This moment from 1979’s two-part TV movie Salem's Lot remains one of the most unnerving to ever hit the airwaves. But then the scratching-oh, God, the scratching-on the glass makes it unbearable. A young boy with an unnaturally pallid face hovers in the mist outside his big brother’s window.
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