Inspirations and Influences
Tobe Hooper, a great admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, pays several homages to Psycho (1960) in Salem's Lot. The appearance of Kurt Barlow is an homage to Count Orlock in Nosferatu (1922).
Salem's Lot had a significant impact on the vampire genre, as it inspired the horror vampire classic Fright Night (1985) and the scenes of vampire boys floating outside windows would be referenced in The Lost Boys (1987) and spoofed in The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror IV" segment "Bart Simpson's Dracula". Salem's Lot has also been cited as one of the primary influences for Joss Whedon's hit TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Swedish heavy metal band Ghost's debut album Opus Eponymous's album cover is a tribute to the film's poster.
Hannibal is an American thriller television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. Bryan Fuller has tweeted that a scene in Hannibal where a woman was impaled on a deer's antlers was inspired by the televised Salem's Lot which frightened him at age 7.
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Famous quotes containing the words inspirations and/or influences:
“We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)