Messiah of Evil, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz (uncredited), 1974 A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.... Salem's Lot, Tobe Hooper (2 episodes, 1979), 0 Novelist David Soul returns to his home town of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the handiwork of oddball antique dealer James Mason....