A novelist returns to his home town to try and get to grips with his past. But it is more than his past he gets to grips with, because the old town is in the terrifying clutches of an ancient evil! A fine and spooky horror movie, written by Stephen King and directed by Tobe Hooper. Misthter Barlow!

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...