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Salem Stalker was hugely controversial storyline from American soap opera Days of our lives. Running from the summer 2003 to spring 2004 it was written by James Reilly, who executed big part of the main cast and revealed that the serial killer behind it all was beloved and goodhearted psychiatrist Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall). Reilly made his killer to use the ice hockey mask as direct nod to Friday the 13th horror movies and used atmosphere effectively: supernatural elements (ghosts of the murdered people, the eerie visions of medium Celeste Perrault (Tanya Boyd)), "spooky" music, stormy Halloween night, foggy graveyard in nighttime etc. In the end Marlena was apparently killed, but in the very plotdriven and very implausible twist, she woke up in the tropical island of Melaswen (New Salem backwards), and her very living victims told to her that the killings were staged and she was innocent. The real culprit turned to be Andre DiMera (Thaao Penghlis) posing as his physically identical cousin, Tony DiMera.

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