Salem's Lot | Official Trailer | Max

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Ben Mears, a writer who spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, also known as 'Salem's Lot, has returned after twenty-five years to write a book about the long-abandoned Marsten House, where he had a bad experience as a child. He soon discovers that an ancient evil has also come to town and its turning the residents into vampires. He

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[jensonanckles]

I know most King fans love this book buy I was just whelmed. Maybe the movie will improve on it but I don't have much faith.

[j3]

I thought the same thing. So little seemed to happen in the span of so many pages. I did really enjoy the original 1979 mini series. Even all these years later, that’s still one creepy looking vampire.

[angriest_girl]

When I was a kid - 11 or 12, we were staying down the coast at a caravan park with a bunch of uncles and aunts and cousins and this mini series was on TV. All the kids were sitting outside watching it on a portable TV while the adults were boozing it up around a campfire a couple of caravans down - some of the kids as young as 4 or 5, quality 80s parenting there. My drunk uncle thought it would be funny to sneak up behind us on his way back from the toilet block and roar loudly, and you never heard so many kids scream in terror. We were running every which way, tripping over annexe wires, falling over in the dark.

This is my primary memory of the Salem’s Lot mini series, lol. And that creepy kid tapping on his friend’s window.

[bulastar]

me too. IDK if it was because it was published before the 90s/00s vampire pop culture saturation, but I thought it was OK

It didn't help that I had read Needful Things beforehand and it has the same beats

[jensonanckles]

Now, Needful Things I really, REALLY love!

[ginainabottle]

i think i've been whelmed by pretty much every single stephen king book i've read tbh lol i liked all of them (IT, pet sematary, misery, carrie & salem's lot were the ones I read), he's definitely a great writer and his narrative is often very engaging but as far as horror goes, i have yet to read one that genuinely scared me.

[angriest_girl]

I devoured it, but I was young when I read it and it was one of my first Kings, so I don’t know how it would hold up. I’m not sure I’ve ever read it since, might be time for another crack at it.

[pin_stripe]

I love it but for me it’s the ramping up of tension/turned vamps/how literally suffocating the town is