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

[ellie_andrews]

excited to watch this! i remember nothing from the book except that i liked it lol (i read it in high school, i think.)

[asnindie]

There's just something about the book I can't but absolutely love. I hope this can capture the essence of King which is sometimes hard to really put on screen. But maybe minus the lighting, this looks decent.

[itwontchange]

agree with everything you said INCLUDING the lighting. i don't understand why everything (not just this movie) is so dark?!

[espressotorte]

I need to rewatch the original

[slaughtermatic]

*screams in stephen king* 🎃👻💃 i may need to pay some actual coins for this god help me