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Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot

6.2

Salem's Lot

R·2024·113m

Summary

Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Gary Dauberman

Novel

Stephen King

Reviews

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kevin2019

October 11, 2024

5

"Salem's Lot" is a well paced and perfectly watchable film that often manages to strike out on its own with a considerable degree of success. However, it proves to be a different matter entirely when it tackles the more spooky scenes which had the hallucinatory quality of a fever dream and made the original such a compulsive and memorable viewing experience. It recreates each one of these scenes, but with considerably less effectiveness (this is in large part due to the noticeable absence of Harry Sukman's superb music to magnify and intensify them) and as a direct consequence of this the scenes in question - Marjorie Glick on a mortician's table rising to join the undead, Mike Ryerson returning from the dead and so on - lack the necessary fear and tension in this latest incarnation which just confirms that Tobe Hooper's version of "Salem's Lot" (1979) is still the ultimate in terror.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$851,156.00

Keywords

based on novel or book
vampire
remake
literary adaptation
clinical