The official trailer to the remake of Salem’s Lot is here.
I knew what I was going to see.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 12, 2024 4:18 PM |
Well, it doesn't look as absolutely shitty as IT and The Dark Tower. I, of course, will watch anything with Alfre Woodward
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 12, 2024 4:45 PM |
I'm glad they kept it set in the 70s.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 12, 2024 4:47 PM |
Also, GREAT GREAT use of music. That is as good as Don't Fear the Reaper in The Stand, just fantastic it really pulled me in to the video. I agree r3
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 12, 2024 4:50 PM |
Whenever I see child acting, I often wish the director had done an enormous number of takes until they got a very good performance or line reading, and not just run with a mediocre one. This is no exception.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 12, 2024 6:02 PM |
I'll watch! Bummer, it didnt get a theatrical release. Not a good sign.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 12, 2024 6:21 PM |
R6 Salem’s Lot has always been a tv movie. People don’t seem to realize that. It was made for MAX streaming. Never intended to be a theatrical film
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 12, 2024 6:25 PM |
Lewis Pullman looks like 80s actor Craig Wasson.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 12, 2024 10:57 PM |
Lewis Pullman looks like 90s actor Bill Pullman.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 12, 2024 11:15 PM |
Lewis Pullman is great casting as Ben Mears. Love Alfre Woodard, too, and [SPOILER}
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hope she somehow escapes the character's fate in the novel.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 13, 2024 2:27 AM |
[quote]I'm glad they kept it set in the 70s.
I don't know; even though some elements of the story would have to be re-worked in the age of cellphones, it might have been an interesting idea in our age of internet rumors for the start of the movie to originate with a story about a town where people move in for the cheap real estate only to keep disappearing. That's one of the elements that I liked about the story: the survivors going as far away as they can only, only feel like they can never really escape so they just lay low & don't talk. People living these lives on the fringe or in quiet desperation, a common element in King's stories, tends to get lost in movie/TV adaptations.
But the movie still looks reasonably entertaining. Let's just hope Pullman can fill out a pair of jeans the way Soul did
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 15, 2024 9:57 AM |
I watched some YouTube reviews.
They panned it.
Too bad.
They said there are some promising moments at the beginning but then the director loses his way and it turns into another zombie thing.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 1, 2024 1:03 AM |
The vibe didn’t work for me. It just looked like another run of the mill vampire movie.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 1, 2024 1:22 AM |
It's not a great novel but a fascinating one and the first IIRC to set a vampire story in a run-of-the-mill modern environment.
King wrote it as Maine was at the height of its population loss, so the idea of historic towns emptying out was familiar to the immediate audience.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 1, 2024 4:13 AM |
[quote]King wrote it as Maine was at the height of its population loss, so the idea of historic towns emptying out was familiar to the immediate audience.
Well, maybe in Maine, but not elsewhere. I didn't hear much about Maine's population loss in the rest of the USA in the mid-70s, at any rate.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 1, 2024 4:16 AM |
That actually looks incredibly scary. Maybe even too scary for me, because I jog past a cemetery in the middle of nowhere every night.
r5 And who's gonna finance those enormous numbers of takes? Time is money, especially on a film/TV set with so many people involved. Besides, it's not about the number of takes, but about getting a director who has experience with or even specialises in directing kids. The kids not having thirsty parents who over-rehearse their lines with them at home like they're dogs helps as well.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 1, 2024 4:26 AM |
I read the reviews too & none of them were good. I know is recent productions have been a mixed bag, but I wish Mike Flanagan had remade Salem's Lot for a limited series on Max. Limited series are a better forum for novels & Flanagan gets what King was going for in those books.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 1, 2024 8:19 AM |
He already did Midnight Mass which was very similar to Salem's Lot.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 1, 2024 9:04 AM |
It's not a limited series it's one movie.
Watching it now, it looks like a tv movie from the 90s. Bill Pullman's nepo baby son is the lead. He's ok.
Who knew that rural Maine was so multicultural in 1975?
Hell, rural Maine isn't all that multicultural in 2024.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 4, 2024 2:23 AM |
I really liked Bill Pullman’s son and little Mark but this movie was just awful.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 4, 2024 3:54 AM |