“Salem’s Lot” trailer is here!

I knew what I was going to see.

Well, it doesn't look as absolutely shitty as IT and The Dark Tower. I, of course, will watch anything with Alfre Woodward

I'm glad they kept it set in the 70s.

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

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.

I'll watch! Bummer, it didnt get a theatrical release. Not a good sign.

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

Lewis Pullman looks like 80s actor Craig Wasson.

Lewis Pullman looks like 90s actor Bill Pullman.

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.

[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

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.

The vibe didn’t work for me. It just looked like another run of the mill vampire movie.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

He already did Midnight Mass which was very similar to Salem's Lot.

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.

I really liked Bill Pullman’s son and little Mark but this movie was just awful.