Salem's Lot: Stephen King adaptation is 'half-baked' thriller
"A fresh Stephen King adaptation should be exciting," said Christina Newland in The i Paper. "It's a shame, then, that Salem's Lot" – a small-town chiller set in 1970s Maine – has "zero new ideas or even a particularly frightening take" on the author's 1975 novel.
Salem’s Lot: a faithful but shallow adaptation of Stephen King’s classic vampire novel
Now comes Salem’s Lot. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, it’s the first feature-film adaptation of the 1975 novel in which Stephen King set himself the thought experiment of transposing Bram Stoker’s Dracula to contemporary New England. The book has been adapted twice before, in 1979 and 2004, but each time as a TV miniseries.
Salem’s Lot review - listless King remake
A boy’s dead friend scratching at his first-floor window, Nosferatu-like vampire Barlow rearing up with heart attack shock…The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper’s 1979 TV take on Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot scared a teen generation out of their skins.
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Salem’s Lot: Gary Dauberman’s first cut was 3 hours longWriter/director Gary Dauberman's first cut of his new Stephen King adaptation Salem's Lot was 3 hours long, so he had to cut ...
Sony Pictures ‘ forthcoming feature adaptation of the video game Until Dawn is set to invade theaters next year. Director ...
This long-awaited Stephen King adaptation is finally streaming. Upon release, it was the most-watched movie on Max. Learn ...
Sony’s Screen Gems is releasing the feature take of its Sony Playstation game Until Dawn on April 25, 2025. David F. Sandberg ...
This is the first Stephen King title to become a movie since 2019’s It Chapter Two, and the result is dismaying.
In true retro fashion, the ’79 Salem’s Lot goes low and slow. David Soul (on whom I have an involuntary residual crush, thanks to teen viewings of Starsky & Hutch) plays Ben Mears, a struggling writer ...
Gary Dauberman's 'Salem's Lot is an engrossing and atmospheric adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 novel, successfully transforming the source material into a ...
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Salem’s Lot is one of the few higher-profile Stephen King adaptations never to see the big screen, and this new direct-to-Max ...
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