Salem's Lot will leave both horror and Stephen King fans alike yearning for a better adaptation. The new vampire film is streaming now exclusively on Max.
Salem's Lot Score Details “Salem's Lot will leave both horror and Stephen King fans alike yearning for a better, richer adaptation.” Pros Cons Salem’s Lot makes a classic book-to-movie mistake. It tries to do too much and ends up doing very little right. Writer-director Gary Dauberman’s clear affection for the film’s Stephen King-penned source material is clear in nearly every frame of his new, straight-to-streaming adaptation.
Salem’s Lot doesn’t try to hide what it is. The film’s opening minutes set up in extremely blunt fashion its small-town setting and the arrival of its two hungry strangers, an immortal vampire referred to only as Mr. Barlow and his human familiar, Richard Straker . From there, Salem’s Lot abruptly switches to the point of view of Ben Mears , a writer who has moved back to his childhood hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, to conduct some “research” for his next book.
Either way, if King’s original text feels at its best like a sorrowful portrait of a dying, all-too-familiar American town, then Dauberman’s adaptation feels more like an Etch A Sketch of one. The outlines of every character and plot beat are all clearly, graphically drawn, but Salem’s Lot lacks the patience to fill any of them in enough to make them matter.
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