Lewis Pullman as Ben Mears sitting in his car looking out an open window in Salem's Lot.
There's nothing about the new feature-film adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot that feels particularly fresh or novel — unless you count the fact that it has no interest in being anything other than an earnest, old-fashioned spookfest. That's going to be music to some horror fan's ears, but it might also explain why Warner Bros. chose to sit on this film for two full years, finally deciding to release it directly to Max .
What Is 'Salem's Lot' About? Close In Salem's Lot, novelist Ben Mears — one of a long line of King characters who are also writers — returns to Jerusalem's Lot, the small Maine town he lived in as a boy. His exact motivations for coming home are a bit vague, but it's clear he's trying to resolve some childhood trauma, as both of his parents died in a car wreck when he was 9.
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