Salem’s Lot, Stephen King’s vampires back on Max

In the wake of the recent success of That in the cinema, it is now the turn of Salem to have the honors of a first adaptation in the form of a feature film. Gary Dauberman is once again writing and directing, while James Wan and Michael Clear are producing. This novel released in 1975, between Carrie et Shiningis one of the greatest hits of Stephen King .

In 1979, it was brought to the screen for the first time in the television film The Vampires of Salemthen in 2004 in a miniseries of the same name. In 2021, the prequel inspired by the short story The one who keeps the worm leads to the series Chapelwaite.

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“There are liberties taken with the book that I do not agree with”

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In the fictional town of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine, writer Ben Mears, played by Lewis Pullman, returns to his childhood home to write a book about the Marsten House, a sinister hilltop mansion and uninhabited since the suicide of its owner a quarter of a century earlier. But nothing goes as planned: the strange deaths and disappearances hide the presence of an insatiable vampire.

Filmed in 2021, announced in cinemas in September 2022 then in April 2023, Salem’s Lot was delayed until it was finally postponed to October 2024 on Max, Warner’s streaming platform. “There are some liberties taken from the book that I don’t agree with but overall it’s accurateStephen King said on his social networks. It’s pretty good. An old-fashioned horror film: slow build, big payoff. We find the atmosphere of “old Hollywood”, when a film had the chance to settle down before getting down to business. In other words, when the attention span was longer. »