I think this is Stephen King’s creepiest book. There are so many scenes in the book that get under your skin. The Shining and Pet Sematary are very spooky and creepy too but Salems Lot just has such good tension throughout the book
THe graveyard scene in the book was so creepy that I still remember it in detail even though it was probably 4+ years since I read the book. And I generally dont reread books.
My family stayed in a small, medieval town in England in the late 90s. The narrow alleys, cobbled streets and tudor buildings just transported you to another place, another time. We stayed in a 600yr old Tudor building called Old Beams. It was right across the road from a towering Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, which started being built in the 12th Century. The tombs of countless Earls and Barons from this time period were located on the grounds. My little attic bedroom across the road, in Old Beams, was 3 storeys up and looked across the Abbey grounds. The roof so low with beams, i had to duck down to reach my little bed next to the single pane, glass window. Right beside my pillow. It was there, looking out into the night, as the Abbey bells rang midnight and the fog rolled down the cobbled streets under the moonlight ... that I read Salems Lot for the first time. Im positive vampires were tapping on my little window all night long. That experience and this story have been close to my heart for the last 25 years and seeing this trailer just bought every single emotion rushing back!! I really hope this is good. I really hope it is as good as i saw it in my head those 25 years ago
Much of this was filmed right down the street from my house in Sterling, MA. The road where they have the Salem’s Lot sign is Lucas Rd. and I drive down it every day. The Marsten house was a fake house set up on Tuttle Rd. in Sterling. Was so cool to see the movie set and the old cars in real life.
@@hg1651Thank you. The trailer didn't give me the book feeling at all even tho I must say I like the visual of vampires on the rooftops. But "from the producers of Conjuring and IT" or whatever says it all - this will be an action packed jump scare mess
@@hg1651 Don't compare movies to books, books are usually better because you imagined it better in your mind and when the movies doesn't look like anything u imagine you get mad. Don't do it
@@Tek-Knight5592yup. I wouldn't even mind a couple of changes plot-wise if they retained the atmosphere of the novel, which is King's most atmospheric novel if you ask me. The evil of Marsten House oozes off the pages and the slow, creeping death of the sleepy small town is perfectly paced. Luckily we have two great adaptions already (yes, I'm a big fan of the Rob Lowe mini series too)
As a child in the 70’s, watched Jaws and was then afraid to go in the water, and watched Salems Lot miniserieses and was then afraid of the dark. I miss those traumatising times….
My parents took me to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the drive-in when I was 5. Before it started, they told me it was a true story. Parenting was very different in the 70's. It's why gen-x is a little shell shocked and checked out.
Oh, absolutely! Because, clearly, the real villains throughout history have always been those misunderstood witches, right? I mean, who cares about the folks burning people alive? Let’s just keep blaming the ones who could magically turn themselves into a goat or something. It's about time someone made a horror movie featuring mad white Christian men-because that's totally a fresh take we haven’t seen a million times before! Plus, who wouldn’t want to delve into the deep, complex psychology of… oh wait, never mind!
They will never top the original for me. Those visions of the Glick brothers, Geoffrey Lewis in the rocking chair, hissing, “We’ll see you sleep like the dead, teeaacherrr,” at the old man, and Reggie Nalder as Barlow…all are burned into my memory by those yellow vampire eyes.
Snuck into the living room and saw the original when I was 7 and literally constructed a cross out of Popsicle sticks to keep under my bed for the next 6 months afterwards.
Watched it at 9 years old in 1979....was ruined for years! Closets, basements or just alone at night!! Love the original!! LOL.....Really hoping this one is good...great start with this trailer!! I just don't understand shelving it for 2 years?? A big theatrical release was needed here.
Things I liked: - The crosses glow and I like that they actually repel the Vampires like a powerful force. - The colours. Day looks warm and welcoming, while night looks cold and gloomy. - It looks like they’re really gonna capture the isolation of The Lot once the damage is done and times running out. - Love the look of the vampires. Almost ripped right out the book. - Keeping Barlow hidden was smart. I really hope he looks menacing. - The Marsten House looks great. - Despite it being just under 2 hours long, I still think this will be a fairly good adaptation. I would’ve preferred this as a series or a 2 1/2 hour film but as long as it captures the tone, the sense of imposing dread, and nails the moments of suspense, I’m all in. October’s gonna be good this year.
I can't really express how excited I am to finally get to see this remake. Thank you!!! I've been waiting for this moment since I saw the original one in 1979. -Mr. Barlow, we missed you...
@@P.S.Leviews I hope that's true and I'll definitely be watching this. I just don't care for the look of it from the trailer. Visually it looks very much like a lot of mainstream horror stuff today. Hope I'm wrong and it ends up being great. I'll definitely give it a shot.
@@masterofallgoons I really only felt that the shattering church window looked distractingly digital and I'll watch despite that. I mean, I enjoyed the original mini-series - I can certainly let a bad digital effect slide in to see a new version of this classic. :)
@@BobBrinkman I wasn't talking about the cinematography more than the effects. This looks like it's shot on a shiny new digital camera and doesn't feel like it belongs in the 70s. Which is pretty common these days but unfortunate, I think.
One of the contributing factors as to why Stephen Kings' book Salem's Lot was so unervingly spooky was because it pulls back the veil on a host of secrets found in the homes of so many of the town's residents. The Marstin house? I first read that book when I was a teeneager. But it would become years later that I discovered the possibility that the vampire Barstow's connection to the house went beyond just his attraction to it due to its horrific history- that Barstow himself- all the way from Europe- could have played a role in how Hubie Marsten, the home owner of the house, lost his friggin mind and became a violent murderer. Never NEVER could I have come up with such a concept. Which is why Stephen King ranks as one of the TRUE horror masters of literacy!
If I remember right, Barlow's mocking letter to the heroes (An amazing moment of great literary villainy in how it was written) has him refer to Hubie Marsten as someone "Whose company I was never able to personally enjoy."
King himself has said Salem's Lot was more of an exercise in seeing what he could do with modern day vampires. He likened it to bouncing a tennis ball against the wall that was Stoker's Dracula to see which way the plot would go. (I paraphrased his original description found in Danse Macabre, his nonfiction overview of the horror genre and also his first account of how he writes his stories and novels).
I read this book over a decade ago. Several things stick with me, but the peek into the town's homes (ex. the young mother abusing / resenting her baby & the baby eventually turning into a vampire) was so well done.
Those bits with the flag exposing a vampire crawling along the treehouse wall and then the one where he looks out on the street and sees nothing, then back to the church, then back to the street only to find himself surrounded, are both amazing.
I always liked how the vampires took over the empty houses during the day, and you see in the trailer that they even take refuge in the trunks of cars. It's a sleep where you can sorta thing. Makes it creepy because you know they are lurking everywhere.
@@johngrizzle8826the same thing happened in an anime that rip off this story. Which is one of those animes that people don’t talk about. It’s called Shiki.
Would be nice if was a series and they covered Father Callahan after he went on the bus at the end (covered in Wolves of the Cala) mostly was dissapointed with that book, but all the parts about Father Callahan was fantastic....
The David Soul, Tobe Hooper 70s, version, won't be bettered. In horror less is more. Hooper changed one notable aspect of the story. Barlow was originally a more handsome moustache character and Straker was the bald one. I'd like to see a four hour, 3 part, version of the book to do it real justice. This is Scooby Doo and jump scares with nonsense characters thrown in. Shame.
@@davidcamp7199 for a theater experience id agree, but if it not packed with filler and fluff I think telling the whole story instead of needing to chop it up is a more enjoyable streaming experience
i was reading this book in the 70s, home alone in my room where i lived with just a roommate. it was getting to be late afternoon, early evening, summer time in Michigan, so exciting weather sometimes. sun was sinking, an i had my window open to catch the evening air. someone passed thru the back section of the apartment yard outside my window and as they walked by they said 'hello!' and kept walking. i was already in a state of high anxiety but at that i just jumped out of my skin, and i wouldn't read anymore of the book while i was alone. at night, i wouldn't read it even when i wasn't alone.
The mix version of Sundown is awesome! I have always loved this song; I am a purist, but I kind of like when they mix classic songs from the 70s and 60s for trailers!
James Mason! Lance Kerwin and yes, beautiful David Soul - Don't Give Up on Us Baby! I admit that the 79 version always was a bit campy to me. I am not sure I would have updated it though. I was fine with it and the book, tbh. But I am happy to watch this for free (for once!). I always have to either be forced to wait forever or pay for seemingly everything on earth, even though I pay so many gosh darned $ for all the streaming channels I have and wasted DirecTV money. hehe
At 0:32, that's my house! They commandeered my hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts, for the filming, and spending a week living on a set was AMAZING. It was a blast for all of us. I'm overjoyed that it's now available!
im so so excited to see ipswich in a movie, especially a horror movie! it was soo friggin cool when the set was up downtown, i kept hoping id possibly run into james wan somewhere haha
I have never, ever thought back to a jump-scare and not been able to sleep or had to keep the lights on. Jump scares are just stupid, inn-the-moment startling. A real horror film gets in your mind with the ideas it has. I still can't fall asleep in a bath because of that one shot in Nightmare on Elm Street where the girl is falling asleep in the bath and the glove starts to emerge from the water. It is slow and precise and very simple, but i couldn't watch the film after that one scene, I had to go to bed as it was too much. If that had been a simple jump-scare it would have had no impact. Making it slow and tense made my mind go crazy! More like that, please. ten sion over being startled.
I agree with this. I wish someone would make that happen. I recall that the 1970s TV version was a two-parter ... about three hours total. But I agree with you that something like an 8 HR miniseries would be better. Still hoping that this movie is good, and is as true to the story as it can be given limited run time. When it kept getting delayed releases, I kind of assumed that it was just bad and that was the reason. Then I read that Stephen King saw the movie and praised it, so that raised my hopes. Now seeing the trailer ... I'm kind of excited. Bonus for me is that John Benjamin Hickey is in it. He played one of my favorite TV characters ever -- Frank Winters on the completely underappreciated show Manhattan. Also curious about seeing Bill Pullman's son on the screen.
@@dashx1103 Pullman’s son is in this? That’s pretty awesome, makes me more interested. I’m also a little irritated that Barlow doesn’t seem to have a more human form, it seems they’re more emphasizing a Nosferatu / monstrous design. I want to see the final look of course but I remember some scenes in the book where he was more human than creep show.
@@dashx1103 Pullman’s son has been on the screen for years and has kind of established himself as a good actor at this point. Back in, I think 2018?, there was a movie called Bad Times at the El Royale where he played a character called Miles and that was a lot of people’s first introduction to him. He’s popped up in movies over the years; but due to him being a chameleon, most people don’t pick up that it’s the same person. Example, He was also Bob in Top Gun Maverick as well as Calvin in Lessons in Chemistry. He’s gonna play Bob/Sentry in Thunderbolts next year. Chances are, you’ve seen him in something, you just didn’t recognize it was him.
I don’t know. Granted, I haven’t read the book, but the original miniseries had a surplus of superfluous characters and subplots that went absolutely nowhere and aren’t particularly interesting. I don’t care about the local realtor’s affair, or the weird relationship between or boarding house owner and the local drunkard, or that the lead kid is doing poorly in school. There were entire sequences with characters that aren’t part of the main story and don’t present new or interesting information. A lot of time seemed to be wasted on nothing in particular. Stephen King had a tendency to overwrite and I think Salem’s Lot is a prime example of that.
When I read the book, I was 16 years old. If I forgot to stop reading before dark, I had to get my dad to pull down the shades! I tell people Anne Rice taught me to LOVE vampires and Stephen King taught me to fear them.
@@BoBurnham69 it’s amazing. Two people can share the same thought. But hey…whatever. I made the exact same comment to my dad 6 months ago but again…whatever!
In 1979 I was (11) years old. I watched it surrounding by (12) siblings. I shared a room with my (4) older sisters across the hallway from our (7) brothers. I still wet the bed because our bathroom had a big window facing the woods. My second viewing was in high school drama class.🙏🏻💖🌸
Ben and Jimmy Cody waiting for Marjorie Glick to rise was the best part of the book. The dread just dripped off the pages. This book is the greatest horror fiction ever written.
Salem’s lot is a book By Stephen King written in 1975 there was a miniseries that came out in 1979 and then in 1991. They did a remake which came out because of the success of the miniseries of it
This is the second remake of Salem's Lot since the original miniseries in 1979. Both David Soul (2024) and Lance Kerwin (2023) passed. I was lucky to meet Kerwin before he passed. The original terrified me as a kid and still does. It has such a haunting vibe to it and stellar actors. I won't say anything negative about this version-will def give it a chance but the original still stands the test of time.
@@taciobarbosa9706I actually am not a fan of either version. The 1979 version got some stuff right and some wrong. The 2000s version fixed the things that the 1979 version got wrong but it screwed up the things the 1979 version got right. 🤣
I can't believe I lived though all the nightmares from the movies I watched as a kid in the 70's, Jaws, Salem's Lot, and Alien. I still remember I couldn't sleep face up for a long time because of those damn facehuggers from Alien.
I'm looking forward to this version. The original is one of my favorite horror movies. As a funeral director/embalmer who has spent countless nights alone in the embalming room with the deceased, the scene where Mrs. Glick starts moving on the table, still gives me the creeps.
I watched this on cable TV when I was 10 years old. I found it terrifying. The original miniseries in 1979 will always remain my favorite. There are many layers to the overall story that are ingrained in my mind. Being a boy and scaring/daring each other. Small town, rural life. The love story between Ben and Susan. When he meets her in the park, Susan tilts her head and says, "Susan...Norton." I'm still in love with Bonnie Bedelia's portrayal of the character. 'Yes,' Ben said. He turned and looked at her, full in the face, for the first time. She had a very pretty face, with candid blue eyes and a high, clear, tanned forehead. 'Is this town your childhood?' he asked. 'Yes.'
Finally!!! Can you believe this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2021 since it wrapped post production?? It's been so pushed back that one was beginning to think it's been cancelled.
This looks totally overcooked. The 1979 version was superb because it was stripped right down to the bare bones, so the horror, the story, the brilliant acting and the superb special effects really hit home. You cant force a scary moment. Mr Barlowe's first appearances were so powerful because they were unexpected and he looked scarier than anything you'd ever seen before!
Not wishing to upset you but my partner was looking through the upcoming cinema showings and to my surprise she said Salems Lot is going to be shown here at our tiny local picture house over Halloween. I would have been happy enough if it was the 1979 version but I see that it is this 2024 one as it has been given a UK theatrical release. That has made my day.
The trailer looks good but I'm with you. The book is huge, and the town itself is basically a character in the book. Not sure they can do it justice in that amount of time. If they were just going to release it on Max, I don't why they didn't make it a mink series.
I did a report in English class back in 1990 where I compared 'Salem's Lot to Bram Stoker's Dracula. The two books are virtually identical; character to character, setting to setting, the parallels are unmistakable. Stephen King simply put his own New England spin on Dracula. It was fan fiction before the term entered the cultural zeitgeist.
When my dad (who was a priest) watched the first version of the movie and saw the Priest getting choke out by a vampire, he postulated that since a Priest consecrates the sacrament with his hands (the bread an wine) his fists should work just as well as crosses. Then I imagined the scene much differently as the Priest punching the vampire in the face and at least putting up more of a fight. Granted it might not have saved him from the others, but the fight scene would have been epic.
The Priest didn't get choked by a vampire in the first version. Are you thinking of the second version from 2004, where Rutger Hauer (vamp) forced James Cromwell (priest) to drink his blood?
The priest was challenged to pit his faith against Barlow. His faith in God. If he had thrown the cross aside, it would have shown that he indeed had true faith in God instead of having faith in the material thing in his hand. By not throwing it away, he showed that he did not have faith that God would protect him, only that the cross would protect him. That's why Barlow won.
Reading about Father Callahan in The Dark Tower series made me go ahead and read Salem’s Lot, and the book is actually very good. That glowing cross looks exactly how it’s described in the novels.
Yea, DT was such a good series it made me read every adjacent book, and then some. The Stand was my favorite, hands down, but 'Salem's Lot (it's short for Jerusalem's Lot) was also really good.
And the 90s. I was born in 85 and in the early 90s my parents let me rent whatever from the video store. Always went straight for the horror section and picked the coolest looking vhs sleeve haha
@@Red88Rex Same here. Born in 78 and watched movies on Betamax and later VHS throughout the 80s and 90s. Those cover arts were magic back then and I watched a lot of junk just because of the covers LOL
Midnight Mass is a masterpiece. Then again, everything Flanagan does is a masterpiece. Can't wait for his Dark Tower series! Hope it has Father Callahan in it. It would be cool if he used the same actor.
Yeah definitely took inspo from Salem’s Lot! And i can say the 1979 version has not aged very well, but Barlowe still might be the best head vampire ever put to screen.
@@StoopidSnot It's a remake, Cletus. A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium-e.g., a "new version of an existing film".
@@titusmccarthy yea that is the definition of a remake but the source material was in a different medium. For example, the Resident Evil movies are not a remake of the game, and the last movie is not a remake of the original set of movies but a different version. The Dune movies are not remakes either as the book existed before the movie, same thing with the Crow. Every Batman movie the starts anew is not a remake of the previous or of the original either. Salem’s Lot 2024 is not a remake of the 1997 movie as the movie was based of book, the 2024 movie is based of the book not the movie, Hance not a remake.
I regularly listen to the BBC Radio's version of Salem's Lot, that it has become my benchmark when it comes to this story. I hope this stands up and turns out well.
I love it when the song "Sundown" transitions from stereo to mono...very creepy. "Sundown you better take care if I find you been creep'in round my back stairs" ...so fitting and perfect for this film. I'm definitely looking forward to watching it.
@@joeofmacabre07 I think they will "borrow heavily" from the book while making a completely new movie with a lot of different scenes. I read the climax (or at least a major scene) will take place at the drive-in theater.
@@jeffreymercado2082 Skin color doesn't matter, right?! So who cares what color the actors are. They are American human beings playing American human beings. For decades we have had white British actors playing American characters. No complaints about that from anyone.
Even though it strayed somewhat from the source material, Tobe Hooper's 1979 2-part miniseries was a masterpiece. This'll need to be something special to be better.
@@MargaretRosenbalm I saw it originally when I was around 9 or 10, and I never watched the second part until several years later because Danny Glick at Mark Petrie's window gave me proper nightmares!
This story is actually a branch of The Dark Tower. Father Callahan is a big part of three Dark Tower books. They really did that Dark Tower movie dirty. I wish it could get a faithful adaptation.
18 years old when Salem's Lot came out. Had read that, Carrie and the Shining before realizing it was the same author. From that point on I bought everything he wrote. Honestly, I just wish they'd do limited series for his books. A movie is just too damn short to bring justice to a King novel.
I remember coming home in the 90’s on a comedown from acid and my mum was watching Salems Lot. As I walked in the living room the vampire was knocking on the window in the movie. That was a great moment to head upstairs to bed and try and sleep off the horror.
Once I took acid and someone was playing Led Zeppelin live, the song Dazed and Confused, and it was scarier than any horror film. That indescribable fear only people who have taken LSD understand. Song still freaks me out
At sixteen years old, I picked up the book. I had to get my dad to lower the drapes if I neglected to stop reading before it was dark! I tell people that Stephen King made me dread vampires, and Anne Rice made me love them.
After seeing the buzz that this trailer is creating, I bet Warner Bros are kicking themselves for leaving this movie sitting on the shelf for over 2 years. Crazy.
At first I was like, this can't be better than the OG, but it got my attention and I continued watching. It exceeded my expectations, and I can honestly say, it's up there with the og. I really liked it. Creepy good old horror flick. This one is a must watch. 10 stars 👍
That scene at 2:15 with all the vampires on the rooftops, and in the street, is directly out of my nightmares. Overwhelming numbers ... no way I'm getting out of this type stuff. Sometimes just bad people. Sometimes aliens. Sometimes vampires. Had one just the other night with the vampires. Only thing that is always the same is waking up soaked in sweat and trying to catch my breath.
Well, he doesn't die in the book so it'll be a major change if he does in this film. However, in 2003's Wolves of the Calla, which takes place some thirty years after the events of Salem's Lot, it's mentioned that Ben passed away and Mark Petrie attended his funeral. The two had remained in touch with each other all those years.
You can tell it's a horror show because the color grading is so dark and dim in every scene you have to squint to make out what you're looking at. Note to filmmakers: making your show actually hard to watch doesn't make it seem more scarry. This is a trend that should have been DOA but still it persists.
A good horror film will take something mundane and make it terrifying. We don't live in an age of good horror films. So, all we have are people trying to make horror horrifying, which just doesn't work. Most horrible things happen in mundane settings. Give me a horror film in the sun over a horror film at night. The night is already creepy. If you can make a sunny day creepy then you may have a good idea.
And in fact the movie is crap. Mini black terminator who is unfazed even when his parents die or when he kills a man or when he is about to be killed a vampire kid 🤦🏻♂️
This trailer should not have shown all those scary scenes because they are creepy and will work well when audiences didn't see it before hand. I saw the '79 version and still remember those scenes vividly today.
This looks fantastic! Can't wait to watch. I'd love to see Max pick up Dead Boy Detectives, as well, now that Netflix has passed on a second season. Get all of our spooky Halloween content on one service
Nothing is as entertaining and as terrifying as our own imaginations . Having just watched the movie .. I'll just say that us who know and love Stephen Kings novel will always just hold that dear and our own experiences with that. Nothing can replace those images we've created in our mind or live up to the love we have for the novel.
I don't really mind remakes if they come from a book. That way the source material can be copied rather than another movie. I think it allows more variety.
I don't remember seeing the 1979 version or the 2004 one, but this one was decent. The story was good & so was the acting. It was not an over-the-top vampire movie which was good. A quick & easy watch. Thumbs up from me.
Nailed the year (1975). Nailed the atmosphere. Nailed the vampires. Nailed the iconic scenes (Morgue & Graveyard). The only thing left to see is Barlow. Personally, I hope we get a blend of the book and Tobe Hooper's Nosferatu version.
The 1979 TV mini-series was directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and was absolutely terrifying!! I remember people were calling the television station complaining about how frightening it was and trying to get them to not air the second part. This just looks like a CGI hopped up remake.
So Awesome To See This Finally Coming Out! Most Of The Movie Was Filmed In My Hometown In Ipswich, Massachusets And Most Days I Would Go Downtown And Visit The Set And See Them Film! Me And My Dad Are Huge Horror Fans And We Can't Wait To See This!
I think this is Stephen King’s creepiest book. There are so many scenes in the book that get under your skin. The Shining and Pet Sematary are very spooky and creepy too but Salems Lot just has such good tension throughout the book
Scariest book I've ever read, no joke
I know what you mean. Read a paperback edition when I was fourteen and it had me at the edge of my seat.
1,000%
THe graveyard scene in the book was so creepy that I still remember it in detail even though it was probably 4+ years since I read the book. And I generally dont reread books.
@Alexander-kc8oq there's so many, but mine is when they're sleeping under the trailer and omg, that baby...
Everyone knows. If you saw this on TV in 79 ... the kid in the window was the stuff of nightmares
BOOM!!!💯👍🏾 The image of “Ralphie Glick” (actor Ron Scribner) floating outside his brother Danny’s bedroom window, had me shook for YEARS.
The Barlow jumpscare was what got me
The 1979 original Salem's Lot is still the best film!
David Soul.
David Soul!
The only book I've ever read that legitimately made me turn all the lights on in the house.
That was me with my first reading of the Shining. I couldn't read it before bed back in the 90s 😂 I slept with all the lights and the TV on for weeks.
I had nightmares, until I threw it out the window. 💀
same here! lol
Right? Though the only King book I've ever read.
Mr Barlow will enjoy you
My family stayed in a small, medieval town in England in the late 90s. The narrow alleys, cobbled streets and tudor buildings just transported you to another place, another time. We stayed in a 600yr old Tudor building called Old Beams. It was right across the road from a towering Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, which started being built in the 12th Century. The tombs of countless Earls and Barons from this time period were located on the grounds. My little attic bedroom across the road, in Old Beams, was 3 storeys up and looked across the Abbey grounds. The roof so low with beams, i had to duck down to reach my little bed next to the single pane, glass window. Right beside my pillow.
It was there, looking out into the night, as the Abbey bells rang midnight and the fog rolled down the cobbled streets under the moonlight ... that I read Salems Lot for the first time. Im positive vampires were tapping on my little window all night long. That experience and this story have been close to my heart for the last 25 years and seeing this trailer just bought every single emotion rushing back!! I really hope this is good. I really hope it is as good as i saw it in my head those 25 years ago
Cool
It won't be, but it does look good.
@@marymoran8859 it was so cool 💙 the place is called Tewkesbury
Oh I hope that town remains as is without being modernized. sounds lovely
Awesome..
awesome that they decided to keep this in the 1970s
Came here to say this. I was so worried they were going to make it take place in present day. It looks fantastic.
Just wish it didn't look so digital and more like a film from thr 70s
wish they put less woke characters though
@@MaxCharmed always one of these guys. What a cliché.
@@MaxCharmed what does a woke character mean? clown!
"The one thing about living in New England I never could stomach: all the damn vampires."
Lost Boys?
@@downeykidsno Salem's Lot
Alright, Grandpa 😂
Lost Boys definitely borrowed from Salem's Lot. Fright Night too.
I see what you did there lol
Much of this was filmed right down the street from my house in Sterling, MA. The road where they have the Salem’s Lot sign is Lucas Rd. and I drive down it every day. The Marsten house was a fake house set up on Tuttle Rd. in Sterling. Was so cool to see the movie set and the old cars in real life.
This movie should’ve went to theaters man 😭😭😭💔
@@ThatonehorrormoviefanLiterally says it's an original film in the trailer
@@Thatonehorrormoviefan New Max Original film
Well, better have a home theater then.
Streaming is cheaper, if u Have home theater cool bigger screen cool but it's $30 to go to the theater
@@ryanThejedi In the UK it releases in cinemas.
I like that it's set in the '70s. It also looks like the people who made this movie have an understanding of what made the novel so memorable.
No they do not ! have you read the novel ? 99% of the trailer is added nonsense. The novel is nothing like the trailer at all.
@@hg1651Thank you. The trailer didn't give me the book feeling at all even tho I must say I like the visual of vampires on the rooftops. But "from the producers of Conjuring and IT" or whatever says it all - this will be an action packed jump scare mess
@@AlgernonBrosplitzI agree even the fates have changed you can see @1:53-1:54 Ben is staking Matt in the basement of the Marsten House
@@hg1651 Don't compare movies to books, books are usually better because you imagined it better in your mind and when the movies doesn't look like anything u imagine you get mad. Don't do it
@@Tek-Knight5592yup. I wouldn't even mind a couple of changes plot-wise if they retained the atmosphere of the novel, which is King's most atmospheric novel if you ask me. The evil of Marsten House oozes off the pages and the slow, creeping death of the sleepy small town is perfectly paced. Luckily we have two great adaptions already (yes, I'm a big fan of the Rob Lowe mini series too)
As a child in the 70’s, watched Jaws and was then afraid to go in the water, and watched Salems Lot miniserieses and was then afraid of the dark. I miss those traumatising times….
My parents took me to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the drive-in when I was 5. Before it started, they told me it was a true story. Parenting was very different in the 70's. It's why gen-x is a little shell shocked and checked out.
@@idrow1 Yeah, but some of us want to dive right back into it!
Oh, absolutely! Because, clearly, the real villains throughout history have always been those misunderstood witches, right? I mean, who cares about the folks burning people alive? Let’s just keep blaming the ones who could magically turn themselves into a goat or something. It's about time someone made a horror movie featuring mad white Christian men-because that's totally a fresh take we haven’t seen a million times before! Plus, who wouldn’t want to delve into the deep, complex psychology of… oh wait, never mind!
And the exorcist being alone at home in bed thinking it was going to start shaking lol
I watched The Legend of Boggy Creek and was afraid to go to the bathroom!!
They will never top the original for me. Those visions of the Glick brothers, Geoffrey Lewis in the rocking chair, hissing, “We’ll see you sleep like the dead, teeaacherrr,” at the old man, and Reggie Nalder as Barlow…all are burned into my memory by those yellow vampire eyes.
Yeap! Geoffrey Lewis was pretty scary. Still remember his scene.
You guys scare so easily. That scene was funny.
Couldn't agree more. This was an awful remake by comparison and had the look and feel of a really cheap TV movie.
@@fallenangel7884 Get fkd. If you watched that as a kid back in the day, you'd be scared too.
@@timmunn6547 Yup. Absolutely terrible remake. I couldnt finish it.
One of my favorite movies as a kid. The boy tapping on the window always got me.
Me too!
The Master approves
But Mark wasn't a darkie
One of the creepiest movie scenes...EVER! Still gives me chills as an old dude. So glad this is finally being released!
Ruined me!! LOL.....I'm hearing that creepy music as I type. Ha!
Snuck into the living room and saw the original when I was 7 and literally constructed a cross out of Popsicle sticks to keep under my bed for the next 6 months afterwards.
Read the book two years ago and did the same thing with LEGO.
😮😊
Watched it at 9 years old in 1979....was ruined for years! Closets, basements or just alone at night!! Love the original!! LOL.....Really hoping this one is good...great start with this trailer!! I just don't understand shelving it for 2 years?? A big theatrical release was needed here.
Mine was with matchsticks!! 😂
@@FDNY22I was 10. I couldn't sleep for days. And, I'm still afraid I'll wake up and see those eyes glowing in the dark.
Things I liked:
- The crosses glow and I like that they actually repel the Vampires like a powerful force.
- The colours. Day looks warm and welcoming, while night looks cold and gloomy.
- It looks like they’re really gonna capture the isolation of The Lot once the damage is done and times running out.
- Love the look of the vampires. Almost ripped right out the book.
- Keeping Barlow hidden was smart. I really hope he looks menacing.
- The Marsten House looks great.
- Despite it being just under 2 hours long, I still think this will be a fairly good adaptation. I would’ve preferred this as a series or a 2 1/2 hour film but as long as it captures the tone, the sense of imposing dread, and nails the moments of suspense, I’m all in.
October’s gonna be good this year.
The nighttime scenes look cold, gloomy, AND frightening. Like something sinister is just around the corner…
@@BobbyFett3994 N.L.
So sad not in movie theater
@@Saber808because your mother demanded it 🙄
@@endutwymela N.L.
I can't really express how excited I am to finally get to see this remake. Thank you!!! I've been waiting for this moment since I saw the original one in 1979. -Mr. Barlow, we missed you...
My favorite King novel. Love that they kept it in the 70s.
I just wish it looked more like the 70s and not so digital
@@masterofallgoons I get what you mean but King said the best moments feel like classic John Carpenter
@@P.S.Leviews I hope that's true and I'll definitely be watching this. I just don't care for the look of it from the trailer. Visually it looks very much like a lot of mainstream horror stuff today. Hope I'm wrong and it ends up being great. I'll definitely give it a shot.
@@masterofallgoons I really only felt that the shattering church window looked distractingly digital and I'll watch despite that. I mean, I enjoyed the original mini-series - I can certainly let a bad digital effect slide in to see a new version of this classic. :)
@@BobBrinkman I wasn't talking about the cinematography more than the effects. This looks like it's shot on a shiny new digital camera and doesn't feel like it belongs in the 70s. Which is pretty common these days but unfortunate, I think.
One of the contributing factors as to why Stephen Kings' book Salem's Lot was so unervingly spooky was because it pulls back the veil on a host of secrets found in the homes of so many of the town's residents.
The Marstin house? I first read that book when I was a teeneager. But it would become years later that I discovered the possibility that the vampire Barstow's connection to the house went beyond just his attraction to it due to its horrific history- that Barstow himself- all the way from Europe- could have played a role in how Hubie Marsten, the home owner of the house, lost his friggin mind and became a violent murderer.
Never
NEVER could I have come up with such a concept.
Which is why Stephen King ranks as one of the TRUE horror masters of literacy!
If I remember right, Barlow's mocking letter to the heroes (An amazing moment of great literary villainy in how it was written) has him refer to Hubie Marsten as someone "Whose company I was never able to personally enjoy."
Apologies, I believe it's Barlow. Kurt Barlow. You are spot on otherwise!!
King himself has said Salem's Lot was more of an exercise in seeing what he could do with modern day vampires. He likened it to bouncing a tennis ball against the wall that was Stoker's Dracula to see which way the plot would go. (I paraphrased his original description found in Danse Macabre, his nonfiction overview of the horror genre and also his first account of how he writes his stories and novels).
I read this book over a decade ago. Several things stick with me, but the peek into the town's homes (ex. the young mother abusing / resenting her baby & the baby eventually turning into a vampire) was so well done.
Its the only book I've read three times. Every time I read the book I learn something new. Im going to read it for a fourth time.
Poor Father Callahan. Gonna end up in Mid-world fighting robot wolves before it's all said and done.
All things serve....
The beam
It is Ka.
Long days and pleasent nights, sai
Doesn't everyone? I worked in Lud for two years as a Pube sacrifice cleanup guy before I found my way back to the Dixie Pig.
Those bits with the flag exposing a vampire crawling along the treehouse wall and then the one where he looks out on the street and sees nothing, then back to the church, then back to the street only to find himself surrounded, are both amazing.
I always liked how the vampires took over the empty houses during the day, and you see in the trailer that they even take refuge in the trunks of cars. It's a sleep where you can sorta thing. Makes it creepy because you know they are lurking everywhere.
@@Capri-x8m I'm sure you could do better..
I think the car scene is from the book if I’m not mistaken? Hiding anywhere out of sunlight.
@@johngrizzle8826the same thing happened in an anime that rip off this story. Which is one of those animes that people don’t talk about. It’s called Shiki.
@@Wing-Zero-si1eu Vampire lore has been around since before Shiki and Stephen King buddy
@@TrueGuardify with Bram Stoker’s Dracula being the one to start it all.
Pullman’s an underrated actor and I’ll watch this just because of him.
Looking forward to seeing him bring The Sentry to the big screen
Thought he was really good in bad times at the el royale
His father, Bill is one of my favorites.
Yes same! Im 💯 watching for him!
sameee here
This movie needs to be at least 3 hours long for it to hit like the book hit
1 Hour and 53 🙃
Would be nice if was a series and they covered Father Callahan after he went on the bus at the end (covered in Wolves of the Cala) mostly was dissapointed with that book, but all the parts about Father Callahan was fantastic....
The David Soul, Tobe Hooper 70s, version, won't be bettered. In horror less is more. Hooper changed one notable aspect of the story. Barlow was originally a more handsome moustache character and Straker was the bald one. I'd like to see a four hour, 3 part, version of the book to do it real justice. This is Scooby Doo and jump scares with nonsense characters thrown in. Shame.
Nah. Silly length is the curse of so many modern movies. Lean and mean with tight editing. Get it down under 2.
@@davidcamp7199 for a theater experience id agree, but if it not packed with filler and fluff I think telling the whole story instead of needing to chop it up is a more enjoyable streaming experience
i was reading this book in the 70s, home alone in my room where i lived with just a roommate. it was getting to be late afternoon, early evening, summer time in Michigan, so exciting weather sometimes. sun was sinking, an i had my window open to catch the evening air. someone passed thru the back section of the apartment yard outside my window and as they walked by they said 'hello!' and kept walking. i was already in a state of high anxiety but at that i just jumped out of my skin, and i wouldn't read anymore of the book while i was alone. at night, i wouldn't read it even when i wasn't alone.
The trailer looks really good and adding Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown is the chef's kiss
🤌
Not feeling that song. Sounds a little too happy and very out of place bad choice for this type of horror film.
@@roberterniso5475 Sundown is definitely not a "happy" song.
@@roberterniso5475 Sundown isn't a happy song and plenty of "happy" songs have worked well in horror movies
The mix version of Sundown is awesome! I have always loved this song; I am a purist, but I kind of like when they mix classic songs from the 70s and 60s for trailers!
I always appreciate a good use of Gordon Lightfoot. A national treasure
A Canadian national treasure
@@jeffclark5268ya beat me by one hour.🤣🇺🇸🇨🇦
They use this particular song A LOT for horror and suspense films and shows.
A dead treasure
Thought I was hearing sundown
Can't beat 1979's Salem's Lot with David Soul ❤
James Mason! Lance Kerwin and yes, beautiful David Soul - Don't Give Up on Us Baby! I admit that the 79 version always was a bit campy to me. I am not sure I would have updated it though. I was fine with it and the book, tbh. But I am happy to watch this for free (for once!). I always have to either be forced to wait forever or pay for seemingly everything on earth, even though I pay so many gosh darned $ for all the streaming channels I have and wasted DirecTV money. hehe
@@jbjacobs9514 👍👍😁
Can't judge having only watched one 🦙
Bias
Bias
At 0:32, that's my house! They commandeered my hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts, for the filming, and spending a week living on a set was AMAZING. It was a blast for all of us. I'm overjoyed that it's now available!
I worked on the film. Spent a few weeks in ipswich. Great places to eat. Choate bridge is amazing
@talithasuya8908 :Oh my bad.Thank you for telling me.
@@J1853 Hope you get to visit.
@talithasuya8908 :Thank you so much.That's really kind of you❤️.
im so so excited to see ipswich in a movie, especially a horror movie! it was soo friggin cool when the set was up downtown, i kept hoping id possibly run into james wan somewhere haha
When will today's filmmakers realize that loud does not equal scary. Jump scares do not a scary movie make.
When people stop reacting to them and getting scared by them?
A loud sound is not “scary”, it’s startling, and that creates an involuntary response.
That's kind of my worry with this movie. Seems action packed when what made the book work was the build up.
I have never, ever thought back to a jump-scare and not been able to sleep or had to keep the lights on. Jump scares are just stupid, inn-the-moment startling. A real horror film gets in your mind with the ideas it has. I still can't fall asleep in a bath because of that one shot in Nightmare on Elm Street where the girl is falling asleep in the bath and the glove starts to emerge from the water. It is slow and precise and very simple, but i couldn't watch the film after that one scene, I had to go to bed as it was too much. If that had been a simple jump-scare it would have had no impact. Making it slow and tense made my mind go crazy! More like that, please. ten sion over being startled.
You dont jump cause youre startled, you jump because the loud sound out of nowhere scared you...
I don’t think Salem’s Lot needed a full 8 hour miniseries, but a 2 hour running time movie just does not feel like enough at all.
I agree with this. I wish someone would make that happen. I recall that the 1970s TV version was a two-parter ... about three hours total. But I agree with you that something like an 8 HR miniseries would be better.
Still hoping that this movie is good, and is as true to the story as it can be given limited run time. When it kept getting delayed releases, I kind of assumed that it was just bad and that was the reason. Then I read that Stephen King saw the movie and praised it, so that raised my hopes. Now seeing the trailer ... I'm kind of excited. Bonus for me is that John Benjamin Hickey is in it. He played one of my favorite TV characters ever -- Frank Winters on the completely underappreciated show Manhattan. Also curious about seeing Bill Pullman's son on the screen.
@@dashx1103 Pullman’s son is in this? That’s pretty awesome, makes me more interested. I’m also a little irritated that Barlow doesn’t seem to have a more human form, it seems they’re more emphasizing a Nosferatu / monstrous design. I want to see the final look of course but I remember some scenes in the book where he was more human than creep show.
@@dashx1103 Pullman’s son has been on the screen for years and has kind of established himself as a good actor at this point. Back in, I think 2018?, there was a movie called Bad Times at the El Royale where he played a character called Miles and that was a lot of people’s first introduction to him. He’s popped up in movies over the years; but due to him being a chameleon, most people don’t pick up that it’s the same person.
Example, He was also Bob in Top Gun Maverick as well as Calvin in Lessons in Chemistry. He’s gonna play Bob/Sentry in Thunderbolts next year.
Chances are, you’ve seen him in something, you just didn’t recognize it was him.
@@Sharpe1502 I’ve been wanting to watch Bad Times at the El Royale … just haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for the heads up on Pullman.
I don’t know. Granted, I haven’t read the book, but the original miniseries had a surplus of superfluous characters and subplots that went absolutely nowhere and aren’t particularly interesting. I don’t care about the local realtor’s affair, or the weird relationship between or boarding house owner and the local drunkard, or that the lead kid is doing poorly in school. There were entire sequences with characters that aren’t part of the main story and don’t present new or interesting information. A lot of time seemed to be wasted on nothing in particular. Stephen King had a tendency to overwrite and I think Salem’s Lot is a prime example of that.
When I read the book, I was 16 years old. If I forgot to stop reading before dark, I had to get my dad to pull down the shades! I tell people Anne Rice taught me to LOVE vampires and Stephen King taught me to fear them.
Pls what the name of the book???
@@Humphrey-h1r 'Salem's Lot.
You literally copied this comment, you hungry for likes or what? 🤡😹
@@BoBurnham69 it’s amazing. Two people can share the same thought. But hey…whatever. I made the exact same comment to my dad 6 months ago but again…whatever!
@@BoBurnham69 She's the original commenter, the other person commented a day later, look at dates once in a while fool.
In 1979 I was (11) years old. I watched it surrounding by (12) siblings. I shared a room with my (4) older sisters across the hallway from our (7) brothers. I still wet the bed because our bathroom had a big window facing the woods. My second viewing was in high school drama class.🙏🏻💖🌸
Are your parents rabbits? 😜
@@PrayWithoutCreasing you still wet the bed? 😳
Mormon family?
@@tgs1766 U dnt need to be mormon for wanting to have a big family. Less tag and more common sense, please.
Love your hair..
Mark Petrie escaping from the Marsten House is possibly the most suspenseful piece of writing I've ever read. Hope that makes this adaptation.
Ben and Jimmy Cody waiting for Marjorie Glick to rise was the best part of the book. The dread just dripped off the pages.
This book is the greatest horror fiction ever written.
Just finished reading Salem’s Lot and I am HYPED
Salem's was my first experience with Stephen King in the year of 1991 at the age of sixteen, and well it started a love affair that has never ended.
Salem’s lot is a book By Stephen King written in 1975 there was a miniseries that came out in 1979 and then in 1991. They did a remake which came out because of the success of the miniseries of it
Read the book many times. The 1979 miniseries is my favorite vampire film of all time. This looks like a slightly different take. And i love it so far
This is the second remake of Salem's Lot since the original miniseries in 1979. Both David Soul (2024) and Lance Kerwin (2023) passed. I was lucky to meet Kerwin before he passed. The original terrified me as a kid and still does. It has such a haunting vibe to it and stellar actors. I won't say anything negative about this version-will def give it a chance but the original still stands the test of time.
Is the 2000s version good? I was worried because they are four hours long and this movie definitely won't be, I hope they don't condense it so much...
@@taciobarbosa9706 I did not like the 2000 one. The 1979 version was much better.
@@taciobarbosa9706I actually am not a fan of either version. The 1979 version got some stuff right and some wrong. The 2000s version fixed the things that the 1979 version got wrong but it screwed up the things the 1979 version got right. 🤣
Open the window, open the window!
@@FreshSpecimensThe mini series was genius. You're wrong!
I can't believe I lived though all the nightmares from the movies I watched as a kid in the 70's, Jaws, Salem's Lot, and Alien. I still remember I couldn't sleep face up for a long time because of those damn facehuggers from Alien.
Can’t wait!! This is my most anticipated horror movie of the year behind Nosferatu 🧛🏻♂️
I'm looking forward to this version. The original is one of my favorite horror movies. As a funeral director/embalmer who has spent countless nights alone in the embalming room with the deceased, the scene where Mrs. Glick starts moving on the table, still gives me the creeps.
I wish they would make a version that ties Jerusalem's Lot and One for the Road into the story of Salem's Lot. It would make a heck of a miniseries.
FINALLY a remake that could rival the original mini-series in terms of sheer terror and creepiness!! Looking forward to this!
On Max? Are you kidding me? This should be in theatres.
It is in the UK
Be happy this is even coming out, the film almost got Batgirled
in the cinemas on October 11 in the UK.
Have you been to theatres lately? Nah.
Not according to those who previewed it
I watched this on cable TV when I was 10 years old. I found it terrifying. The original miniseries in 1979 will always remain my favorite. There are many layers to the overall story that are ingrained in my mind. Being a boy and scaring/daring each other. Small town, rural life. The love story between Ben and Susan. When he meets her in the park, Susan tilts her head and says, "Susan...Norton." I'm still in love with Bonnie Bedelia's portrayal of the character. 'Yes,' Ben said. He turned and looked at her, full in the face, for the first time. She had a very pretty face, with candid blue eyes and a high, clear, tanned forehead. 'Is this town your childhood?' he asked.
'Yes.'
Finally!!! Can you believe this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2021 since it wrapped post production??
It's been so pushed back that one was beginning to think it's been cancelled.
2022, I think
Damn why was it pushed back so much?
@@joecamel1079 Cuz it sucks and needed a bunch of retooling.
Why is Mark Petrie black? Damn Eggplants.
@@Saber808 S.L.
This looks totally overcooked. The 1979 version was superb because it was stripped right down to the bare bones, so the horror, the story, the brilliant acting and the superb special effects really hit home. You cant force a scary moment. Mr Barlowe's first appearances were so powerful because they were unexpected and he looked scarier than anything you'd ever seen before!
THANKS YOU ! Finally
Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown just took on a whole new meaning.
Thanks, your comment helped me find this song´s name
I love that song but kinda took me out of the immersion in this lol
Wow this is going to be another "Prey" situation where the studio had no confidence in this movie and it should have been in theaters.
And probably just as bad.
Prey was a good film better than the other modern predator films anyways
Max needs subscribers
It's in UK cinemas from 11th October.
@@justaguyonyoutube4592 let me guess, too woke right? On god, you people are exhausting.
This trailer is so good. I’m frankly kinda disgusted that the theatrical release was canceled, but at least I can watch it over and over at home now.
Not wishing to upset you but my partner was looking through the upcoming cinema showings and to my surprise she said Salems Lot is going to be shown here at our tiny local picture house over Halloween. I would have been happy enough if it was the 1979 version but I see that it is this 2024 one as it has been given a UK theatrical release. That has made my day.
@@bobbo1964That’s awesome! Enjoy.
I just don’t know how they’re gonna tell that story in an hour and 53 minutes. The original Salem’s Lot movie from 1979 is over 3 hours.
They aren't planning on it. That would get in the way of the diversity training and their woke agenda.
Because it was a limited TV miniseries, so it had more time to flesh (pun intended) things out.
Since the people behind Conjuring and IT are involved I expect they'll cut down on runtime by making the horror all jump scares
The trailer looks good but I'm with you. The book is huge, and the town itself is basically a character in the book. Not sure they can do it justice in that amount of time. If they were just going to release it on Max, I don't why they didn't make it a mink series.
Now that’s a proper trailer! Mood, atmosphere, tension, and teases but not a 2 minute version of the whole thing. Pumped to see this.
This actually looks great! I was worried that all the delays were because they were trying to redeem a hot mess, but now I can’t wait to see it!
this looks generic and bad with a lot bad CGI
You’re incorrect. The attention to detail in this movie were outstanding.
@@markozbunjol625 what bad CGI are you referring to? I think it looks great.
watched it today. not worth it at all.
I did a report in English class back in 1990 where I compared 'Salem's Lot to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The two books are virtually identical; character to character, setting to setting, the parallels are unmistakable. Stephen King simply put his own New England spin on Dracula. It was fan fiction before the term entered the cultural zeitgeist.
Salem's Lot is far more frightening though....
When my dad (who was a priest) watched the first version of the movie and saw the Priest getting choke out by a vampire, he postulated that since a Priest consecrates the sacrament with his hands (the bread an wine) his fists should work just as well as crosses.
Then I imagined the scene much differently as the Priest punching the vampire in the face and at least putting up more of a fight. Granted it might not have saved him from the others, but the fight scene would have been epic.
The Priest didn't get choked by a vampire in the first version. Are you thinking of the second version from 2004, where Rutger Hauer (vamp) forced James Cromwell (priest) to drink his blood?
The priest was challenged to pit his faith against Barlow. His faith in God. If he had thrown the cross aside, it would have shown that he indeed had true faith in God instead of having faith in the material thing in his hand. By not throwing it away, he showed that he did not have faith that God would protect him, only that the cross would protect him. That's why Barlow won.
@@Victorblud....very good obeservation ! Never thought of it that way , yes Excellent observation
Wasn't that what happened in From Dusk Till Dawn?
Good point💯
Reading about Father Callahan in The Dark Tower series made me go ahead and read Salem’s Lot, and the book is actually very good.
That glowing cross looks exactly how it’s described in the novels.
Yes, and I also love that the cross is physically repelling the vampire back like a powerful force and causing it immense pain. Looks cool af
Yea, DT was such a good series it made me read every adjacent book, and then some. The Stand was my favorite, hands down, but 'Salem's Lot (it's short for Jerusalem's Lot) was also really good.
@@whamsilson0869I like to think it generates heat that only vamps can feel. Won’t burn the human wielder.
IIRC, the crosses glowed blue, not yellow/orange.
@@benjaminperez7328 Thats not a bad take from it actually because if the cross or holy water comes into contact with them, it burns them.
I was 6 when the original came out. My parents let me watch it. Parenting in the 70's was wild lol.
Separated the mice from the men, though.
And the 90s. I was born in 85 and in the early 90s my parents let me rent whatever from the video store. Always went straight for the horror section and picked the coolest looking vhs sleeve haha
@@Red88Rex Same here.
Born in 78 and watched movies on Betamax and later VHS throughout the 80s and 90s.
Those cover arts were magic back then and I watched a lot of junk just because of the covers LOL
Same here - I was born in 79 and could watch whatever I wanted and read whatever I wanted. It was glorious
Not as much helicopter parenting back then.
70'S and 80'S horror is the BEST! Great job remaking this amazing Stephen King movie.
This would have made soooooooooooooooooooo much money in the theaters
It could have been perfect as a mid October release those year…
Not against Joker 2, Smile 2, and Venom 3
@@har795 Joker 2 is predicted to bomb spectacularly.
@@theushersden predicted
@@har795 Have you read the Joker reviews, lol. That will flop.
Why is this not in the movie theatres?
It is my favorite King book and this trailer looks terrific.
Because Warner Bros don't know what they are doing.
Oct 11th here in the UK
@@dkuk2000 How do we see this in europe. I live in Ireland so we dont get max....
It was gonna be. Then that awful person who is in charge didn't let it, but at least it's not canceled. Because he loves to cancel stuff.
@@daviddoyle7103 A pirate yee will need be, or a browser that can be custom regioned yee needs.
AAaarg!
I feel like the best version of Salems Lot has already been achieved with Midnight Mass
Watch the 1979 miniseries.
Midnight Mass is a masterpiece. Then again, everything Flanagan does is a masterpiece. Can't wait for his Dark Tower series! Hope it has Father Callahan in it. It would be cool if he used the same actor.
My thoughts exactly. The whole vibe in Midnight Mass really reminded me of Salem's Lot, even though the story was different
Yeah definitely took inspo from Salem’s Lot! And i can say the 1979 version has not aged very well, but Barlowe still might be the best head vampire ever put to screen.
Yes, you just reminded me of Midnight Mass. It was a brilliant tv show with great writing and cast.
Better than the original. I recommend watching this.
This was my first Stephen King's book, the Marsten house looks amazing
Now this is a remake I can get behind!
Not a remake. If the source material isn’t the same medium as the new version it is not a remake but a reimagining.
Except for that song. 😅
I like it! But then I’m OaF.
@@StoopidSnot It's a remake, Cletus. A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium-e.g., a "new version of an existing film".
@@titusmccarthy yea that is the definition of a remake but the source material was in a different medium. For example, the Resident Evil movies are not a remake of the game, and the last movie is not a remake of the original set of movies but a different version. The Dune movies are not remakes either as the book existed before the movie, same thing with the Crow. Every Batman movie the starts anew is not a remake of the previous or of the original either.
Salem’s Lot 2024 is not a remake of the 1997 movie as the movie was based of book, the 2024 movie is based of the book not the movie, Hance not a remake.
I regularly listen to the BBC Radio's version of Salem's Lot, that it has become my benchmark when it comes to this story.
I hope this stands up and turns out well.
I love it when the song "Sundown" transitions from stereo to mono...very creepy. "Sundown you better take care if I find you been creep'in round my back stairs" ...so fitting and perfect for this film. I'm definitely looking forward to watching it.
Most movies never match the book, but this looks damn near as close as I've yet to see in my 58 years. Glad I have Max as part of my bundle.
The last scene where Ben was grabbed wasn't really in the book. Dr. Cody and Mark Pertrie weren't black in the book and the former was a male.
@@joeofmacabre07 I doubt they'll have Alfre Woodard fall on a bed of spikes in the boarding room basement!
@@joeofmacabre07 I think they will "borrow heavily" from the book while making a completely new movie with a lot of different scenes. I read the climax (or at least a major scene) will take place at the drive-in theater.
@@joeofmacabre07 Well they gotta score their diversity points.
@@jeffreymercado2082 Skin color doesn't matter, right?! So who cares what color the actors are. They are American human beings playing American human beings. For decades we have had white British actors playing American characters. No complaints about that from anyone.
Even though it strayed somewhat from the source material, Tobe Hooper's 1979 2-part miniseries was a masterpiece. This'll need to be something special to be better.
Going to be tough to top that’s for sure
I was just going to say something about that. I loved that miniseries. It was a masterpiece. I was 12 years old when I saw it.
@@MargaretRosenbalm wish they just remade that, but this might be really good
@@MargaretRosenbalm I saw it originally when I was around 9 or 10, and I never watched the second part until several years later because Danny Glick at Mark Petrie's window gave me proper nightmares!
That thing was SCARY AF. This one has big shoes to fill.
113 minutes? Nah, it deserves more than that.
I thought this was going to be another miniseries like the excellent Tobe Hooper adaptation.
needs to be 113 hours
@@dan_hitchman007 that's what I thought too. I could have sworn that's what it was going to be. 😕
Right...Now they have a reason to release a Directors cut if it does well.
it does but most movies are shortened from what the book tells.
This story is actually a branch of The Dark Tower. Father Callahan is a big part of three Dark Tower books. They really did that Dark Tower movie dirty. I wish it could get a faithful adaptation.
One of the finest books by the King... there's a telefilm too from the 70s or 80s that's also beyond awesome!
@@realhbk316 it was a miniseries in 1979. It was so good.
18 years old when Salem's Lot came out. Had read that, Carrie and the Shining before realizing it was the same author. From that point on I bought everything he wrote. Honestly, I just wish they'd do limited series for his books. A movie is just too damn short to bring justice to a King novel.
I remember coming home in the 90’s on a comedown from acid and my mum was watching Salems Lot. As I walked in the living room the vampire was knocking on the window in the movie. That was a great moment to head upstairs to bed and try and sleep off the horror.
Once I took acid and someone was playing Led Zeppelin live, the song Dazed and Confused, and it was scarier than any horror film. That indescribable fear only people who have taken LSD understand. Song still freaks me out
Nothing can compare to the one from the 1970’s. The OG was by far the scariest movie I ever watch as a kid.
At sixteen years old, I picked up the book. I had to get my dad to lower the drapes if I neglected to stop reading before it was dark! I tell people that Stephen King made me dread vampires, and Anne Rice made me love them.
After seeing the buzz that this trailer is creating, I bet Warner Bros are kicking themselves for leaving this movie sitting on the shelf for over 2 years. Crazy.
Wow, I thought Warners gave this one the old "Batgirl" special. Very glad to see it's actually releasing!
This looks like it will actually be a good remake. I like that they are keeping it in the 70's
I remember getting chills reading so many scenes from this as a teenager; this truly feels like a direct adaptation and I hope it is!
The window , the graveyard , Matt and Cory Bryant...all in the trailer , they picked the right scenes for people who have seen the Tobe Hooper version
I read the book and watch the original movie, I'm glad they kept this version in the 70s
Salem’s Lot is a perfect horror movie for Halloween!
At first I was like, this can't be better than the OG, but it got my attention and I continued watching. It exceeded my expectations, and I can honestly say, it's up there with the og. I really liked it. Creepy good old horror flick. This one is a must watch. 10 stars 👍
Never dreamed a connection between Gordon Lightfoot's sundown and Vampires. Lol!
but now i love it
That scene at 2:15 with all the vampires on the rooftops, and in the street, is directly out of my nightmares. Overwhelming numbers ... no way I'm getting out of this type stuff.
Sometimes just bad people. Sometimes aliens. Sometimes vampires.
Had one just the other night with the vampires.
Only thing that is always the same is waking up soaked in sweat and trying to catch my breath.
At 2:19, I just hope Ben didn't die since he is the lead character from the start of the book.
i doubt he dies but you never know they do change stuff from book to screen.
Well, he doesn't die in the book so it'll be a major change if he does in this film. However, in 2003's Wolves of the Calla, which takes place some thirty years after the events of Salem's Lot, it's mentioned that Ben passed away and Mark Petrie attended his funeral. The two had remained in touch with each other all those years.
King's best work IMHO.
I'm very excited to watch this version of Salem's Lot because I really love the original
Why is Mark Petrie black? Damn Eggplants.
@@Saber808 S.L.
You can tell it's a horror show because the color grading is so dark and dim in every scene you have to squint to make out what you're looking at. Note to filmmakers: making your show actually hard to watch doesn't make it seem more scarry. This is a trend that should have been DOA but still it persists.
Oh!
Martin Scorsese ova here!
I was hoping someone would feel this way too - there's a way to light a dark scene so that you can still see what's happening
I agree. If the trailer is dark, I wont bother with the film.
A good horror film will take something mundane and make it terrifying. We don't live in an age of good horror films. So, all we have are people trying to make horror horrifying, which just doesn't work. Most horrible things happen in mundane settings. Give me a horror film in the sun over a horror film at night. The night is already creepy. If you can make a sunny day creepy then you may have a good idea.
And in fact the movie is crap. Mini black terminator who is unfazed even when his parents die or when he kills a man or when he is about to be killed a vampire kid 🤦🏻♂️
This trailer should not have shown all those scary scenes because they are creepy and will work well when audiences didn't see it before hand. I saw the '79 version and still remember those scenes vividly today.
Yea well it pretty much just showed you the entire movie. Now you dont have to see it😊
@@Sean-ms8hxWhat happens at the end
This looks fantastic! Can't wait to watch.
I'd love to see Max pick up Dead Boy Detectives, as well, now that Netflix has passed on a second season. Get all of our spooky Halloween content on one service
The look of this movie feels so much like what mike flanagan does and I love him, have to watch this for sure!
Very much like midnight mass, which was the best flanagan series imo
@@CharlieCaddick-x7x yes very much so
@@CharlieCaddick-x7x and that was very much like Flanagan's version of Salems Lot.
LFG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS😂. THE RECKONING IS NIGH😅
Mr Barlow is still the creepiest vampire. Hope they get it right in remake.
Nothing is as entertaining and as terrifying as our own imaginations .
Having just watched the movie .. I'll just say that us who know and love Stephen Kings novel will always just hold that dear and our own experiences with that.
Nothing can replace those images we've created in our mind or live up to the love we have for the novel.
Who's currently reading Salem's Lot?
Read it last year when this was originally supposed to come out. That cemetery scene 😬
I started rereading it a couple of days ago. It's been about 10 years since I read it last. Still in my top 5 books by King.
Yo mama is
Unironically started reading it for the first time two weeks ago. The timing is impeccable
I am listening to Per Semetary and the Long Walk myself atm
Usually I’m not for remakes but this one looks promising.
I don't really mind remakes if they come from a book. That way the source material can be copied rather than another movie.
I think it allows more variety.
I don't remember seeing the 1979 version or the 2004 one, but this one was decent.
The story was good & so was the acting.
It was not an over-the-top vampire movie which was good.
A quick & easy watch.
Thumbs up from me.
Nailed the year (1975). Nailed the atmosphere. Nailed the vampires. Nailed the iconic scenes (Morgue & Graveyard). The only thing left to see is Barlow. Personally, I hope we get a blend of the book and Tobe Hooper's Nosferatu version.
The trailer got the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. Well done.
Why is Mark Petrie black? Damn Eggplants.
@@Saber808 S.L.
The best use of Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Sundown’ ever 🇨🇦
Unfortunately that was the only good part of the movie.
The 1979 TV mini-series was directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and was absolutely terrifying!! I remember people were calling the television station complaining about how frightening it was and trying to get them to not air the second part. This just looks like a CGI hopped up remake.
So Awesome To See This Finally Coming Out! Most Of The Movie Was Filmed In My Hometown In Ipswich, Massachusets And Most Days I Would Go Downtown And Visit The Set And See Them Film! Me And My Dad Are Huge Horror Fans And We Can't Wait To See This!
The only Emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream.
@@Thoralmir If I ever feel like confusing someone I'm talking to on social media I'll start reciting the parts of this poem that's in the book. Lol
This column has a hole…
Lol this is one of my favorites snippets from the book.
Let be be finale of seem,
And you just ran a chill down my spine!