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Salem’s Lot – REVIEW

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The 1970s served as a productive era for Stephen King’s novels, with many notable adaptations arising during that time. For instance, ‘Carrie’ was the first significant adaptation featuring one of cinema’s most memorable shock endings; ‘The Shining’, elevated by Stanley Kubrick, surpassed the book in quality, and the 1979 TV two-part version of Salem’s Lot left audiences, particularly children who secretly watched it on portable TVs, feeling genuinely terrified. The image of a vampire boy floating outside his friend’s bedroom window is now an iconic scene within King’s body of work. Currently, there’s a big-screen remake of Salem’s Lot underway, with Gary Dauberman at the helm – he’s best recognized for his James Wan spinoff films ‘Annabelle’ and ‘The Nun II’.