Get ready to jump out of your recliner. After two previous efforts, one from Tobe Hooper in 1979 starring Starsky & Hutch’s David Soul, and another with a bigger cast in 2004 including Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, and James Cromwell, at last Stephen King’s 1975 vampire novel Salem’s Lot (his personal favorite) is coming to Max as a movie. And it will be here in time for Halloween.
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown isn’t what it was. The movie stars Bad Times at El Royale’s Lewis Pullman (a ringer for father Bill Pullman). Watching the younger Pullman is sort of like getting another lifetime of acting out of his dad. The movie also stars Academy Award-nominated actress Alfre Woodard, Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit), Unbreakable’s Spencer Treat Clark, Bill & Ted’s William Sadler, and Jessica Jones’ John Benjamin Hickey–a cast that looks like it can pull off a 1970s horror story–the preview looks like a 1970s era John Carpenter movie like Halloween or The Fog. And it’s directed by Gary Dauberman, who brought us the great Swamp Thing series.
Check out the trailer for Salem’s Lot:
Kudos for Warner Bros. for bringing a Stephen King novel to the small screen as a movie instead of a series.
Salem’s Lot arrives on Max in a few short weeks: October 3, 2024.
C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg
