Salem's Lot
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Movie Reviews of Salem's Lot
Movie Review: Don't show this movie to little kids
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, Salems Lot was released in the early 80's and it still scares me today. But if you have a kid who wants to watch it and is under 10. Stop and say no. This movie will scare the hell
out of them and they won't sleep for 2 days. There's no adult content or anything in it. If you like horror movies or just want a good scare, Salem's Lot is a must buy. If you watch it at night, you will be scared to death. The down side of Salem's Lot is that it's 4 hours long! If you want to watch this, see it at day time only. But if you think you're so tough, watch the whole thing at midnight. It will scare the poo out of you!
Its also very very very scary. The first parts are boring, but when people start explaining children and people starting to mysteriously dissapear, people get scared and it shows the vampire. Sure in the back he won't look scary but when he's in action is what scares you. Even a crucifix dosen't effect the vampire! Like it says in the back of the box, "its hard to keep
the undead down and so easy to be scared in Salems Lot"
Movie Review: Watching Salem's Lot changed my entire childhood.
Summary: 5 Stars
I, as an 8 year old child, saw this movie on TV. It was shown over 2 nights. It changed the rest of my childhood. The first night ended with a freeze frame of a child vampire's eyes as he bit a victim. This picture is burned into my mind. The second night the same child vampire scratches on another child's bedroom/hostpital window to come in, and floats into the room surrounded by fog. The music, combined with this scene, completely terrified me. After watching it, I had difficulty sleeping, as I had a window right at the foot of my bed. I just got a chill writing this, as I remember my nights spent staring at my window. I always slept with covers pulled up to my neck, no matter how hot it was out. I just watched it again as a 29 year old, and after watching it, I was jumping at sounds in my home, and turning on lights at night to go into a different room of my house, instead of just going in the dark like normal.Definitely a movie that could affect adults, and could give a child viewer nightmares, fears, and phobias lasting a lifetime.
Movie Review: Blood Curling The Scariest Vampire Movie on the Small Screen
Summary: 5 Stars
Rewatched movie in its full entiriety 30 years later and it is just as scary today as it was when I was a little child. Please make sure you buy the full version. There is a Salem's Lot: The Movie which cuts out over 70 minutes of material and leaves the viewer disastified. The movie version even cuts out the beginning and the ending of the film, which is very crucial to the story line. In the full length version, you have more key scenes with the supporting stars including Marie Windsor, Elisa Cook, and etc. The romanatic story line is cut in the movie version between David Soul and Bonnie Bedelia, in a very early role before the snooty mother and sister in the classic "Sordid Lives." The movie version is choppy and incomplete. Don't buy it. Make sure you have the over 370 minutes version. David Soul is very handsome in this film as well. James Mason gives one of his last performances as the vampire's keeper and is very effective. The music is creepy, the vampires are almost too scary. Make sure you don't watch this alone.Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything clicked on this ratings smash mini-series adapted from Stephen King's visionary novel. The purposely slow and steady direction of Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper the original, and best, Salem's Lot, in which Ben Mears (David Soul) returns to his childhood home, and soon finds that a powerful vampire has taken up residence and is preying on the town. What helps make Salem's Lot so effective is the same formula that helped make Hooper's original Chainsaw movie so great: giving the atmosphere an intense sense of dread and fear, almost without having to shed a single drop of blood. Not to mention that the cast does terriffic work, including a creepy James Mason as the mysterious Straker who serves as the vamp's henchman. With knowing nods to classic films of the genre, including the classic german silent film Nosferatu, the original Salem's Lot is lightyears beyond the recent TNT remake, and is by far the best Stephen King adapted TV mini-series of all time.Movie Review: You can't go wrong with Salems Lot....
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were a kid in the 70's you knew who David Soul and Lance Kerwin were. If you were a little older, you also knew that James Mason was a highly respected actor, and the entire cast was made up of people you had seen before on TV, this wasn't a cast of unknowns. Like many made-for-tv miniseries of the day, it starred lots of Hollywood TV regulars.
The movie stands the test of time well, with only the occasional bad fashion to date it.
The acting is well done, and overall this is one of those movies that, I think, remains timeless. Great diologue, an overall great story, and some truly creepy scenes (The child vampires floating in mist, clawing at windows STILL gives me the creeps!).
In fact, Salems Lot has the distinction of being one of the best King novels ever put to film TWICE. The more recently done version starring Rob Lowe is also fantastic.
Give it the once over, its definately worth investing a few hours with.