Max has just revealed when their new adaption of Stephen King‘s Salem’s Lot will be released, as well as a trailer full of shadows, growling vampires and wistful-sounding 70s music.
Author Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot, ME in search of inspiration for his next book. But something doesn’t feel the same, and the bad vibes seem to be emanating from the creepy old mansion sitting at the top of the hill. Mears hears it has a new tenant: Kurt Barlow. who resides in near solitude with his assistant Richard Straker. They say Barlow does come out at night, to feed. Mears doubts the rumor he’s really a VAMPIRE — until the evidence is undeniable. Barlow’s victims become his bloodthirsty disciples and it won’t be long before the numbers get so large no one will be able to stop him.
Salem’s Lot is the third adaption of Stephen King’s second published book, following efforts made for television in 1979 and 2004. It established a lot of his tropes: the Maine setting, the writer protagonist, the dysfunctional townspeople, and the blanketing sense of dread. This adaption was meant to be the big-screen version, but for unexplained reasons WB has shifted its release to a Max debut instead.
Lewis Pullman stars in this new version of Salem’s Lot as Ben Mears, Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody, Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, Bill Camp as Matthew Burke, Spencer Treat Clark as Mike Ryerson, Pilou Asbæk as Straker, and John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan. The movie premieres October 6 exclusively on Max.
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