Salem's Lot

"Be careful what you invite inside."

2024 1h 53m EN

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★6.0TMDB · 754●47Metacritic★5.6IMDB · 39,469

Horror

Synopsis

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Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

“Be careful what you invite inside.”

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Cast

Lewis Pullman
Ben Mears
Makenzie Leigh
Susan Norton
Jordan Preston Carter
Mark Petrie
Alfre Woodard
Dr. Cody
Bill Camp
Matt Burke
John Benjamin Hickey
Father Callahan
Nicholas Crovetti
Danny Glick
Spencer Treat Clark
Mike Ryerson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gary Dauberman
Writers: Darrin Denlinger, Gary Dauberman
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Gary Dauberman, shot by Michael Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nathan Barr. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Lewis Pullman and Makenzie Leigh and Jordan Preston Carter carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Be careful what you invite inside.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt10245072 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Gary Dauberman directs. Michael Burgess behind the camera. Nathan Barr scores. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 2 years ago.
2Directed by Gary Dauberman, shot by Michael Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Nathan Barr. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Lewis Pullman and Makenzie Leigh and Jordan Preston Carter carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Be careful what you invite inside.".
6IMDB entry: tt10245072 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 9 themes, including "based on novel or book", "vampire", "remake", "priest".

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Burgess
Original score: Nathan Barr
Production design: Marc Fisichella
Costume design: Virginia B. Johnson
Makeup / hair: Margina Dennis
VFX supervisor: Jessica Chamberlin
Runtime: 113 min · 1h 53m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $851,156
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Salem's Lot (2024)
Metacritic: 47/100
IMDB rating: 5.6/10 · 39,469 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 nominations total

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kevin20192024-10-11
★ 5/10
"Salem's Lot" is a well paced and perfectly watchable film that often manages to strike out on its own with a considerable degree of success. However, it proves to be a different matter entirely when it tackles the more spooky scenes which had the hallucinatory quality of a fever dream and made the original such a compulsive and memorable viewing experience. It recreates each one of these scenes, but with considerably less effectiveness (this is in large part due to the noticeable absence of Harry Sukman's superb music to magnify and intensify them) and as a direct consequence of this the scenes in question - Marjorie Glick on a mortician's table rising to join the undead, Mike Ryerson returning from the dead and so on - lack the necessary fear and tension in this latest incarnation which just confirms that Tobe Hooper's version of "Salem's Lot" (1979) is still the ultimate in terror.
r96sk2024-10-11
★ 7/10
Overstays its welcome and isn't as interesting as it could've been, but what's there is still serviceable. I really enjoyed the cast, I think every member does a neat job - without that being the case, I'd probably be rating this film a touch lower. Lewis Pullman leads events well, while Makenzie Leigh, Alfre Woodard and Bill Camp are able supports. The kid actors are solid as well, the standout evidently being Jordan Preston Carter. Good to see Pilou Asbæk, too. As noted at the top, this does overrun. It felt a fair bit longer than 113 minutes, a more fitting run time may have worked wonders. I did like how, aside from the obvious, no cast member had major plot armour, admittedly one of the young ones does seem a tad overpowered in regards to what he achieves throughout. All in all, I'd consider <em>'Salem’s Lot'</em> a narrowly passable horror flick.
MovieGuys2024-10-14
★ 5/10
For anyone old enough to remember, Coles Notes offered students an accessible summary of famous works, by the likes of Dickens, Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Something similar can be said of the latest cinematic iteration of Stephen Kings book, Salem's Lot. This is an abridged version of Kings vampiric tale. It plays out in broad, somewhat hurried, expository strokes, absent the deeper essence of the work. Things happen quickly, at the expense of a slowly established atmosphere of creeping dread, as the viewer comes to see whats really going on, in the rural town, of Salem's Lot. Indeed, the core of what makes this tale so terrifying, is revealed in the opening scenes. In short, this is Salem's Lot for the impatient. Frankly, the first cinematic production of Salem's Lot, starring David Soul, remains, I believe, by far the best re-imagining of Kings work, to this day. In summary, the latest cinematic edition of Salem's Lot is not awful but it rushes through the story, largely spoiling the atmosphere of creeping terror, I believe, is at the bloody heart, of this nightmarish tale.