• Horror

Salem's Lot 2024

The 2024 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel 'Salem's Lot is a horror movie that premiered on Max on October 3, 2024, after a limited screening at the Beyond Fest on September 25, 2024. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman and produced by James Wan, the film stars Lewis Pullman as protagonist Ben Mears, an author who returns to his childhood hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, hoping to find inspiration for his next book by writing about the notoriously haunted Marsten House. He quickly befriends local teacher Matt Burke (Bill Camp) and begins a romance with Susan Norton (Makenzie Leigh). The town's quiet life is shattered by the mysterious arrival of antiques dealer R.T. Straker (Pilou Asbæk) and his unseen business partner, the ancient vampire Kurt Barlow (Alexander Ward), who take up residence in the Marsten House. When a local child goes missing and his brother dies only to return as a vampire, Ben, Susan, Matt, Mark Petrie (Jordan Preston Carter), Father Callahan (John Benjamin Hickey), and Dr. Cody (Alfre Woodard) realize their town is being systematically overrun by a burgeoning vampire plague. The group unites to fight the escalating evil, culminating in a climactic confrontation at the local drive-in theater, but the tightly-paced 113-minute runtime has been noted in reviews for condensing the sprawling narrative and ensemble character development of King's original novel. Read More

• 2024
• 1 h : 53 min
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