Streamin’ King is grave-digging through the myriad Stephen King adaptations available on streaming. This time we’re watching Max’s brand new Salem’s Lot, the first-ever feature film adaptation of the 1975 novel.
THE GIST: In a film finally seeing daylight after shooting four years ago, it’s the mid-’70s and Jerusalem’s Lot is being methodically vampirized by an ancient European lord of the night and his fancy-lad familiar. The only thing standing between the vamps and the soul of this small Maine town is author Ben Mears and his scrappy ka-tet comprised of a priest, teacher, doctor, schoolboy/horror enthusiast, and Ben’s new girlfriend Susan.
PEDIGREE: Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, one of the screenwriters behind 2017’s It, went solo on the sequel. Salem’s Lot is his sophomore directorial outing after 2019’s Annabelle Comes Home, one of four Conjuring universe movies he penned. Stars Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Pilou Asbæk (Game
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