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‘’Salem’s Lot’ Review: After Two Years on the Shelf, Stephen King’s Vampire Do-Over Is Mediocre to the Max
'It' screenwriter Gary Dauberman's aggressively average take on King's second novel could’ve been worse. In fact, it could’ve never come out at all.
Long before “True Blood” or “Twilight” brought vampires to small-town America, horror writer Stephen King imagined the creatures invading his backyard in rural Maine (technically, a fictional place called Jerusalem’s Lot). I haven’t seen Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” yet, but I suspect even that silent-movie remake won’t feel as oldfangled as “’Salem’s Lot,” in which the characters turn to comic books for instructions on how to ward off the undead: using holy water and crosses, which shine white in their presence. These days, the sight of someone repelling a vampire with a crucifix made of taped-together tongue depressors seems silly, whereas I’ve heard stories of kids who caught “’Salem’s Lot” on TV carrying popsicle sticks for that same purpose.
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