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Salem's Lot review: More laughs than shrieks in this vapid vampire flick, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: October is upon us and with it the inevitable bloody drip-drip-drip of scary films, serving the ravenous monster that the Halloween industry has become.
If the town's sheriff had any guts he'd know to pin the mysterious deaths of two young boys and their resurrection as vampires on newly arrived antique-shop owner Mr Straker (played on telly by James Mason and here by Pilou Asbaek), who all but wears a sign on his head saying 'dangerous creepy guy'. This time the carnage takes place at Christmas rather than Halloween, with Art obtaining his Santa suit like any self-respecting psycho, by ritually torturing and then slaughtering the chubby old grandpa to whom it belonged, using a canister of liquid nitrogen to weaponise a carrot. With metallic characters such as D-16 and B-127, you'd think a spot of WD-40 might ease relations, but anyway there's lots of angry fighting and an A-list voice cast also including Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.
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