Review: Salem's Lot (2024)
Gary Dauberman delivers a defanged version of a Stephen King classic.
There’s a sequence at the end of Salem’s Lot that is a fantastic depiction of Stephen King’s ability to use Americana to breathe new life into old horror tropes. It’s a climactic showdown at a drive-in movie theater, as an army of vampires wakes up not from coffins but out of the trunks of their parked cars. It’s riveting, drawing suspense through the c…
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