The residents of Salem’s Lot find out that the trouble of being from a small town is all the damn vampires.
So this is an odd one in terms of my reviews, technically it was a TV series, but I saw it as one long film at a re-release, so it is both a TV review and also a film review.
This is a much better adaptation than the more recent Salem’s Lot film chiefly as it actually gives the characters time to become established before it starts killing them off. The greater effort in character work makes the deaths more impactful and makes the wider project more engaging.
As someone who has read the book and watched now both this and the newer version I can say that this has a worse ending than the film from last year, probably the only way in which that film is better. In last year’s effort the hero and his sidekick drive off into the sunset, possibly to fight more vampires, whereas here we get a whole extra ten to fifteen minutes showing them doing it. Whilst the vampire fighting may sound cool it really isn’t and ends up becoming tedious during this section.
In terms of vampire horror this is basically just Dracula in small town America, and if that is your thing then you’ll enjoy this for sure.
Overall, a good vampire film but nothing that will set the world on fire.
3/5
Pros.
It has a good atmosphere
It builds up the characters well
Some good vampire moments
Cons.
The ending
The pacing is quite slow at times
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