Salem's Lot: A Horror of Stephen King's Gold Standard

Inevitably, like taxes and death, another egg of renewed film classics has hatched on the streaming platform Max. Deservedly, such news hits our collective distrust, but for the new "Salem's Lot", based on the novel by Stephen King, it would not be fair to meet with such a primitive attitude.
First of all, King is a classic that has transcended time and space, which is why it is quite natural for his works to be updated at some point. This is not a fashion, but a tradition. The writer is not a trademark of any generation, and his books have managed to touch that point of permanence that makes them relevant every decade. And even better, and worthy of praise, is when King's work meets a director like Gary Dauberan ("Annabelle", "The Nun") - a true connoisseur of the classics, who knows how to mix it with modern influences without overdoing it. The new "Salem's Lot", the work of the director, has passed through this filter, and a satisfactorily decent film has turned out - an example of the old school
The framework of the story is exemplary and clean: three acts and one twist at the end. The characters blindly follow King's standard, and the tension like needles, but not so strong that you drop your popcorn out of fear. In other words, Daubermann made a film according to a template, and this had an excellent effect on the final result. However, if you are not Stanley Kubrick, when you film Stephen King, it is preferable to use ready-made criteria, rather than stumbling over creative interpretations, which rarely work. With the new Salem's Lot, Dauberman makes it clear that he is not the next Kubrick, but he is good enough to put together a decent horror film today. Its updated story begins with writer Ben Mears (Louis Pullman), who returns to his hometown because he has fallen into an insurmountable creative hole and is looking for fresh inspiration. We don't know what torments him, but it seems as if the hero is tormented by something from the past and returns to his birthplace in an attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the bathed by the
But outside of this omission, "Salem's Lot" is a very pleasant film in tune with the October weather outside. It creates a mood of danger and awakens the nostalgia of melancholic viewers without boring them.