Stephen King has shared his enthusiasm about the upcoming Salem's Lot adaptation in the best way possible. "My and my friend the Count await the premiere of the latest 'SALEM'S LOT, October 3, HBO Max," he wrote on Twitter, along with a photo of him with a framed poster of the movie, holding a Dracula figure – perfect for a vampire movie.

Despite Stephen King’s prodigious output of fiction and the 50-odd movie adaptations of his work, he remains a tough nut to translate. The argument could be made that the only filmmakers to capture the delicious dread lying under the skin of the creepier King story have been Brian De Palma (“Carrie”) and Stanley Kubrick (“The Shining”),

I have yet to watch Salem’s Lot , but apparently the vampire in the movie looks more like the vampire from Nosferatu than the version that Stephen King describes in his book. The inspiration for the vampire design came from the classic 1979 miniseries adaptation,

Salem’s Lot is one of Stephen King’s best books, and though Tobe Hooper’s 1979 TV miniseries adaptation is an uneven creature of the night, it features one scene—of a young vampire trying to gain entry into a friend’s home via a second-floor bedroom window—that’s the stuff of nightmares.

Lewis Pullman and Alfre Woodard star in the horror drama about an author who returns to his hometown in search of creative inspiration, only to find it under attack by a monster.

The way in which many filmmakers have circumvented this obstacle in the past is by not adapting the books as features but instead as miniseries, and Salem’s Lot is a prime example. The novel (which is the second King had published) is not one of the writer’s longest tomes,

There's nothing about the new feature-film adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot that feels particularly fresh or novel — unless you count the fact that it has no interest in being anything other than an earnest,

Every Constant Reader has their own special Stephen King origin story. For example, my personal fascination with the author dates back to watching director Mary Lambert’s Pet Se

Salem's Lot first reactions are finally in after the Stephen King vampire movie's 2-year delay, revealing just how worth the wait the adaptation is.