31 FIRST TIME TREATS 26: Salem's Lot

 31 FIRST TIME TREATS 26: Salem's Lot  





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Blood and guts:  what it is and who made it


first cut: My opening salvo what I thought coming into this media


The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky. Self explanatory 


Sinister superlatives. Also self explanatory  


The Death Rattle: my final thoughts and rating 





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The Blood and guts:

Salem's Lot  

November 17 –November 24, 197

183 minute


Sub genres Vampiers steven king mystery 


Where I watched it. My Vudu digital collection 


What’s it about


5 unlikely heroes try and unravel a grisly string of murders besieging a small town! As the evil grows all signs point to a house that has always been a A beacon to true evil


Who made it 


Directed by Tobe Hopper


Screenplay by Paul Monas

Adapted from the novel by the king of kings Salems lot



Music by Harry Sukman 


Producer Richard Kobritz


Cinematography Jules Brenner


Editor Carroll Sax



whose in it:  



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first cut


This sort of doubles as a list of shame entry for me


I’ve never read the book. I’ve never seen any of the movies, but this title lives in a legacy spot for me because the main Nosferatu looking vampire fella, scared the shit out of me when I caught the commercial for it as a kid I was at my grandmothers house sitting way too close to the TV. The commercial came on and I remember seeing that vampire and the kid floating outside the window and literally clutching onto the shag carpet.  I sat down to watch the remake because I’m trying to keep this year quasi-modern, give people some spooky time of the year selections to watch or not watch but I saw the OG listed right next to it on Max, so I re-navigated to my digital collection (Salems lot was probably one of the first things I bought on VUDU) so let’s dig into this and see if it’s anywhere close to where I’ve built it up to be over the years




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The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky 


The good


I love David soul so much! As a kid, I adored Starsky and Hutch, especially He looked like a normal guy, but he was rugged enough to be an action hero. He is the perfect detective in this flick. I definitely got some repairman jack Vibes. I didn’t know till earlier today that he was also a popstar my sort of entertainer. I’m obsessed with people who cross mediums.





It’s funny how much a novelty of an orchestra score is in any horror movie… I mean like a big, bombastic orchestra score like this one.


I LOVE. Fred Willard He is my doood! I love seeing him in a serious role! he’s great sleepy used car salesmen sorta guy 





I’ve always had a big giant crush on Bonnie Bedelia , She is absolutely the heart of die hard. She’s awesome in this, and I am totally into the aloof, flirting relationship of her and soul. They are like two people who banter have been waiting their whole life to connect with the other ones.


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What a fucking cast. every character in this is great and multifaceted


I love how Parkins Gillespie both plays into and subverts the trope of the small town cop. 


I love that that make James Mason’s character be a “familiar” without bogging it down a bunch of mythology. They just show him do superpowered familiar shit.  he’s Barlows Renfield. He’s handled very similarly to the character that takes care of Jerry  in fright night.



Mark is awesome I just love the character I love Monster kids his model making I’m really into the whole thing! Mark is one of us! And then when he goes for monster hunter after the death of his parents, he jumps into two different sub genres that I love the kids on bikes or kids versus monsters trope and obviously the overarching monster hunter trope I just love it to death.


I love the little three-man team, that forms, a doctor, a teacher, and a writer, who all look like they belong more and Bob Newhart than fighting evil. Its soooo real 


That whole cross vampire doctor heart attack seen A++


I did not expect to see a parental death by a vampire, performing a double noggin knocker, but I am 100% here for it!


I absolutely adored the prologue in the epilogue. I spent a couple hours before I sat down to rent some space in your eyes thinking about the further adventures of Mark and Paul. Yeah, I really like that, despite the fact that it broke my fucking heart. 





The bad 


While I enjoy the score, and moreover, the fact that it exists, it is a little overpowering sometime


I feel like the defeat of Barlow was kind of anticlimactic. A bit of furniture moving, and a steak did not match the menace or build they had created for him.


-1/2 star for cheap heat, animal killing


The spooky 


James “Fucking” Mason!!!!  Richard Straker was more menacing than the Nosferatu looking fella. Upon this, watching, I feel he hast to be one of the most underrated villains in horror. Sophisticated scary but even at his most Devenir he has a brutish quality to him. I love him so much.



Barlow is scary his overall look and the performance is every bit with the small sample I got as a kid had promised.


The Cully, Bonnie Sawyer shotgun, showdown is like it’s out of another movie, but is on its own super affective and super uncomfortable. I was lounging when I watch this, and I definitely found myself legitimately at the edge of my seat during this.





Those goddamn floaty window kids. I hate it nightmare fuel since 1979


Everything about the scene where Barlow bus into Marks house and Stocker is negotiating with the priest is incredible. Barlow entrance is incredible.


That house! When they finally got inside Marsten House it was everything I imagined it was a house that was evil to the core. I would’ve loved an anthology series just about all the evil happenings that went on at that house.


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Sinister superlatives


Best kill: Doctor impaled on antlers (The Leanna Quigley special)


Best Scare: Anytime, a spooky Glick kid is floating in front of somebody’s window


Best : actor James Mason


Best character: Ben Mears


Best quote: The house was a monument to evil sitting there all these years holding the essence of evil in its smoldering bones.


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The Death Rattle


It has some limitation’s mostly from budget and The fact that it was on TV but it’s really good! Ya know, Outside of Christopher Lee’s  Dracula I’m not a huge vampire guy I mean I like the high spots as much as anyone but they’re not my favorite monster.  Salems lot is everything I want out of m vampire mythology. The classics, sunlight, holy water, coffins, wooden, stakes, and crosses. I liked all the characters and I was 100% in on the story. Despite everything I love, if I’m being honest, this flick didn’t live up to its potential in regards to all the tools that had, I think most of that comes down to the fact that it was on network, television, and the limitations and hardship of just adapting kings my inner monologue heavy backbreaking hard to Cary large books. with the cast, Director and source material, this thing had the potential to be an absolute every horror fans top-five classic

So since I’m grading this on the actual film and not  its potential, but don’t get tricked by my


What doodles thinks When I watched this, it was sunny and breezy outside and she couldn’t be bothered to leave the open window so while I was watching this, she was sunbathing no opinion at all. Despite everything I love, if I’m being honest, this flick didn’t live up to its potential in regards to all the tools that had, I think most of that comes down to the fact that it was on network, television, and the limitations and hardship of just adapting kings, inner monologue heavy backbreaking hard to Cary large books.

So I’m grading this on the actual film more than its potential, but don’t get tricked by my honesty. If you haven’t seen this, I highly recommend it.


My Weasel Dooley style star ratings   ****


Would I buy it I did in two different formats 


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