Horror Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

So, uh, what the hell happened to this?

 

[The Joker]

Yeah I was really looking forward to it.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Filmfreak]

Lol what? Wasn't WBD committed to bringing films in cinemas only? Zaslav made that thing very clear when he took over.

I wonder how messy the movie might be.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Yeah, not looking good that's for sure

 

[Pennywise]

 

[The Joker]

Damn. Do we have any idea why its currently shelved?

 

[:eek:]

POSTER FOR SALEM'S LOT?​

Posted: November 9, 2023, 16:22
Section: Film » Salem's Lot
Here is what's said to be the poster for the remake of 'Salem's Lot. The poster also shows that it's set for a HBO Max release.

This hasn't been confirmed by the studio yet so condider it a rumor until we know more.

Copied from Lilja's Library: Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

This is going to be tax write-off isn’t it?

 

[Pennywise]

 

[The Joker]

Well at least we'll get to see it.

 

[Filmfreak]

I thought Zaslav didn't want to make streaming movies.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

You JUST beat me to it!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

More photos:

 

[DarkKnight88]

Finally going to be released! Thankful for that.

But sending it to streaming just breaks my heart. Unfortunately not a good sign for its quality. This should’ve had IT levels of hype.

 

[The Joker]

Finally. I don't know why they waited so long to release this.

 

[Pennywise]

Some quotes from the article:

“Pilou is just ******* crazy charismatic,” Dauberman says. “I wanted him to really have fun with it, and let him run with that character. And we had a lot of fun going, ‘Okay, do one more grounded take. Do one a little bit more heightened. Do one wayover the top.’”
Fashioning this Renfield henchman with extra savoir faire is an example of how Dauberman amped up the audaciousness of Salem’s Lot, pimping him out in a purple cloak, feathered Homburg hat, and push broom mustache. This is a character who is not trying to lie low, and the townsfolk see him as exotic rather than an outcast.
“I was kind of wrestling with what this Straker was going to be? Is he going to be more like the book? Is he going to be more James Mason from the [1979] series?” Dauberman says. “He’s an outsider in this town. And I think outsiders can sometimes be looked at as something very interesting, where people start to lean in. ‘Oh, this guy, he’s opening this antique store and he’s got all this cool stuff…’ He’s weaving his web and drawing people in.”

As Straker harvests his master’s initial victims, the first to vanish are two boys, big brother Danny and little Ralphie Glick (Nicholas Crovetti and Cade Woodward,respectively). Their friend, horror fanatic Mark Petrie (Jordan Preston Carter), has seen enough movies to know he should keep his window locked when a sharp-toothed schoolyard pal is floating outside, but few adults are willing to believe his claims, apart from a kindly but weary old teacher Matthew Burke (Bill Camp of The Queen’s Gambit) who serves as this story’s Van Helsing.

Carter, who was only 13 when he filmed it, is the movie’s breakout star. Dauberman said the actor made the most of an already dynamic character. “He’s got one of the best introductions in the book, where he ****ing punches the bully,” the filmmaker says. “It’s not the kid who gets beat up and then he goes home. He fights back and he stands up for himself. It pays off as we go through the story of seeing how he won’t back down against the vampires either.”

The filmmaker’s inspirations are scattered throughout his version of Salem’s Lot as barely-veiled homages.

For instance, in what may be the book’s most famous scene—an undead boy floating outside his best friend’s window—Dauberman has decorated Mark Petrie’s bedroom with a poster for the 1974 blaxploitation classic Sugar Hill, about a woman leading a voodoo-powered gang of the undead in revenge against the mobsters who put a hit on her boyfriend. “My tastes kind of go that way,” the director says. “And Salem’s Lot itself was so heavily influenced by Dracula and other popular culture stuff that Stephen had watched and read.”

Even King’s ’80s-era paperback for the book, featuring a pair of eyes hovering in dusky nighttime hues, became inspiration for the scene in which the Glick boys are stalked in the woods. Dauberman shot it monochromatically, with their silhouettes against a bright blue background. While finalizing the film with colorist Peter Doyle,the pair called up images of that old paperback cover to mimic its gradations of vivid, dripping red.

The midnight movie aesthetic also helped shape another key sequence, when the besieged heroes launch a counterattack against the undead townspeople. Instead of going house to house, as in the book, he set the sequence at an actual drive-in, with the bloodsuckers emerging from the darkness of their car trunks as the sun sets behind the giant white movie screen. “It’s this crazy sugar-high of a scene,” Dauberman says. “I thought, ‘Yeah, this is what this is. This is a drive-in movie.’”

That’s even a line in King’s original book in which one of the characters reflects on where she learned her Nosferatu lore: “She had seen enough Hammer films at the drive-in on double dates to know you had to pound a stake into a vampire’s heart.”

The filmmaker believes that kind of outdoor venue would be the best setting to see his version of Salem’s Lot, but since it will be presented exclusively on Max, he proposes viewers find a way to simulate the communal experience in front of their TVs. “As with most horror movies, I think audiences really elevate the experience,” he says. “So I think getting as many people as you can cram on the couch would be my preferred way to watch this.”

 

[Kane52630]

Yet another movie ruined by modern day lighting and digital cameras. Love Dauberman but it just looks like a streaming movie.

 

[Pennywise]

First clip:



An interview with Entertainment Weekly:

 

[DarkKnight88]

A clip before a trailer?

Gimme the trailer!

 

[The Joker]

Really liked the clip. The atmosphere was great.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Lasirius]