SALEM'S LOT: The Chilling First Trailer For Max's Stephen King Adaptation Has Finally Been Released

SALEM'S LOT: The Chilling First Trailer For Max's Stephen King Adaptation Has Finally Been Released

Max has finally released a trailer for director Gary Dauberman's new adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, and it features a chilling first glimpse of ancient vampire, Kurt Barlow...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 12, 2024 03:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Via FearHQ

After a number of lengthy delays, it was recently announced that Warner Bros. and New Line's re-adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot will debut on the Max streaming service on October 3rd, and the first trailer has finally been released online.

The teaser introduces writer Ben Mears (Thunderbolts* actor Lewis Pullman), as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot to do research for his new book. Ben soon realizes that the "haunted" house that traumatized him as a child has some new occupants, and they have sinister plans for The Lot.

Ben joins Susan Norton (Makenzie Leigh), Doctor Cody (Alfre Woodard), Mark Petrie (Jordan Preston Carter) and Father Callahan (John Benjamin Hickey) in an attempt to stop the evil Kurt Barlow before he consumes the entire town.

Though we do see other vampires - the nightmare fuel undead child scratching at the window scene from Tobe Hooper's TV movie is recreated -  Barlow himself is mostly kept under wraps here, aside from one quick glimpse as a car boot is opened, and another as he comes hurtling through a wall.

Check out the trailer and poster below, and let us know what you think in the comments section.

"Salem's Lot is such a special book because there's a lot of macro sociopolitical themes in there. It's not just a horror book," Pullman said of this latest take on the story in a recent interview. "How Gary approached it was almost like, this is not a horror movie. This is a movie about a small town in America where something horrific happens. He was trying to also rekindle the fire of mystique about vampires. They've shifted in many different ways over the last couple of decades in terms of pop culture. I think Gary really wanted to return back to this very mysterious, almost mythological lens on them."

Last year, we got word that Warner Bros. had pushed Salem's Lot back to April 21, 2023 after previously planning to release it on September 9, 2022 Since then, the movie appeared to be removed from the schedule altogether, and there were concerns that it may be shelved following David Zaslav's decision to write off the Batgirl movie. 

Then, back in March, New Line confirmed the rumor that the vampire horror film will skip theaters altogether and debut on the Max streaming service. Previous trade reports have noted that this "is not a reflection of the film’s quality, but is due to the fact that the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has created a growing need for Max content."

The movie also stars Bill Camp and Spencer Treat Clark. Recent IT adaptation writer Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) directs, and also penned the screenplay.

King's novel tells the story of a writer named Ben Mears who returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, only to find himself drawn to an old house that traumatized him as a child. The Marsten House is an evil place, and an evil place attracts evil men. Unfortunately for Ben and the rest of the town, this time the evil men in question are powerful vampire Kurt Barlow and his devious familiar Richard Straker.

Are you looking forward to a new take on Salem's Lot?

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/12/2024, 3:12 PM
What a good trailer, too bad ZASLAV IS AN IDIOT AND HE'S PUTTING IT ON STREAMING. Disney wanted to put Alien Romulus on Hulu, instead they now have the highest grossing Alien movie... [frick] streaming! Get off your asses
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/12/2024, 4:15 PM
@bobevanz - A good creepy vampire movie up on the big-screen in the month of October would make perfect sense to a lost Amazon Rain-Forest tribe that has yet to discover fire but it still somehow escaped the awareness of the producers of this flick. SMH 🙄
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 9/12/2024, 3:15 PM
Don't know what the budget is but...This definitely should have had a theatrical release.
abd00bie
abd00bie - 9/12/2024, 3:17 PM
Looks good!
Demigods
Demigods - 9/12/2024, 3:38 PM
looks to have quite a bit more suspenseful action in this than the book (which I'm not complaining about). I think it looks awesome
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 9/12/2024, 3:42 PM
Looks promising, glad it's right in time for Halloween.
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 9/12/2024, 3:48 PM
Looks good! It's a great book, I hope they do it justice
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/12/2024, 4:10 PM
At the 1:47 mark. They went ahead with one of the most godd@mn laziest tropes for a kid wearing thick-frame glasses in a movie: The obvious big-ass piece of tape holding it together. 🤓
Patient2670
Patient2670 - 9/12/2024, 9:24 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - If that's the movie's greatest sin, then we're still in good shape.
Order66
Order66 - 9/12/2024, 4:12 PM
Salems Lot to this day is my favorite Stephen King book of all time.
mountainman
mountainman - 9/12/2024, 4:48 PM
@Order66 - Good Choice. I’d put The Stand and some of the better Dark Tower books ahead of it, but it is excellent.
StSteven
StSteven - 9/12/2024, 6:21 PM
@mountainman - Can't argue with you there. I'd also put the "Bachman Books" up there as well, but that's technically Richard Bachman and not King, but, well, same writer. King makes my head hurt sometimes (like writing himself into the DT books). Pretty much Sutter Kane from "In the Mouth of Madness". Awesome stuff.
mountainman
mountainman - 9/12/2024, 9:22 PM
@StSteven - Some of his stuff from his cocaine years got a bit weird. And I do enjoy It but the orgy scene is such a major downside of that book to me.
StSteven
StSteven - 9/12/2024, 10:45 PM
@mountainman - Yeah, well, the products of his cocaine use can be debated. From what I understand he knocked out "Carrie" in like a week while being geeked and that's a great book. Now, I'm not promoting that drug use at all, but from what I understand it can cause one to have a period of considerable productivity, and I could see such being the case with King cranking out all those books.

Either way, his family did an intervention (I think it was soon after "Carrie"), he cleaned himself up, and continued to put out some amazing shit, top of all being (in my opinion "The Stand" and the "Dark Tower" series.

I actually remember about a decade ago when he announced that he was retiring for good. Since then I think he's released at least a half dozen new novels. So, go Stephen, go. Keep retiring. One of these days I'll be able to catch up. 😊
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/12/2024, 4:21 PM
Looked OK, might check it out.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 9/12/2024, 4:38 PM
Nolanite
Nolanite - 9/12/2024, 4:55 PM
Holy shit.
narrow290
narrow290 - 9/12/2024, 5:07 PM
Man, its nice to see all the positivity around this trailer! My most anticipated flick of the year! I do wish it went to theaters though
BigPhilbowski
BigPhilbowski - 9/12/2024, 6:22 PM
Just watched the 1st 2 adaptions over the last week. Can't wait for this
LSHF
LSHF - 9/12/2024, 6:51 PM
I got the book when it was first released, read a hundred pages the first day, a hundred the second day, and once it was revealed what the problem was, I could not put it down for the last two hundred pages.

I've been hoping for a proper theatrical release since then.

Oh, well.
LSHF
LSHF - 9/12/2024, 6:51 PM
Anyway, it looks good.
Tufasrox
Tufasrox - 9/12/2024, 7:02 PM
Hot. Damn. Sign me up.
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 9/12/2024, 8:16 PM
Wow. That looks solid!
relentless1
relentless1 - 9/13/2024, 12:14 AM
this looks really good! Bring on October 3rd
DemonTweeks
DemonTweeks - 9/13/2024, 2:48 AM
i must have watched a different trailer than most of you. that 100% looks like a straight to streaming movie trailer
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 9/13/2024, 8:18 AM
@DemonTweeks - I don't disagree with that sentiment but...This definitely could have made its money back in theaters if released in October. Besides Smile 2, there is no horror competition. Just a bunch of cbms peppered in here and there. With some decent marketing, it could have made some decent money instead of losing it going to streaming.
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/13/2024, 8:52 AM
Depending how many episodes how many seasons I may check it out you know messed up church is only safe place from vampires
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 9/13/2024, 11:20 AM
I 100% would have seen this in the theater. I think it looks like a great time. A lot more suspenseful looking than I would have expected and they did a great job of making the vampires actually creepy/scary looking.

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