First time I saw it, it affected me so much I couldn’t sleep with the light off for a couple of nights.Believe it or not, there are still some published Stephen King novels that haven't made it to the screen, despite dozens of adaptations of the author's work over the past six decades. Overall, a very impressive, atmospheric and genuinely frightening Stephen King adaptation. Tobe Hooper’s direction ties things up very well too. David Soul is appealing and gets into his character well enough and Reggie Nalder delves into Barlow very effectively with his entrance one of Salem’s Lot best scenes, but the show belongs to James Mason who is beyond terrifying and is simply born for the role. The dialogue is also less clunky than it is in a Stephen King adaptation like TommyKnockers, and the story is coherent. The special effects are decent, the pace doesn’t hurt Salem’s Lot as much as it could have done and it is a good length. The music is also very chilling and just adds to the unnerving atmosphere of each crucial scene. It doesn’t look cheap, the sets are creepy-looking and the costumes are grandiose. The look of Salem’s Lot is suitably Gothic. The atmosphere amongst other things takes good care to do its job well, and well it does, and the build-ups are also quite suspenseful.

Salem’s Lot is not reliant on fake blood/gore and cheap special effects to make its point.

So many scenes are genuinely unnerving, because the atmosphere is so good. What makes the film work is its atmosphere. And I also think out of the made-for-TV Stephen King movies, Salem’s Lot is the best. Salem’s Lot, While I personally would put Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Misery above Salem’s Lot, I cannot deny how truly great this is.

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