But what makes SALEM’S LOT kind of special is how well the Lives- than Hooper, whose specialty is usually grueling, way-over-the-top Which is to say, it has a lot more Stephen King -with hisĪffection for quirky small town characters and the colorful minutiae of their The scenario, which finally bloom into some ferocious horror only very late in It’s a leisurely (183 minutes across two “episodes!”) small-townĮnsemble TV movie which patiently takes its time establishing the charactersĪnd the town before even more patiently working little threads of dread into Of course, the Mick Garris adaptation of that one is crap, so yeah, there areĭefinitely some unambiguous lows to go along with the giddy highs.Īssociate with either of those two horror grandmasters, however, is quietĬompetence, and that turns out to be mostly (but not entirely) what SALEM’S LOT (GHOSTS) and writing my personal favorite of all his novels ( Bag of Bones). Instead ofĭoing that, King spent the next decade collaborating with Michael Jackson Then blow my head off, determined to go out at the top of my game. If I had done that, I’d put that shit on my fucking tombstone and The only movie in history with a full score by AC/DC. Besides, sometimes they’re even great when they suck! Stephen King directed MASSACRE forgives a hell of a lot of SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTIONs. Their hits, when they come, sometimes rank among the horror genre’s greatestĪchievements, they’ve earned quite a bit of leeway. If we’re being perfectly honest, in fact, they both haveĪ lot more misses than hits on their respective resumes, but considering that Even if neither of those men exactly has a, uh, Pedigree alone - a Tobe Hooper adaptation of a Stephen King novel- would be Always talked this one up, and it definitely has a lot going for it.
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