The First Trailer for Salem’s Lot Offers Classic Stephen King Small-Town Terror

Sky-high marks are successful bid for the usage of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown” successful the caller trailer for Gary Dauberman’s Salem’s Lot, a folksy tune that hails from the soft-focus, mid-1970s epoch the movie is intelligibly aiming to capture, and offers lyrics that acceptable perfectly into the discourse of a vampire tale: “Sundown, you amended instrumentality care, if I find you’ve been creeping ’round my backmost stairs…” The long-awaited Stephen King adaptation has a premiere day to bash with this caller trailer, too: October 3 on Max.

Here’s the appropriately eerie trailer:

While the authoritative logline volition beryllium acquainted to fans of the publication arsenic good arsenic its 2 erstwhile adaptations (both two-part miniseries)—”Author Ben Mears returns to his puerility location of Jerusalem’s Lot successful hunt of inspiration for his adjacent publication lone to observe his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire”—you tin besides archer that Dauberman has taken immoderate liberties to enactment his ain stamp connected the material. The drive-in theatre is new, but it’s an summation that makes consciousness fixed the blend of nostalgia and dread astatine play here: drive-ins are lone unfastened astatine night, making them perfect turf for recently turned vampires connected the prowl.

But everything you privation to spot is inactive there: a quaint tiny municipality with a unspeakable secret, a writer returning aft immoderate years and sparking with a section gal, a mysterious antheral hanging an “opening soon” motion for his antiques shop, and a hulking aged mansion sitting unsocial connected a hill. Oh, and those acquainted Salem’s Lot frights are looking extra chilling, including the vampire lurking extracurricular a model begging to beryllium fto in… and a corpse that has nary concern sitting up and talking doing precisely that. For that fine-tuned freakiness, you tin convey Dauberman’s fearfulness background, which includes penning oregon co-writing films successful the Conjuring beingness (including the Annabelle films) and both It movies.

The cast, each of whom you tin spot successful this trailer, includes Lewis Pullman arsenic writer Ben Mears, Alfre Woodard arsenic Dr. Cody, Makenzie Leigh arsenic Susan Norton, Bill Camp arsenic teacher Matthew Burke, Spencer Treat Clark arsenic gravedigger Mike Ryerson, Pilou Asbæk arsenic adjacent vampire subordinate Straker, Jordan Preston Carter arsenic young fearfulness instrumentality Mark Petrie, and John Benjamin Hickey arsenic Father Callahan. Dauberman wrote, directed, and enforcement produced; among the different producers is different feline who knows a happening oregon 2 astir scaring the pants disconnected audiences: James Wan.

Salem’s Lot arrives October 3 connected Max.

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