Lewis Pullman Faces Vampires In Stephen King Horror Adaptation

Relating to Stephen King diversifications, it actually can go one in all two methods. Typically you get a Stand By Me, The Shining, or The Shawshank Redemption; and different occasions you get a Pet Sematary (1989), a Darkish Tower, or, effectively, one other Pet Sematary (2019). And after quite a few delays and scrapped theatrical launch plans stateside, you might be forgiven for pondering that Gary Dauberman’s upcoming tackle King’s vampire traditional Salem’s Lot — already effectively tailored earlier than as a miniseries again in 1979 — is certain to be a kind of different occasions. But when the atmospheric new trailer for the IT Chapter One and Two author’s sophomore directorial effort is something to go by, then we may very well have one other King-worthy banger on our arms. Test it out beneath:

“I’ve all the time written tales about issues which might be so horrible you will run away till your mind will not bear in mind.” So says Lewis Pullman’s horror author Ben Mears over photographs of a younger boy operating by means of a darkish forest to flee a glowing-eyed creature. And because the needle drops on Gordon Lightfoot’s 70s people banger ‘Sunset’ and Mears begins asking about “something out of the abnormal” occurring within the sleepy city of Jerusalem’s Lot, a succession of more and more creepy photographs — of sheet-draped our bodies rising, bones being damaged, and *whispers* precise vampires — suggests there may be little or no abnormal afoot right here, and operating away could also be a very good shout for our man Ben.

Here is the official synopsis for the film, whose sturdy ensemble additionally boasts amongst its ranks Alfre Woodard, William Sadler, and Pilou Asbæk: “Creator Ben Mears returns to his childhood residence of Jerusalem’s Lot searching for inspiration for his subsequent e book, solely to find his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire (Sadler) and his acquainted (Asbæk).”

While Dauberman’s directorial debut, Annabelle Comes House, confirmed extra promise than it delivered satisfyingly scary end-product, the filmmaker’s work on Andy Muschietti’s IT duology — to not point out Stephen King’s personal seal of approval being stamped on this one already — give us each purpose to suspect this might be a horror present in all the appropriate methods. We’ll discover out for ourselves whether or not this one’s _fang_tastic or, er, past the pale when Salem’s Lot releases within the UK on 11 October.