Salem’s Lot rises after years in the dark, a vampire tale with no heart and no stakes.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 25, 2024

By no means the disaster many might have expected following its years-long delay. You’ll like it. Not a lot, but you’ll like it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2024

No underlying meaning, no knotty themes to unpick. For audiences who have come to expect a little more intellectual bite from their vampire flicks, this is pallid, bloodless stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2024

This version is assembled, seemingly in the dark, by the horror journeyman Gary Dauberman, who bypasses the basic tenets of narrative storytelling for lurchy time jumps and distracting formal tics such as match cuts. Yes, match cuts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2024

Until you reach the clever drive-in climax, you won’t be surprised by much — but you won’t too be bored, either. You indeed may find it — as per Mr King — quite good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2024

This adaptation has zero new ideas or even a particularly frightening take on the old story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2024

While it might not be the best adaptation of one of King’s most loved novels, Salem’s Lot is a solid horror flick that manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of the genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2024

It's not embarrassing... it's just fine.

| Oct 11, 2024

At best, this Salem milks a couple of set-pieces for crowd-pleasing kicks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2024

You can almost see the scissor marks on some scenes that a producer decided could be tighter. This thing has been cut so many times that it bled to death.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2024

What if an outbreak of vampirism struck your community? A tepid new feature version returns to that question a half-century later, offering flashes of style and a more satisfying finale in an otherwise weak take on its dated source material.

| Oct 3, 2024

Too often, though, it's listless and overloaded with bloodless characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2024

Salem’s Lot in this new incarnation resorts to being funny when it oughtn’t, gruesome when it isn’t required, and there is an awkward sense of not knowing quite where to run along the rocky shores of Maine.

| Oct 2, 2024

A competently made yet hugely uninvolving retread that never once finds a way to explain why this particular novel needed a third adaptation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2024

A reasonably faithful and effective thriller, light on legitimate frights but polished and unnerving.

| Oct 1, 2024

If this sounds like a superfan complaining that a remake didn’t live up to what he was hoping for, that’s because it is. But it’s also a movie critic complaining that even if you’ve never heard of “Salem’s Lot,” it comes up short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2024

It’s an adaptation that feels heavily tampered with, gutting all story and character development in favor of empty vampire scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2024

The action sequences feature thrilling moments — some more intentionally funny than others — that make Salem's Lot perfect to watch with a crowd.

| Sep 27, 2024

A popcorn-spilling, shriek-inducing, tricky little treat.

| Sep 26, 2024