Salem’s Lot First Look Revealed

New Line Cinema’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestselling novel Salem’s Lot will debut this October on Max. The Max Original film Salem’s Lot reunites the producing teams behind the record-breaking horror franchises The Conjuring Universe and the It films.

Gary Dauberman writes, directs, and executive produces the film. The producers are James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster, Roy Lee for Vertigo, and Mark Wolper.

In Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover that a bloodthirsty vampire is preying upon his hometown.

The cast includes Lewis Pullman (Ben Mears), Alfre Woodard (Dr. Cody), Makenzie Leigh (Susan Norton), Bill Camp (Matthew Burke), Spencer Treat Clark (Mike Ryerson), Pilou Asbæk (Straker), and John Benjamin Hickey (Father Callahan).

The Stephen King novel is officially described as follows: “Salem’s Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in Salem’s Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to Salem’s Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror.

“A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.

“All would be changed forever–Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of Salem’s Lot.

“This is a rare novel, almost hypnotic in its unyielding suspense, which builds to a climax of classic terror. You will not forget the town of Salem’s Lot nor any of the people who used to live there.”