Generations are still traumatized by King’s book and its 1979 TV adaptation. Now, a new movie is here to traumatize you, should you dare press play.

Exclusive: Salem’s Lot producer says the new movie looked to the original Nosferatu-like miniseries for its vampire design

The way in which many filmmakers have circumvented this obstacle in the past is by not adapting the books as features but instead as miniseries, and Salem’s Lot is a prime example. The novel (which is the second King had published) is not one of the writer’s longest tomes,

Lewis Pullman and Alfre Woodard star in the horror drama about an author who returns to his hometown in search of creative inspiration, only to find it under attack by a monster.

The once AWOL adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ squanders its potential by lacking any of the bite of its source material.

There's nothing about the new feature-film adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot that feels particularly fresh or novel — unless you count the fact that it has no interest in being anything other than an earnest,

Is Salem’s Lot a top-tier King adaptation? No. But not for nothing is a drive-in theater a key location in the action - this is the kind of fun midnight movie that teens flocked to in the '70s. Salem's Lot is released on Max in the US on October 3 and in UK cinemas on October 11.

Exclusive: A star of Gary Dauberman's Salem's Lot explains shares why a major character change in the Stephen King adaptation makes sense.