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Salem's Lot is absolutley among my most wanted releases. The score is brilliant, and the TV Movie itself is one of the best King adaptions I have ever seen. I too would love to hear wether there would be any possibility of a release.
I agree. I would be first in line to buy this gem. Love Sukman's use of the Dies Irae.
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As a kid, the floating vampire at the window trick--which the likes of Danny Glick performed--left me terror scarred and brain damaged with perma-fright. The most genuinely rattling vampire saga I've ever seen. Tobe Hooper rules, and he's getting another shot at doing a King adaptation with "From a Buick 8"; looking forward to it. If he makes the car scratch at my window after dark, should be scary as hell.
Yeah, I would not go near my damn window for weeks after seeing this series. Personally, for the time, this was the scariest television mini-series ever. Unlike many films that portray vampires as sexy and romantic, Salem's Lot was more primal and evil.
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Remember: Lukas Kendall is just one man.
hah!!
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I seem to remember this question came up before and if I was less lazy I'd do a search to see what came up. What I find interesting is that Lukas is normally very good at putting us out of our misery if something just ain't gonna come any time soon. Maybe I'm reading too much into his reply - and probably am - but maybe this one is still a possible.
I love it too.
Cheers
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I wouldn´t mind an official Salems Lot CD...
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Oct 26, 2008 - 4:25 PM
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OK, I just watched this mini-series for the first time.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't like it very much. It was too dated in all departments - from music to editing to "setpieces". I was never really scared. It was almost like watching those old Frankenstein or Dracula movies, in which the time and culture gap between then and now remove any last remnants of "scariness" and you become so detached that you're watching it mostly for curiousity's sake.
Granted, a select few scenes had a mild sense of creepiness about them: the window/floating thing, a few scenes in which the filmmakers delayed katharsis - such as the guy jumping into the grave or the coroner scene, ONE "stinger" effect (when the jealous ex jumps on the author). Things like that. It was there that I SENSED King's usual style (which I love) and that the source material would probably appeal to me.
Sukman's melodramatic score wasn't that different from other dissonant horror music at the time (in that atonal jazz vein that Fielding was so famous for), but it was really a little too much of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
Sukman is always AHEAD of the action, telling us that something scary is about to happen. That undermines some of the effect. There was too much music when there really shouldn't be any....heck, he even MICKEY-MOUSED Susan's father towards the end, when he walks up the stairs in the mansion!
Again, it's the convention of the time, I'm sure, but that doesn't make it any more effective to me.
From reading this thread, it seems to me that it's probably an advantage to have grown up with this film and seen it as a kid. I can certainly see how some of the scenes can be traumatic for a 10-year-old. But to me - despite growing increasingly receptive to horror films over the years - it didn't have much of an effect at all. Sorry to say.
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), I was wondering if FSM considers releasing at last Harry Sukman's 1979 classic, Herrmannesque TV score for what remains IMHO the finest of Stephen King big-or-small screen adaptations? There was a thread here a couple of years ago asking us what we'd like on CD from the Warner catalogue: quite a few of us at the time were in favor of this one, and I don't recall back then any reply from our Mr. K. quickly dismissing it or throwing it in what I name the "red-tape bin", so naturally I assumed it was feasible. This coming Halloween reminds me once more how perfect such a desired album would have been in terms of timing. Another missed opportunity, or we just have to wait?
