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# Movie Review: ‘Salem’s Lot (1979)
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/movie-review-salems-lot-1979/
- Published: 2021-09-05T13:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:16.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

[Link to Letterboxd review: 41/2 stars](https://boxd.it/27nL1b)

The music is dated and a little overwhelming, and tags it as a television production, but other than that it’s still horrifying. [Stephen King](https://theremightbecupcakes.com/tag/stephen-king/) understands that it’s *people* that are low and dangerous and scary better than any other horror author.

Universe: The title is [“‘Salem’s Lot’”](https://amzn.to/3EfORCH) because, upon its founding, the town was named “Jerusalem’s Lot”. You can read about it in the prequel short story of the same title that begins King’s collection [Night Shift](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780307947291). The current series Chapelwaite is based upon it; I don’t have HBO so I haven’t seen it, please let me know what you think if you’re watching it.

It’s related to [the Dark Tower series](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781501163562), specifically [number 5, Wolves of the Calla](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780743251624). [Info about this via Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/stephenking/comments/p8k9g4/dark%5Ftower%5Fsalems%5Flot/).

This universe has a sequel short story as well: “One For the Road”, also in Night Shift, and there’s a [lovely version illustrated by James Hannah](https://amzn.to/3BjWB4B).

Note: I remember Bonnie Bedelia’s character from the novel as a emotionally fragile, older virgin—that’s why her father was being so protective of a grown woman, that there was that unusual dynamic of her not having dating much at all plus the whole really small town thing. Am I remembering wrong? [It’s time to reread](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780345806796), it’s been too long.

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