“The whole cast is so killer.”
There’s another one.)
Bill Camp also stars as Van Helsing-esque school teacher Matthew Burke.
Makenzie Leigh, Lewis Pullman, Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, and Jordan Preston Carter in ‘Salem’s Lot’.Justin Lubin/Courtesy of New Line Cinema/Max
“Salem’s Lotis such a special book because there’s a lot of macro sociopolitical themes in there.
It’s not just a horror book,” Pullman says.
“How Gary approached it was almost like, this is not a horror movie.
Lewis Pullman as Ben Mears in ‘Salem’s Lot’.Courtesy of New Line Cinema/Max
This is a movie about a small town in America where something horrific happens.
He was trying to also rekindle the fire of mystique about vampires.
They’ve shifted in many different ways over the last couple of decades in terms of pop culture.
Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton in ‘Salem’s Lot’.Justin Lubin/Courtesy of New Line Cinema/Max
I think Gary really wanted to return back to this very mysterious, almost mythological lens on them.”
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“I felt a lot of pressure,” he admits.
“Gary told me how much he had changed,” she says.
A vampire rises from the dead in ‘Salem’s Lot’.Justin Lubin/Courtesy of New Line Cinema/Max
To get into specifics would be to spoil the fun of how this movie unfolds.
How could I be a part of that tone?"
Dauberman’s story is set in the 1970s, the same time period as King’s original novel.
Pullman describes it as a “guttural approach.”
“It was all practical to my memory,” Leigh recalls of the effects.
“When we first met, he was like, ‘Do you know how to change your tire?’
I was like, ‘Yeah.
Do you need your tire changed?
Do you not have AAA, buddy?’
That was a really fun thing to be able to play.
How do you make this as realistic as possible?
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ThisSalem’s Lotalso feels, in some ways, like an action movie to both stars.
The final sequence, in particular, is a climactic event that plays out at a drive-in movie theater.
It’s not how King’s novel ends, but the scene allowed Pullman and Leigh learn stunts.
“My body was broken after,” Pullman remarks.
