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Overall Rank: 6430
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 31
Theatrical Release Date: 06/20/2004
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mikael Salomon
Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Robert Mammone, Rutger Hauer
Plot: Based on Stephen King's novel, a remake of 1979 movie. Writer Ben Mears return to Jerusalem’s lot, the sleepy little town where he grew up, to write a book about the house. The house where he as a child went through a terrible ordeal. It appears that the evil that lived in the house when he was a child has awakened and it’s spreading across the quiet small town called Salem’s lot. -- Tjommi
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Salem's lot
Tjommi - wrote on 09/03/2011
I have read the book, and I have seen the 1979 movie. And I have read all the arguments about not being true to the book and the previous movie being scarier. To me that’s irrelevant. My personal opinion is though however that the 1979 movie might have scared me when I was a child, but I didn’t see it was a child, I saw it many years after it’s release when I was a grown up. And although it got a creepy atmosphere, the special effects are well… from 1979. I might make some people angry with this, but that is not how I review movies. I do not review movies how I felt and how I would have felt. The truth of the matter is that in today’s standards the 1979 movie just isn’t good enough, and the 2004 version of the movie is.
It’s a good vampire story with a good script with …
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