Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.2 |
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About
"Small-town dread that curdles into vampire nightmare"
A writer returns to his small New England hometown to research an old, sinister house, only to find the town quietly succumbing to something ancient and hungry. This TV miniseries, directed by Tobe Hooper from Stephen King's novel, trades jump scares for slow dread, building an atmosphere of small-town paranoia before its vampire menace fully reveals itself. The pace is deliberate, almost stately, and the visuals lean on shadow and suggestion rather than gore. It rewards patience with a handful of genuinely unsettling images that have stuck with horror fans for decades.
the slow-building small-town dread and a couple of genuinely iconic, nightmare-inducing images.
you want fast pacing or modern horror scares rather than slow, atmospheric dread.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Part 1 | 7.1 | 405 | 120 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Part 2 | 7.2 | 385 | 120 min |