Salem's Lot - Salem has to burn
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Salem's Lot - Salem has to burn |
| Original title | Salem's Lot |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | approx. 174 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mikael Salomon |
| script | Peter Filardi |
| production |
Jeffrey M. Hayes , Brett Popplewell , Mark Wolper |
| music |
Patrick Cassidy , Lisa Gerrard , Christopher Gordon |
| camera | Ben Nott |
| cut | Robert A. Ferretti |
| occupation | |
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Salem's Lot - burning must Salem (orig. Salem's Lot ) is an American horror film from 2004, which on the novel by Stephen King based from 1975. Directed by Mikael Salomon and starred by Rob Lowe . It is the second film adaptation of the novel, the first was also filmed as Salem's Lot in 1979 (German title: Brennen muss Salem ). The film was shown as a miniseries on American television.
action
After many years, the writer Ben Mears returns to his hometown “Jerusalem's Lot” - or “Salem's Lot” for short - to write a new book here. He wants to move into the old Marsten house, which stands on a hill and which you can see wherever you are in the city, and in which Ben had a traumatic experience as a child.
But as soon as he arrives in town, Mears learns that someone has gotten ahead of him. The dubious Richard Straker bought it as a retirement home for himself and his mysterious business partner Kurt Barlow, whom no one has yet seen. The two are apparently harmless antique dealers. Straker opens a store in town while Barlow himself is reportedly on a shopping trip to Europe.
Soon, however, eerie things begin to take their course: a dog is found slashed to the cemetery gate, a little boy disappears without a trace and his brother finally dies of anemia. Vampirism is spreading in Salem's Lot.
Now a race against time begins. Together with his girlfriend Susan, his former teacher Matt Burke, the doctor Dr. Cody, 12-year-old Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, Ben Mears sets out to find the source of evil. All traces lead to the Marsten House, which towers over the city like an evil idol .
They manage to eliminate Straker and destroy several vampires, but they also have to accept heavy losses. Kurt Barlow, the master vampire, kills Mark's mother and forces Father Callahan to drink his tainted vampire blood, making him his new servant. Barlow also turns Susan into a vampire, and Dr. Cody falls victim to an insidious trap.
Despite everything, Mears manages to drive a stake through the heart of the head vampire, which then dissolves and is finally destroyed. After he also had to kill Susan, he sets the city on fire and, together with young Mark, finally leaves Salem's Lot.
criticism
“(TV) film adaptation of Stephen King's novel that strives for atmospheric density, modifying the vampire myth without gaining new facets from it. Solidly staged, the film draws on its considerable cast. "
Nominations & Awards
Nominations
- The film received two nominations for the Australian Screen Music Award in 2004 .
- The soundtrack was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2005.
- Dan Byrd was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2005.
- Samantha Mathis and the film for best TV film were nominated for the Saturn Award in 2005.
- Cinematographer Ben Nott was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 2005.
Awards
- Cinematographer Ben Nott won the 2006 Australian Cinematographers Society Award
Differences between book and film
- The book is set in 1975, the film in 2004.
- The story of the Marsten House is told differently in the film than in the book, that is, the young Ben Mears witnesses how Hubert Marsten's hanging ghost comes to life, and the connection between Marsten and Kurt Barlow is hinted more directly here.
- Richard "Throckett" Straker is called Richard "Thomas" Straker in the film, has a long beard and white hair, which at first glance gives him a friendly, avaricious appearance. In the book, he does not have a beard and is completely bald, he is described as tall and slim, with unusually long fingers and very deep-set eyes like Nosferatu .
- Mark Petrie is a shy boy in the book, while he is portrayed as cheeky and daring in the film.
- The fate of Susan Norton is portrayed differently in the film than in the book: Ben Mears spares her for the time being, in the hope that she will become human again through Kurt Barlow's destruction.
- Kurt Barlow forces Father Callahan to drink of his blood, in the book this means that as an "unclean" he is no longer allowed to enter a church, he leaves the city and with it history. In the film, however, the vampire blood causes a change in character, Callahan becomes angry and takes the place of the now killed Straker.
- Matt Burke is portrayed as an African American in the film , he is also killed by Father Callahan in the film, but in the book he dies of heart failure.
- Ben Mears dies at the end of the film while surviving in the book.
References to other works by Stephen King
- In a bar, a man sings Ben E. King's Stand by me on a karaoke machine . This song is part of the soundtrack of the Stephen King film version Stand by Me .
- During the search for the boy who disappeared in the forest, shortly after Sheriff Gillespie had spoken to Mark Petrie, a man can be seen throwing a stone at his barking dog and shouting: "Shut up, Cujo!" , A reference to Stephen King's novel Cujo from 1981.
- The figure of Father Callahan also appears in Stephen King's The Dark Tower .
- The sick boy's name is Danny, like the child in Stephen King's novel Shining and its film adaptations.
Web links
- Salem's Lot - burning must Salem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Salem's Lot - burning must Salem at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salem's Lot - Salem has to burn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .