do you still find salem's lot scary ?

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i know i do.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was really scary when I read it in middle school.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

TOTALLY. I never stand by a window at night, to this day.

We're talking about the film, right? Books aren't scary.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, wait. The question said do you STILL find... Uh... Yes, probably. I'm a big wuss.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Books are scary when you read them alone in a dark house.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

When I read the title I thought of Eminem.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I must watch it again sometime and see what I think... although the idea is frightening me so much that I might not bother.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I only ever found one line of Salem's Lot scary: "It became unspeakable." That got my imagination going. I still think it's a well-chosen line, so I guess I find it as scary as I ever did.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of _'Salem's Lot_ was grosser than it was scary. The guy who got impaled on the stakes under the stairs is a classic example.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ew.

This reminds me that I've only ever read a few of King's short stories, and that's it. They've all been good, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, the scene originally was a graphic description of the guy being pulled apart by rats. The publisher balked, but he got back at them by publishing it in _Danse Macabre_ as an example of something ridiculously gross he had to take out of a book. I think I got to the point where a rat was tugging out the guy's tongue before I threw the book across the room. (Of course, I immediately ran over, picked it up and read it again.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The vampire in 'Salem's Lot' TVM = the vampire in 'Nosferatu' - never seen an explanation for this.

Most scary moment in the TVM - when the little boy floats up outside the window - even MORE scary in the Simpsons parody w/ Bart.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the book is wonderful, but not really scary.

I found the movie creepy when I was 11, but we watched it again a few months ago and it seemed really lame. Esp. the vampire. And *so* intolerably dated.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen the movie because of its horrible reputation, despite curiosity since Tobe Hooper did it (I would probably rent it if I ran across it). So I'm curious what The vampire in 'Salem's Lot' TVM = the vampire in 'Nosferatu' means ... the book is a deliberate retread of/homage to Dracula, Nosferatu was based on Dracula, but I don't know if you mean visually or what.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The vampire looks just like the one in the ancient Nosferatu movie. Which is really crap, because in the book he's more human and he talks and whatever. I hate what they did to him in the movie.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Well ew. (I'm more and more curious to see it now, though, cause I want to see HOW bad it is ...)

IMDB says there's a new TV one (miniseries, I assume) in the works, with Rob Lowe as Ben Mears (the writer/protagonist).

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

He has yellow eyes, blue skin and really long claws. And he hisses. Are you getting intrigued now? :)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually am, geez. My only worry is that it wouldn't be bad enough to be good, that it would just be "eh." Like, I started to watch Glitter on HBO, and was frustrated that it wasn't bad enough to be funny, it was simply mediocre.

Granted, Mariah didn't have blue skin.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Weirdly, I had no problem with this when I was 11. I read the book later. James Mason is good as his right-hand man, although physically he's also 1,000 miles off the mark.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

If Mariah had had blue skin, "Glitter" would have been the greatest movie ever.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And all my Smurfette fantasies would come true.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

That movie freaked me out something ridiculous. I will NEVER open up a coffin with a diseased-looking kid who died mysteriously in it and then turn my back EVER AGAIN

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the bit in the book where the chocolate falls out of the dead baby's mouth

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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