Salem's Lot (2004)
  • Network: TNT
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 20, 2004
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17

Critic Reviews

  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Bianculli
    May 14, 2021
    37
    It's got a creepy moment or two, and fleeting glimpses of solid performances from supporting players James Cromwell and Andre Braugher, but most of it just plods along. [18 June 2004, p.150]
    All this critic's reviews
  2. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Reviewed by: Susan Banks
    May 14, 2021
    30
    According to folklore, vampires can't enter your domain unless you invite them in. By the middle of the new four-hour version of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot," , I was ready to invite them in -- in hopes they could end my suffering.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    May 14, 2021
    25
    Terrible...The first five minutes of Salem's Lot are great. Well, four minutes. And then Lowe's voice-over kicks in, which essentially starts the poison drip. It's a lot of King-speak, which is annoying and so formulaic it ought to be patented (and might be). There's a line about "dull, mindless, moronic evil," which is pretty much a perfect synopsis of the movie.