Salem's Lot
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 17, 1979
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Michael Hogan
    Apr 17, 2021
    90
    Its eerie atmosphere and Nosferatu-inspired special effects (all glowing contact lenses and levitating ghouls) chilled a generation. [5 July 2016]
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    Apr 17, 2021
    90
    One of those stomach-churning, white-knuckle fright films that masterfully sets us up, shakes us around and leaves us jumping at our own shadows. David Soul and James Mason star. [13 March 1988, p.2]
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  3. Paste Magazine
    Reviewed by: Max O'Connell
    Apr 17, 2021
    90
    With Salem’s Lot, Hooper captured what is great about its original artist and what was great about its adaptor: They knew too well how to make forgotten fears feel real again.
  5. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Apr 17, 2021
    80
    It changed the look of King’s lead vampire from a cultured villain to a ghoulish beast recalling Max Schreck’s makeup in “Nosferatu” (1922). [22 June 2013, p.E4]
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  6. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Donn Downey
    Apr 17, 2021
    80
    It certainly delivered its share of scares. [19 Nov 1979]
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  7. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Maria Sciullo
    Apr 17, 2021
    60
    If you're going to have a great actor play the vampire's human familiar, you could do worse than James Mason. [10 Sept 1917, p.F-7]
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