http://80sfear.com/blog/salems-lot-part-4-miniseries-2004/ 80sfear.com - gore, horror and sleaze from the 80s Sun, 13 May 2012 14:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://80sfear.com/blog/salems-lot-part-4-miniseries-2004/comment-page-1/#comment-101857 2004 Salem’s Lot Mini-Series | Stephen King Movies Sun, 13 May 2012 14:26:18 +0000 http://80sfear.com/blog/?p=145#comment-101857 [...] The review at 80′s fear notes: “The smaller touches often work the best, such as Petrie’s models now including Cenobites instead of the standard Universal monsters or the subtle way the abuse committed by the young mother against her baby is handled. Donald Sutherland is great as Straker, Dan Byrd is good as Mark Petrie, while Rutger Hauer and Andre Braugher give great performances in slightly underwritten roles that keep them offscreen too long. The Marsten house also appears a much more menacing structure, looming over the town, while 90% of the second half gets things right and manage to stay fairly close to the novel (at least until the stupid character change in Callahan, especially stupid given the character’s tales of the events following Salem’s Lot in the same year’s novel Wolves Of The Calla), the fifth of the Dark Towerseries.” (HERE) [...] [...] The review at 80′s fear notes: “The smaller touches often work the best, such as Petrie’s models now including Cenobites instead of the standard Universal monsters or the subtle way the abuse committed by the young mother against her baby is handled. Donald Sutherland is great as Straker, Dan Byrd is good as Mark Petrie, while Rutger Hauer and Andre Braugher give great performances in slightly underwritten roles that keep them offscreen too long. The Marsten house also appears a much more menacing structure, looming over the town, while 90% of the second half gets things right and manage to stay fairly close to the novel (at least until the stupid character change in Callahan, especially stupid given the character’s tales of the events following Salem’s Lot in the same year’s novel Wolves Of The Calla), the fifth of the Dark Towerseries.” (HERE) [...]

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