Review – Salem’s Lot (2004)

Though this isn’t the worst vampire show I’ve ever seen, there isn’t much here to suggest why the miniseries from the 1970s needed to be remade. One of the best examples of the superfluity of the newer series is the casting of Rutger Hauer as Barlow, the chief vampire. He does an okay job in the role. The problem is that Barlow was considerably scarier in the first one, the voiceless nosferatu much more sinister than an old B-list actor could ever hope to be. And the whole production is sort of like that. It has some moments, such as the school bus full of vampire kids. But the brief scares don’t justify the overall effort. Mildly amusing