I wanted to mention Kenneth McMillan's excellent performance. He was a truly great actor. He has a scene in Salem's Lot opposite the legendary--and no doubt intimidating--James Mason. The two actors do a tremendous job. McMillan, playing the town constable, warily stalks Mason's vampire caretaker in a scene with delicious question-and-answer banter that has an underlying tension to it...it's the best (non-horror) bit in the entire movie.
Yep. Still a great scene. Mason and McMillan and their "polite" contempt for one another should put a grin on every unpreposessing FSMer's face.
Interestingly, I enjoy King as a writer, though I certainly don't enjoy all the movies based on his books. For one, I think he is a particularly good short story writer (I love reading short stories), so some of his best work is less known simply because it is overshadowed by his more famous novels. And then, Stephen King is one of the best authors when it comes to tell stories from a children's point of view. I have by no means read all or most of Kings novels (and I have not read Salem's Lot), but among the novels by him that I like the most are coincidentally IT (where the second chapter is currently in theaters), which I read years ago when it came out and I was still a teen. Have not read it since, though.
Ten-fold too Texas.. but be honest even with the actors it was "a tame-tv-script" that could of been tweaked too finer details! Nosferatu was very-cool looking but little use within the series was weak as weak as the vampires seen not enuff chemistry, Sukmans effort had fine colours I love it, which is nice eeriness & paces this was especially important for scenes that would suddenly end in mystery or suspense.
The scene in which Ben Mears (David "Heart Full of" Soul) first meets Susan Norton (Bonnie Bedilia) looks choppy as he's walking over to her. I wonder what was cut. It's an important scene--or endeavors to be--as it establishes their relationship, but the choppy nature of the scene takes me out of it.
