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I was enjoying this review until you started getting all feminist. Susan died to move the story along to give a scared Ben more hate,anger and resolve to kill Barlow because he lost the woman he loved. Probably wouldn't have had the same impact if one of the guys he had just met had been bitten. Plus the scene where he killed Susan was heart breaking and taken from Dracula. All this drives the plot and taps into the readers emotions. It's nothing to do with your feminist opinions of casually sprouting kill a man there are more of them and expendable. You are a good reviewer but you need to keep your obvious political and religious views out of your videos and keep to the topic.

Good Review!!

In the movie, he is intellectually disabled. He has a low IQ. In the book, he is an autistic savant. He has areas where he is not very mart, but in other areas, he is very intelligent.

I am new fan of yours since I discovered this channel life hasn't been the same.

4 days ago I stopped your review right after you said you liked it, because I read many bad reviews but I trust your opinion, and wow, you were right! (again). I felt involved in the story as you did, I loved the vintage frame, the fabrics, the colours... and I am really, really picky about contemporary movies, but this one was good! At the end when the music starts again like she was dancing with her friend, but the context was so different... I had the goosebumps the whole scene long. Thank you for the accurate review as usual

I just found your RUclips channel because I watched this movie and I was curious to know more about it. I actually enjoyed it as well and agree pretty much with your entire review. Someone else mentioned the devil in this movie was not as scary as in Rosemarys baby. I agree that's part of the reason. The rape scene was not as frightening. It felt like a lot of CGI. But otherwise I love the performances and it was enjoyable. Thank you!

It’s a good ending tho

why did they change the spot of the cliff he falls off of? in the opening he falls off half-way up the wall. But at the end they show him falling off the top of the cliff.

I really liked this movie, as well! And you’re as pretty and sweet as ever 💗

Good insight

It’s not that unusual for an abusive parent to be selective in their abuse. Also, they had Al Steele who likely kept Joan grounded.

Christina told Larry King that the book was written from the perspective of a child, this fact is often overlooked . I have read the book and agree that the movie gives a more layered view of the dynamic between mother/daughter. Jmo

Being a nearly lifelong fan of most things SALEM'S LOT, I must say that this video is fantastic! Thank you!

Thanks for your review. 😊 I’ve seen the movie a few times and boy oh boy 😅 I never got around to reading the book. BUT both my grandniece and mother - neither were Crawford fabs as far as her movies - remembered Joan’s soap opera appearance. Both said it was like this young woman was there one day and then without missing a beat Joan Crawford - not Grand Hotel Joan but more William Castle schlocky movie Joan - appears in the same role. My grandmother tried to be nice and say she was okay. My mother - brutally honest as always - said “I think she was drunk!” 😂 And THAT was my first memory of Joan Crawford, years before I saw the movies that made her famous.

Such a Sexist mindset you have.. the Director being a man is strange? Men can't be romantic? Men don't understand romance film making? Romances are Women movies? Is that it? Such a sad mindset.

To be completely honest, regardless of the varied cultures and traditions, you generally see depicted in media only Catholic Priests (and Shinto priests + Buddhist monks if the production is from the East) doing exorcism and similar actions. It kinda sticks with people I guess. (Funnily enough, the standard answer of the CC to any request of exorcism and such is "you need a doctor bro" - it takes a lot for them to even consider the presence of the supernatural. Also, I recall my religion teacher excluding ghosts and any other undead, stating that the CC position is that the dead and the living do not interact like that and if - IF - something is found to be "supernatural" is due to the devil, or something coming from the human mind). Folklore of course doesn't care. Of note on wether I believe any of the above - I am an agnostic, but I am a man full of contradictions and religions and folklore fascinate me.

Honestly? I don’t blame Christina one bit. If I had a famous parent (especially a rich one that cut me out), I would have dragged them for filth too. Maybe that’s wicked, but oh well 🤷‍♂️ Good video! I had never gotten around to reading the book, but the movie is definitely a guilty pleasure.

Christina strikes me as insincere. I know people cope with their traumatic past in their own ways but everything she says just puts up a red flag in my head. Why is it every few years she re-releases the book with sudden new material? Why is it she goes to releases of the film and allows drag queens to chase her with wire hangers? I know real abuse. I've been truly abused. And I would never poke fun at it in that way. Something about her whole trajectory is off and I'm not buying what she's selling

My sister (3 years younger) and I always joke that our sister (11 years younger) was raised by “different parents” from us.. so, yes! True!

Damn ig I’m the only one who liked the book and movie lol

Christina isn’t perfect? What a shock! She was entitled and annoying and I guess that makes her less of a sympathetic character. Maybe she saw her mother help others with money and the fact that her mother wouldn’t give her money made her feel inferior. Maybe Joan showed love through money. So, if your mother won’t help you financially, maybe it makes you feel unloved and brings up terrible emotions. I have no idea if that is what happened, but it is possible that there is a deeper reason why she wanted financial help as a young adult. Child abuse is a one-sided crime. This is why I do NOT tell anyone about my childhood abuse. It just makes you a target of more judgment. I recommend that no one ever speak of their abuse outside of therapy. People don’t deserve to know and you don’t deserve the judgment.

Thank you

And while we're on the subject of books turned into miniseries, have you done a video on The Thornbirds? Talk about awesome 80's epicness! And by the way, to all the people who joke about Jenny being the villain in Forrest Gump, she has nothing on Meggie Cleary! She is the worst!!!! Ya know, in my humble opinion. 😌

I watched the movie, read the book and read the script. It had different themes and a different lens. In the movie he's 50 paces ahead but in the book his addiction catches up to him.

Great comparison review and commentary.

I like that she hasn't healed from her childhood abuse. I felt a soccer punch in the stomach when she was excluded from the will. There are certain elements that remind me of my mom. I liked the scene when there was a ring under something and she moved it aside acting like she had to do everything.

Loved the movie, especially after seen Rosemary’s baby

In the original, Rose moved to Mrs. Gardenia's apartment, after she passed. In this prequel, Mrs. Gardenia died after rosemary moved to the building. Too many plot holes !!!

The book and the movie both make Christina out to be the eternal victim. Most people who knew both Christina and Joan say that Christina's book (and the movie afterward) was the lowest sort of opportunistic character assassination. Many of Joan's friends who read the book and saw the movie were appalled, never speaking to Christina again...including the two twin girls who had been adopted by Joan after Christina and Chris. Christina said it wasn't about the money and the will which cut her and her brother out, but it absolutely was. Joan Crawford died with a lot of money left over from marriage to Al Steele, and Christina didn't see a dime of it, and that pissed her off. Oh, and then this: "DON'T F&%$ WITH ME FELLAS!!!!!" Man, Faye Dunaway wasn't just chewing the scenery, she was dining out on it! That's one of the greatest unhinged moments in that movie, when Joan flips out on the Pepsi board. I love that.

It's interesting to hear you say that the movie humanizes Joan cause I've heard the complete opposite. Like from what others have said, it made her out to be this inhuman monster with the no hire hangers scene, that creepy scene where she's lotioning her elbows after Christina discovers her dolls gone and how she kinda went demonic when cutting Christina's hair which from what I heard wasn't in the book and also when she had that physical brawl with Christina after Christina embarrasses her during her interview. I just find it kinda interesting how some seem to say the movie made Joan out to be worse than she was and others say the book is the one that makes her out to be worse than she was.

All I understood is it involves vampires in a town and almost everyone 😅 dies

Seeing here that you do miniseries to Book comparisons, would consider doing Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited? You could do a comparison to both the miniseries and film. Also Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. Two of my favorites, I have definite opinions and would love to know yours. Thank you for your channel.

Thanks 🙏 I loved 🥰 the movie but I heard the books very different

I was a huge fan of the book when I was a teenager. Like you, I prefer the book most, & '79 was for the most part better than the '04 version.

I agree on all points!

Really nice review and comparision. Just finished the book, watched the movie, and the book is sooo much better

Wolves of the Calla is like a spiritual sequel to 'Salem's Lot along with the short story One for the Road

See her in The Assistant. Really good.

Not read this book in so long, now I want to again. For generation X the scene with the vampire at the window is the one that is still reminisced about as the most terrifying thing our generation saw as kids, and we saw the 70s!

One of my favorite Stephen King - and vampire - novels of all time. I liked the 1979 miniseries and liked it, but have not seen the 2004 miniseries, and have zero interest in the new movie. How can you ever condense such an iconic novel into an hour and 45 minutes (the run time I saw for the movie)? Needless to say, I agree with you Laura, wholeheartedly that the book absolutely wins, here.

The Coppola version takes a ton from Dan Curtis' version of Dracula which was written by Richard Matheson.

I watched the movie a few years before reading the novel ('79 miniseries was seen at the age of 10, in 1982, book was read at age 13, in '85). Many of my friends also saw the miniseries, so it became part of our peer group shorthand, a component of our inside jokes and whatnot. As much as the miniseries scared the mess out of me, reading the novel is what made me want to be an author. 'Salem's Lot was one of the first novels I'd ever read, and I was amazed by the power King's writing had over me. I wanted that power, I wanted to be able to craft a story that ensorcelled my readers, drawing them into whatever world I wanted to bring them to. I don't know that I've managed that yet, but I keep trying.

there is a quite new tv series based on king's "jerusalem's lot" short story - chapelwaite which is pretty good, with adrian brody as the main lead it is close to h.p. lovecraft writing, doesn't have typical king's themes - drinking writer, childhood flashbacks and so on

I remember watching the 79 version on TV about 24 years ago as a kid and my dad would randomly go "BOO!" such a jerk

My dad always tells me this is the Steven King title that scared him.

Mommy Dearest walked so I'm glad my mom died could RUN!

The '79 miniseries improves on the novel.

I still feel that in spite of Polanski’s own evil deeds his artistry as a director cannot be denied. To be an actor or actress deciding to work with him even after such scandals have come to light is a personal decision by them and I can understand either decision. Same even can be said for Woody Allen I’d venture.

Thanks!