Motion Picture Association ha assegnato il rating “Vietato ai minori” (per "violenza e linguaggio inappropriato) all'horror Salem nights (aka Salem's Lot), the new film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name.
Produced by James Wan (Malignant) together with his Atomic Monster, Salem nights features Gary Dauberman, director of Annabelle 3 (2019) and screenwriter of Annabelle, The Nun: The Calling of Evil, It and It: Chapter Two.
Initially set for September 9, 2022, the release date has been pushed back to a date to be determined.
The cast includes Jordan Preston Carter (The Violent Heart), Nicholas Crovetti (Witch Hunt) and Cade Woodward (A Quite Place) who play Mark Petrie, Danny and brother Ralphie Glick, respectively. The latter, we recall, is one of the first kids turned into a vampire by Barlow.
Lewis Pullman (The Strangers: Prey at Night), on the other hand, is Ben Mears, the writer who reaches the small town Salem's Lot, Maine, to focus on his new novel. The place, however, is inhabited by a community of vampires, and the writer will try to convince a group of people to fight the dangerous beings.
In the cast of Salem nights there are also Makenzie Leigh (James White), Bill Camp (Joker - 2019), Spencer Treat Clark (Glass), William Sadler (The Mist), Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey and Pilou Asbæk.
Gary Dauberman also appears in the project as screenwriter and executive producer.
Published in 1975, Salem's Lot (The Nights of Salem) is Stephen King's second novel. The work was later adapted in 1979 for Tobe Hooper's two-part TV miniseries. Subsequently, the film The Vampires of Salem's Lot (1987) by Larry Cohen and Salem's Lot (2004), another television miniseries directed by Mikael Salomon.
