[NRx]

Saw the 79 version as a kid when it first broadcast. Scared the bleep out of me. A few weeks after I woke up in the middle of the night to the distinct sound of tapping and scratching on my 2nd floor bedroom window right over my bed. I am pretty sure I levitated out of my bed. Turned out it was just an old tree in the back yard. The wind had picked up and a branch was tapping on my window, like it probably had a hundred times before. If I had the money, I'd have given a thousand bucks for the right to cut down that tree the next day.

[JonPreston]

[mass55th]

Read the book first, which was a real attention getter. Then watched the original mini-series with David Soul as Ben Mears, and James Mason as Richard K. Straker.
Watched the remake (2004) with Rob Lowe, but it wasn’t as good as the first series. They’re remaking “The Stand” as well.

[OpusatFR]

Back to vampires und zombies, witches and wizards have run the course.

What next? Werewolves, of course. And from there, more politically correct apocalyptic sagas And aliens.

So long as TPTB are terrified of doing something differently the same ho-hum boring predictable plot lines continue.

The producers’ answer to it is more cowbell.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Lol you must be around the same age as me. Me and my brother saw that in 79 (he’s 2 years younger than me) and whoa, I remember that clear as a bell to this day, the vampire kid floating outside the window, it scared the hell out of us and we were watching it in the dark or the first time we saw the master vampire with the huge long fang lol lol Thatl starred Lance Kerwin and David Soul, that will always be the top vampire movie. Oh or how about the one scene, the vampire upstairs sitting in the rocking chair!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Progressive whore King will not see a dime from me.

[RedMonqey]

Gotta give King props, his vampires were old school. They were evil incarnate and they looked like corpses and stunk of the grave.

Old school.

Not glam, twenty something sous bois who are “misunderstood” who have skin condition and allergic to sunlight.

Unless the R movie screws it up, I might go with my brother whom we sometimes venture to the movies together.

[dhs12345]

A retread .... “the quest for more money.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgRFQJCHcPw

[RedMonqey]

Andy Muschiettie’s IT and IT: Chapter Two

Didn't care for for the big screen "It". having a R rating and kids cussing like they were in "Deadwood"series ruined the atmosphere of childhood innocence threatened by an unspeakable evil.

Halfway though the movie I was cheering for Pennywise to murder the joker kid.

The TV series was much better, IMHO.

[Drew68]

Saw the 79 version as a kid when it first broadcast. Scared the bleep out of me. A few weeks after I woke up in the middle of the night to the distinct sound of tapping and scratching on my 2nd floor bedroom window right over my bed.

Same here. I was a kid as well and had never been more scared in my life. For weeks afterwards I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare out my window from bed waiting for the vampires to arrive.

Salem's Lot traumatized a generation of Gen-X children.

[TheStickman]

If they actually follow the book it will be an incredible show, IMO.

[upchuck]

I missed the 1979 TV version. But I just added it to my Netflix queue. Looking forward to the new version.