Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.5
Audio		3.5
Extras		1.5
Overall		3.5

Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie Review

Warner Brothers and Best Buy have collaborated on a store exclusive SteelBook release for Director Tobe Hooper's 1975 Stephen King adaptation 'Salem's Lot.' The disc is identical to that found in the wide release. This is the first of two 'Salem's Lot' SteelBooks released in consecutive years. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.

Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Note that the inner print image could be construed as a major spoiler for the film.

Warner Brothers' Salem's Lot SteelBook is of a matte finish. It's lightly textured and will not show basic handling fingerprints. The design is simple and elegant. The front panel simply features the vampire Barlow, fangs out, eyes glowing, facing forward, hands outstretched to the side and above his head. He is clad in a black robe. His gray face and long-nailed fingers are the only undead flesh visible. He fills much of the frame; an ominous gray sky appears behind him. The film's title in blood red lettering appears center atop his garment. The rear panel features a similarly bleak design cue. A dark gray sky settles above an eerie exterior shot of the Marsten house, the vampire's home in Jerusalem's Lot and a key locale in the story. The spine features the film's title in white slightly above center. A Blu-ray logo has been placed at the top and a Warner Brothers logo at the bottom.

Inside, the single Blu-ray disc sits on its own right-hand-side hub. The inner print is a two-panel spread which is, again, bleak and gray depicting the Vampire Barlow lying in his coffin, eyes wide open, fangs showing, hands shielding him from a stake to the heart; the hand delivering the killing blow can be seen at the top. On the bottom left is a white billing block.

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Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is a nice SteelBook: dark, brooding, bleak, and a focus on the evil in the movie. It's simple, it looks good, it feels good in the hand, and it's well worthy of any film library and SteelBook collection. Highly recommended.