Benighted fools — haven’t they seen a single Dracula film? In contrast to the wry postmodern chiller mode in which all the characters are experts in genre tropes, everyone in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot is completely unschooled in the supernatural,

The latest Stephen King adaptation of the author's vampire novel is finally hitting cinemas - and fans have had to wait a long time.

We’re wanted back at “the Lot”, a place where everybody is hiding secrets, where the neighbours keep disappearing and where thirsty, ­undead bloodsuckers rarely use the front door. Fun times. Ask around and you’d be hard pressed to find a single viewer who didn’t come away from Tobe Hooper’s 1979 adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot with a