I won’t. Barlow enters off-camera and I don’t believe it’s ever explained how, but the simplest explanation is that Henry Petrie invited him in some time between the lights going out and Callahan arriving at the house. He may also have been able to get in because Mark had already invited Danny Glick.
I was under the impression that the rule of being invited didn’t apply, because Mark had killed Stryker. Which is also why Barlow killed Mark’s mom instead of biting her.
Why were some of the vamps walking like zombies while others were able to scamper around?
And the other female vampires didn’t get a kicky new hairdo.
I missed the show last weekend. It’s a shame really, because if they had only advertised it in every TNT commercial break since April and not every other commercial break, I might have remembered to watch it.
I feel so disillusioned. This once in a lifetime TV event most certainly won’t be replayed every weekend for the next year.
Well, neither my wife nor I have read the book in at least eight years, we remembered so little we liked it.
Maybe y’all set your sights too high when these sort of cliche things come out. I mean, the book wasn’t even very good. From what I recall, it was like King simply rewrote Dracula to his own liking - little boy included.
Liked it better than the David Soul version, it looked scarier, but they changed it too much and for no reason. I especially liked they way the vampires crawled out of the sewers.
I think we kind of take it for granted now, but King was one of if not the first, to make vampires “ordinary” as opposed to Count Draculish. Salem’s Lot was written well before he jumped the shark, but all of his movies lately - even remakes, seem to be very post shark.
Never read the book (don’t like King’s pages and pages of exposition so much), but liked the miniseries. I thought it was great fun.
What the hell?
I finally found my tape and watched the second half today…why can’t directors end movies the way the books end!!! The Shining mini series- which I do like- didn’t end the way the book did, neither of the last two Harry Potter movies ended the way the books did, someone smoked a lot of crack so this movie didn’t end anything like the book whatsoever…
I’ve got to say, though, anyone who saw this without reading the book and then goes on to read Wolves of the Calla is going to be pretty damned confused.
Never having seen the orginal mini-series, I think I’ll avoid it always if this one is in any way considered an improvement over it.
The original full-length miniseries wasn’t that bad. Most complaints I’ve seen have been the characterization of Barlow as the Nosferatu type. What I remember from the book is that this wasn’t too far off – when he appeared in the Petrie kitchen, he was pretty scary lookin’.
Maybe the original is starting to look better in comparison to the new one, or to the shortened version of the original. But really, if you liked the book, you’d probably like the original.
I watched this all at once on the Sunday showing. Did they cut out stuff? There was no mention of how the protagonist and priest ended up in the hospital.
I read the book a few months ago, and watched the movie like a week or so ago. I thought it was pretty good, but I never got to see the first one. I’m planning on seeing the orginal soon. I think Stephen King movies are pretty alright if you haven’t read the book, or forgot the book plot. Still, I have only seen a few. I didn’t like the ending though.
I thought it was ok. It was certainly Rob Lowes’s best King miniseries since The Stand.
I think one problem is that I’m kind of used to seeing the more modern Blade/Underworld/Dracula 2000 modern vampires who wear Armani leather and carry Belgian machineguns with silver-tipped armor piercing HE ammo. The classic “can’t enter until you invite me”, cross and garlic fearin’ vampires seem a little hokie. I half expected to see Rutger Huerer break out his “Lothos” cape from the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.
Then again, I suppose a black-lether clad vampire would be as out of place in Jerkwater, ME as a black-leather-clad human.