Stephen King’s iconic 1975 foray into vampire lore received a makeover with 2024’s ‘Salem’s Lot, as did the narrative’s main antagonist, the purely evil vampire Kurt Barlow. The original novel is widely considered to be one of King’s scariest stories, and it has acted as a foundational building block for the rest of his interconnected literary universe. Barlow is played by Alexander Ward in ‘Salem’s Lot, and his incarnation sticks closely to the version seen in Tobe Hooper’s 1979 miniseries.
