Chapelwaite': An exquisite 'Salem's Lot' prequel miniseries on HBO Max that brings back pure gothic horror with 'Alucine' flavor

 ' Chapelwaite ', the exquisite prequel miniseries of ' The Salem's Lot ' with Adrien Brody, has been released by surprise on HBO Max. A tremendous free buffet for lovers of old-school gothic cinema with creatures of the night that goes from psychological to cosmic horror with the same art director of ' El faro ' (2019) giving the set an impeccable setting in which a budget adjusted it looks like good vintage cinema.


The series takes Stephen King's Lovecratian story 'The mysteries of the worm' (Jerusalem's Lot) as a starting point to create an epic story of 10 episodes that unfolds in three well-differentiated acts, even in tone, and that they gradually introduce into the story. different antagonists, which even carry elements of folk horror. His look at genre cinema is approached from the vocation of timeless terror, resulting almost anachronistic, away from trends in his patient approach to Gothic.



The Salem's Lot multiverse


A rare television ad for lovers of the 1960s classics that patiently focuses on atmosphere and the grammar of vintage cinema from another era. 'Chapelwaite' is the fifth fiction related to the novel 'The Mystery of Salem's Lot', after the two official adaptations , and the apocryphal sequels ' Return to Salem's Lot' (1987) and season 2 of ' Castle Rock ' (2019) , with which it has some point in common in relation to the cults around the town that gives a certain coherence to the Marsten universe.


In addition, Peter Filardi, screenwriter of the mythical ' Young and Witches ' (The Craft, 1996) is here the showrunner with his brother Jason, completing his vision of King's work after writing the highly vindicable 'Salem's Lot' (2004) , although on this occasion the finish is older than usual in the adaptations of the Maine writer, recalling in its appearance a series of marine terrors at the time of adventurers such as ' The Terror ' (2018), in which the protagonist This whaler, Charles Boone, could have been part of the crew.



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