Cody and Susan Norton’s father – to create Dr. As a kind of shortcut, the original adaptation combined characters from the novel – namely Dr. As originally written, Barlow appears to look like a fairly normal human with red eyes and sharp fangs, and that’s how he is played by Rutger Hauer.Īnother character “repaired” following alterations in the 1979 miniseries is Dr.

Speaking of Kurt Barlow, the presentation of the king vampire in the 2004 miniseries is a much better representation of what Stephen King put on the page compared to Tobe Hooper’s – who brought the character to life as an homage to F. The original keeps a narrow focus on the principal vampire hunters and their respective arcs, but Mikael Salomon’s version makes a specific point to unearth the darkness sleeping under the calm, small town aesthetic – and thus makes time to include horrifying sequences like hateful bus driver Charlie Rhodes (Andy Anderson) being devoured by a pack of blood-sucking children and the dimwitted Dud Rogers (Brendan Cowell) being seduced by Kurt Barlow (Rutger Hauer) at the town dump. The most wide-sweeping of these is the remake’s more significant attempt at capturing the energy of Jerusalem’s Lot as a whole town experiencing a slow infestation.

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