![]() ![]() When she’s turned into a vampire, she not only has to figure out how to integrate drinking blood into her daily routine but also what that means for her loveless marriage. The film attempts to distinguish itself from King’s masterful early novel (and Tobe Hooper’s well-regarded miniseries adaptation) by focusing on the plight of a bored housewife, Anne Fedder (scream queen Barbara Crampton), who’s afraid to articulate how bored she is in her 30-year marriage to her pastor husband Jakob (the actor and filmmaker Larry Fessenden). ![]() The new horror–comedy Jakob’s Wife has a similar plot, with another wizened yet powerful vampire taking over a dying mill town one person at a time, though this one doesn’t appear to be located in Maine. In Stephen King’s early novel ‘Salem’s Lot, an ancient vampire moves into a dying town in Maine and begins to infect the residents one by one, until only a handful are still able to reject his evil.
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