If you can remember Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, you may envision a wise-cracking alley cat whose sass vastly outweighs his scare factor. But the new iteration of Sabrina’s familiar is a bit, well, more haunting than before.
In a new clip from Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, we’re introduced a darker, more sinister version of Salem, complete with echoey, exhasperated line delivery and a slender, demon-like form.
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Although he does transform into a “pretty kitty”, said kitty doesn’t actually talk, deviating from the 90s TV show once more.
This will probably piss off a few fans of that era, but judging by the YouTube clip’s 3300-to-40 like-to-dislike ratio, it seems not too many people are fussed.
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The show sits the streaming network in South Africa on 26 October 2018.
Feature image: screenshot, Netflix
