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Storm of the Century

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Storm of the Century

Timothy Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko, Jeffrey DeMunn

"Give me what I want and I'll go away," demands the black-eyed, stocking-capped stranger Linoge (Colm Feore), who appears in a quiet island community on the verge of the worst storm in decades and bru...( read more  read more... )tally bludgeons an old lady to death. Tim Daly, the town sheriff and voice of reason and moral strength, locks up the quiet madman, but the deaths pile up as Linoge acts them out from his cell like a murderous mime pulling psychic strings. Stephen King, whose original teleplay is his best work for the screen since The Stand, transforms the sleepy burg into a Peyton Place of guilty secrets and criminal activity ripped from under a blanket of small town normality while the white-out of the snowstorm completely cuts them off from civilization. Director Craig R. Baxley nicely maintains an icy tension while the waiting game goes on, perhaps a little too long, before Linoge finally reveals "what he wants" and the drama turns into a struggle for man's soul in miniature. The more ambitious special effects and set pieces sometimes disappoint but are more than made up for in King's knack for turning the mundane into the macabre (the children's song "I'm a Little Teapot" has never sounded more sinister) and a few brilliantly realized sequences, the best of which occurs when townspeople are literally yanked out of existence while watching the storm. Storm of the Century is one of the most successful translations of King's brand of horror to the screen. --Sean Axmaker

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  • LitelBluHli
    March 11, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    Hell yeah! Awesome to watch in the middle of a rain storm. =)
  • armybratgeo
    October 3, 2007
    armybratgeo
    this is my fav King made for TV out of all of them. Oh my gosh what awesome plot and what the heck would you do? I totally enjoyed all the twist and turns and I thought the cast was brilliant
  • nuheart
    April 20, 2007
    nuheart
    Craig R. Baxley seems to have taken up the mantle previously held by Mick Garris -- that of lame-ass director for Stephen King TV adaptations.
  • PC79
    October 27, 2006
    PC79
    Makes you think twice about the storms we have. Still love Stephen King!
  • flynnparadox
    September 14, 2006
    flynnparadox
    Excellent mini-series is all the better because it doesn't have a book that we're comparing it to the entire time (unlike many other King television projects.) Colm Feore is at his best.
  • jscottcorley
    December 26, 2009
    jscottcorley
    In a move sure to end well, King skips writing a book and adapting it into a mediocre TV movie and just writes the mediocre TV movie script. Somehow it is still 4 hours long.
  • clevindian32gh
    December 23, 2009
    clevindian32gh
    I love reading Stephen King books and am quite a fan, this is an awesome movie and not just King fans will like it
  • atmycutest
    November 25, 2009
    atmycutest
    Loved it. The movie scared the storm out of me. In the middle of the film I was begging the people to just give him what he want so he can go away! until I realized what he wanted.
  • angeleyes8428
    November 22, 2009
    angeleyes8428
    great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • paultj17
    October 19, 2009
    paultj17
    Dark and fascinating!, Love it!
    "Born In Lust Turn To Dust, Born In Sin Come On In"
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