Product Description: A small maine town is in jeopardy from a source of evil power not of this earth. When the town is overtaken by the force in the woods just out of town one man fights back and enters into its source for the final conclusion. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/16/2005 Starring: Jimmy Smits Marg Helgenberger Director: John Power
Amazon.com: The Tommyknockers is a TV miniseries based on Stephen King's 1987 novel. An alien spacecraft has been buried beneath the Burning Woods near the small rural New England community of Haven for millions of years, but has now by chance been unearthed by Bobbi (Marg Helgenberger) while digging around in the woods behind her house. The structure in the woods begins to exert a glowing-green influence on the town, causing the people to invent Rube Goldberg-like gizmos, develop the gift of telepathy, lose their teeth, and form a hive-mind mentality bent on digging up the ship and revivifying the desiccated aliens within. Luckily, Bobbi's significant other is an alcoholic poet (Jimmy Smits) who needs to learn to face his fears. He also has a metal plate in his head that prevents the hive-minders from reading his thoughts and makes him immune to the neon-green influence of the aliens. Ultimately, it's up to him to save the day. Although the acting is topnotch, especially from Smits and Helgenberger, and there are plenty of gooseflesh moments, there are also enough plot holes here to fuel a very long and enjoyable evening's conversation. Why do the aliens start in at this time, when they've been causing legends in the woods for ages? Where does an alien ship buried for ages get all that dry ice? How does the Smits character make a living as a poet? One suspects that King's fine sense of New England characterizations is given short shrift here, and that the woods in his mind teem with more alien thoughts than the TV miniseries form could embody. Welcome appearances by congenial actors abound, notably Joanna Cassidy, E.G. Marshall and Robert Carradine. And there's a slutty postal letter-carrier played authentically by Traci Lords. --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Best Horror
"The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King is one of the greatest movies. It will certainly give you the chills.
Rating: - A whole new meaning to battery powered...
This is a favorite of mine, I loved the characters, the storyline, everything. The ending was sad though, Jimmy Smitts went thru all
that trouble to try and quit drinking and saving his girlfriend ... Read More
Rating: - OK, Not Great
Movie was different in some respects from the book, but you have to expect that..I guess. I was left shaking my head, but still thought the movie was OK. It was a step above Sleepwalkers which was weak. ... Read More
Rating: - Tommyknockers are here
This film is very enjoyable to anyone with an interest in Science Fiction. It is a typical Stephen King classic,
Rating: - From a Stephen King Fan
I would like this movie regardless, because I am a Stephen King fan, but it is a bit dated and there seems to be too many stories going on at a time, I don't think it flows, to a very well explained climax, ... Read More
- Best Horror
- OK, Not Great