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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 17045
Released: September 9, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers. Includes interactive menus, scene access, and trailer.
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 30-JUN-2000
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Tommyknockers:
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
The Tommyknockers Reviews:
Really, really lame. 
2009-04-19 - This movie was very boring to watch, and I didn't care about any of the characters. I think I finished watching this movie just because I was too lazy to get up and take out the DVD. The special effects were really badly done--they used green light to excess, possibly just to cover up some of the worst "special effects". Lackluster story, characters with no chemistry, student-grade effects...pass on this one.
Best Horror 
2008-09-10 - "The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King is one of the greatest movies. It will certainly give you the chills.
A whole new meaning to battery powered...
2008-05-29 - 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 only
to end up sacrificing himself to rid the planet of the Tommyknockers.
Still,a very very good movie.
Tommyknockers are here
2008-03-19 - This film is very enjoyable to anyone with an interest in Science Fiction. It is a typical Stephen King classic,
From a Stephen King Fan 
2008-02-16 - 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, still I gave it 3 stars because it kept me entertained.
I purchased the DVD because I am collecting all of King's movies, and I am watching them more than once, but it will be a bit longer before I get around to this one again. If you are after a scare rating, this would only get a 1 on a 1-5 scale. I would never compare any movie based on one of his books and I have not read this one, but I can certainly imagine the story and characters coming together in the way he weaves a tale, I will endeavor to read the book.
