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Stephen King's Storm of the Century
starring: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko, Jeffrey DeMunn
directed by: Craig R. Baxley

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781573625739
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1573625736
Label: Vidmark / Trimark
Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Running Time: 248 minutes
Sales Rank: 10752
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 1999

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'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 brutally 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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- Great King Flick: WHY Didn't He Write a Book???
For me, there's a definite irony attached to this project, as far as King is concerned. Most of his novels have not been very well adapted to the big screen (or small screen) during his long career. This likely has more to do with those who try to direct, produce, and adapt King's work than with the source-work itself. Even "Carrie," "Misery," and Kubrick's "The Shining" (the best adaptations of his material, so far) were not quite as good as the books. As a longtime King admirer, it's been a bit of a frustration to see film-versions of his work consistently fail to dazzle.

With 'Storm of the Century,' however, we have a story from the mind of King that is extremely effective and resonant onscreen...BUT HE DIDN'T WRITE IT IN NOVEL-FORM! Hence the irony. This is one bit of King's imagination I would love to have seen fleshed-out in a massive, juicy book. The film is genuinely spooky. The story is full ... Read More

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- A Good Movie on a Cold Winters Day!!!!
This is one of those great Mystery,Thriller type movies.It really holds your attention and keeps you guessing up to the end.

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- Storm of the Century
Excelente pelicula, a pesar de que es larga te mantiene en tension por lo que va a pasar, creo que una de las mejores peliculas de suspenso y miedo de Stephen King...

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- A worthy addition to one's Stephen King film library!
The movie, Storm of the Century, was written by Stephen King specifically for television and because of that most of the violence was down played and left to the viewer's imagination. As King often says about television, "the networks give and the networks take away." What this means is that the networks will give the time needed to broadcast a miniseries based on one of his stories, but they put a limit on the amount of violence that can be showed, especially when dealing with children. As the writer and executive producer of Storm of the Century, King had to rely on creating scenes for the movie that were intense, but with the violence off screen. In other words, the viewer never sees the cane actually hitting the old woman at the beginning, or the axe splitting someone's face, or an elderly lady drowning herself in a sink full of water, etc., etc. This way, the movie leaves it to the viewer's imagination as to ... Read More

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