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The terrifying tale of a town beseiged by evil. The inhabitants of a picturesque sleepy little town on a small island off the coast of main find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world when they are hit by the worst storm of the century. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Tim Daly Colm Feore Run time: 248 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Craig R. Baxley

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Actors:	Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director:	Craig R. Baxley
Format:	Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English, Spanish
Number of Discs:	1
Studio:	Lions Gate
Run Time:	256 minutes
DVD Release Date:	June 22, 1999
Average Customer Rating:	based on 184 reviews

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Great King Flick: WHY Didn't He Write a Book??? Nov 15, 2008
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 of suspense. The setting is both claustrophic and wildly elemental. The characters are compelling. The performances are very good. Best of all is the premise. Here, King essentially seeks to offer a very spine-tingling explanation for the infamously mysterious (and never solved) disappearances of hundreds of colonists in 17th century Roanoke.

In this tale, King offers a truly chilling villain in Andre Linoge, who is apparently some sort of ancient demon or sorcerer who, every few hundred years, needs to force some community of human beings to turn on each other and freely offer-up one of their small children to him. What Linoge does with the chosen child is only hinted-at in the film, but it seems that, as the sorcerer's body becomes ravaged by extreme age, he eventually "possesses" the child and is made young and semi-immortal again.

There are several obstacles to the fulfillment of Linoge's black magic, however, and these are the things that make for a great story & plot. First, Linoge must apparently cull the chosen child from an isolated community (here, it's "Little Tall Island," off the Maine coast). Then, he must infiltrate the community and terrorize it, sowing confusion and shame through threats and the revelation of the townsfolks' own, hidden secrets. Finally, he must essentially trick them (Shirley Jackson "Lottery"-style) into agreeing to offer one of their children in order to spare the entire community from a complete destruction that is never defined (also quite spooky). Linoge's mantra is: "Give me what I want and I'll go away." In this case, the viewer is made aware that the previous community singled-out for demonic harassment (17th-century Roanoke Island) apparently did ~not~ comply with his wishes, and none were ever seen again.

That, however, is just one bonus layer of intrigue and "coolness" about King's overall tale, and how it's delineated here. The meat of the film is the gradual unraveling of the entire town, which is cut-off from any chance of outside help by a tremendous winter storm obviously fueled by the powers of Linoge. As the secrets and vulnerabilities of one townsperson after another are exposed by the creature, the sense of doom grows more palpable and unsettling. Tim Daly ('Wings') effectively plays Mike Anderson, the local sheriff who stands as King's upright, good-hearted Everyman, trying to keep the town sane under the yoke of the evil oppressor, even as the storm worsens. In trying to protect the others in town, however, Anderson overlooks the deeper, more personal horror that Linoge has in store for *him*. I won't spoil it.

A strong story, strong plotting, strong cinematography, and strong performances make this an absolute must-have for King fans, and a winner for any fan of contemporary horror. Light-years better than the messy "It," "Shining," and "Rose Red" TV-productions, "Storm of the Century" features the King imagination at its near-best, accurately captured on film. If ONLY it were also one of his novels!

A Good Movie on a Cold Winters Day!!!! Nov 02, 2008
This is one of those great Mystery,Thriller type movies.It really holds your attention and keeps you guessing up to the end.

Storm of the Century Oct 18, 2008
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...

A worthy addition to one's Stephen King film library! Jul 05, 2008
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 what takes place, which is sometimes good. As the old saying goes, less is more.

The story deals with an island town off the coast of Maine and the few hundred citizens that live there. The part-time constable (played by Tim Daley) is also the owner of the local grocery store, while the town manager (played by Jeffrey DeMunn) is the local realtor. As it begins, the town's people are stocking up on food in preparation for the worse storm of the century. They know that they're going to be snowed in and unreachable from the mainland, but they're use to winter storms and know how to deal with them. What they're not used to is the strange and malevolent visitor that suddenly appears from nowhere and beats a local resident to death with his cane and then waits for the constable to arrive. The evil visitor is played to perfection by Colm Feore, and he unintentionally steals the movie away from the other actors with every scene that he's performing in. In fact, he did such a great job that whenever I see him in another show or movie, I always think of him as Andre Linoge from this miniseries. With his coal-black eyes and the gruesome smile that displays his four sharp incisors, Linoge is the villain of the century as he tells the town to give him what he wants and he'll go away. Of course, it takes several deaths before the good and not-so-good citizens begin to understand that Linoge isn't your ordinary criminal and that a lot more people are going to die if they don't give in to his demands. Tim Daley as the town's constable reflects the strength and moral attributes of a good person when he refuses to give into what Linoge wants; but, as in any small community, not all the citizens are pillars of society and many weaken rather quickly once the fear of the unknown sets in. Though you can see the ending coming from a mile away, it still grips you within its claw-like hands when it finally arrives in the form of a town meeting and a decision has to be made that will change every person's life forever.

I think Storm of the Century is one of the better miniseries based on a work by Stephen King. Though it wouldn't hurt to cut thirty minutes from the show's four-hour length, the movie still manages to supply the viewer with what it promises--scares, edge-of-your-seat suspense, a frightening antagonist whose smile suggest that the best is still yet to come, and an ending that gives you food-for-thought about the goodness of mankind when push comes to shove. This is a well-acted TV movie with good performances by all its actors, especially Colm Feore, Tim Daley, and the great Jeffrey DeMunn. I've been a fan of DeMunn since he played the sheriff in the original movie version of The Hitcher. His performances in each film since then have always been right on the mark, proving what a fantastic character actor he is. The special effects, however, could be a little better, but then again this is television. There is one scene where the town's people envision themselves walking off a long pier and into the ocean that was excellent. Anyway, the DVD doesn't have much in the way extras, except for a feature-length commentary by Stephen King, which is definitely worth the price of admission. It's not often that King does a commentary for one of his movies, so fans of the maestro of horror have to grab it where they can. Recommended as a good Saturday night movie with a bowl of popcorn and a can of soda pop!

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STORM OF THE CENTURY Apr 28, 2008
I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE IT'S WORTH WATCHING WHEN YOU GET TIME GIVE IT A TRY. IT'S NO WASTE OF MONEY.