- Format: NTSC
- Release Date: April 30 2003
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (135 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000065IA3
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #16,839 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not really 'scary', but intense, smart, and disturbing,
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This review is from: Stephen King's Storm of the Century (DVD)
Intelligent Stephen King mini-series.A stranger comes to a small Maine island town during the titular storm, and turns the town upside-down, starting by killing a sweet old lady in the very first scene. Played with wonderfully charismatic and subtle menace by Colm Feore, this supernatural stranger, who knows everyone's secrets and can manipulate others to do in themselves or loved ones, has one repeated message; 'Give me what I want and I'll go away'. Of course, we don't find out what that something is until the end of the third and last part of the series, but it is a surprising and effectively unsettling twist that leads to moral complexities and human emotion more than to simplistic horror. There are flaws. Tim Daly as the protagonist (the town's constable) tries hard, but the character is bland enough that he can't quite keep up our interest the way antagonist Ferore can. Also, for a 4 hour and 15 minute film, we get to know frustratingly little about many of the supporting characters. While well acted, we often are given a first impression of a character, and then really never learn much else. This keeps the film from becoming truly great when the climax involves the townspeople turning on themselves. There's also the slightly annoying logic question. If Feore's character is so powerful, why can't he just take what he wants? (There's an explanation, but it's pretty thin). None-the-less, I was almost never bored, and the film is very well made. Not quite a classic, but very much worth a look.
1.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Stephen King's Storm of the Century (DVD)
I still don't have this product and wish I did. Can you help find out where it is? It's got to be two to three weeks overdue now.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Stephen King's movie of all time.,
This review is from: Storm of the Century (DVD)
This is a 3 hours movie and it's not for the faint of hearts. It talks about the devil that want something from a specific town. As all Stephen King's stories, it's a small town kind of isolated from the rest of the town. The devil wants one thing "give me what I want and I'll go away!". I won't ruin it for you, and I won't be a spoiler to tell you what he wants.The best thing about this movie is the ending. As many stupid authors write the endings like a fairytale and how everyone marries at the end and run happily ever after, which is stupid. Because on this life we are living on, it's rarely ever going on the right direction. When Stephen King's was asked by an angry fan who said "I work everyday 10 hours, and when I come home, I want to see something nice on T.V. not a stupid ending like this" Stephen King's answer was: "this is my ending. On any given day, on any given night, this is what people would do against any big problems. If you don't like it, then you just have to shove it up." And the ending will shock you, but if you think about it, this is the reality we're all living in. Enjoy this piece of art :D
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