Other Titles • Stephen King's The Tommyknockers (1993)
Synopses for The Tommyknockers (1993)
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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
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The inhabitants of a spooky Maine town begin to notice strange goings-on related to a malevolent and unexplained energy source emanating from the ground beneath them. After a series of odd occurrences -- including a vanishing younger brother, a grimacing doll, and a glowing piece of green metal -- the townfolk discover that they've all developed ESP. What their enhanced perception doesn't tell them is that death awaits.
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You Can't Run. You Can't Hide. You Can Only Become...One Of Them.
From somewhere deep in the woods, from a time centuries past, an unearthly evil has just been released and is coming to the small New England town of Haven. The old Indian woods hold many mysteries--stories of murder and strange disappearances that the townspeople of Haven have passed from generation to generation.
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