I love bad movies. Therefore, I love this movie. This is a bad movie. I love it. Don't let the positive reviews fool you, this is a delightfully terrible piece of movie-making. It ranks up there with the worst Stephen King adaptations, with overwrought acting and terrible special effects. It would be best served by MST3K. Marg Helgenberger and Jimmy Smits turn in some of their worst work to date.Traci Lords isn't even sexy.The "Tommyknockers" are funny, and not even startling, never mind scary. And then there's the patented ham-handed Stephen King kid dialogue. It's just crap.I love it.

This was nothing like the book. I was thoroughly disappointed in this adaption. Instead of "becoming" the tommy knockers and subsequently being burned up in a huge fire, the towns people were just brain washed and were somehow OK at the end? They even changed the extremely dynamic and charming relationship between the two main characters of the story and turned it into something annoying and predictable. There were entire sections that were removed for no apparent reason. Honestly if you like the premise of this, please just read the book. It is much more convincing and detailed, everything that is good about a Stephen King novel.There was nothing good or redeeming about this, don't waste your time.

Why on Earth does this only have a 5.1? In my opinion, this was much better than Storm of the Century, which has a 7.1 (all ratings as of 5/30/08).The plot is very well written. A buried alien craft slowly turns the citizens of a small town into mind-reading, odd-gizmo-inventing slaves.The acting was excellent. Great performances by Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Robert Carrdine, Joanna Cassidy, and Allyce Beasley.The music was very creepy, and very fitting.The CGI was very good also, especially for a 1993 TV movie/series.There were some very shocking scenes, and a lot of interesting little plots here and there. All of these together make a King Classic, but it doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. 8/10.

The I rating is for the moment the credits went up on this utterly boring tripe.It makes no sense and its like 2 or 3 movie excerpts were stitched together. Logic? There was none-dolls that come to life for no reason and daft sub plots about cheating husbands. Science fiction should have an element of at least mystery and at least some logic but this has none.Why make a kid disappear through a magic trick? If these aliens who emerged towards the end had been used right they'd have scared people into submission yet one gets attacked with a shovel? Really this is an insult to viewers who enjoy proper science fiction like War Of The Worlds or The Invaders or Quatermass. The average zombie film makes more sense It says nothing in the end only you wasted time watching it