dhbuck 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.

Vic' Bouqet good movie, unfortunately, a little ridiculous at the end. Pity, the atmosphere of the movie sticks well to the world of Stephen King, the short version of the 2H spend nearly quickly. A film to see if it's really cold outside, and with a good bag of popcorn.Ps: you would never again buy soda in vending as before.(spoiler)A beautiful jump cut between 01H49min05s 01H49M34S, when the blood flowing from his nose disappears before coming back thereafter. As said Uncle Claude, it goes and it comes back. Remember, if you are a dentist, to go to the scene of the next alien invasion. The false tooth flow freely. (spoiler)

TheLittleSongbird I loved Salem's Lot, liked The Stand and It and initially had mixed views on the Shining thinking it somewhat pointless but found it far more impressive on re-watch. But I didn't like the TommyKnockers, in fact I found it almost unwatchable. It has nothing to do with its faithfulness or lack of to the source material, I just couldn't get into it on its own terms.Are there any redeeming values? Well the music is reasonably atmospheric, and Mary Helgenberger plays her part excellently, also it does start off promisingly.However, the special effects are rather slapdash and cheap, not helped by some rushed editing and flat camera work. The dialogue is clunky and stilted, the story moves at an uneven pace with some choppy and unimaginative scenes and gimmicks- I found myself scratching my head at points especially the lipstick idea which felt thrown in and didn't feel like Stephen King at all-, the love scenes are cheesy and slow the adaptation down and the ending brings the word silliness to a whole new level. The pace is pedestrian as well, the direction is sluggish and the acting apart from Helgenberger is not great. Jimmy Smits is very miscast and awkward and Traci Lords is incredibly irritating and out of place.Overall, a disappointment. 2/10 Bethany Cox

booboobunnygirl 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.