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The Tommyknockers (1993) -- A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutates.

Overview

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Director:
John Power
Writers (WGA):
Stephen King (novel)
Lawrence D. Cohen (teleplay)
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Release Date:
9 May 1993 (USA) more
Tagline:
A chilling thriller from the master of horror. more
Plot:
A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutates. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
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(2 articles)
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 (From Screen Rant. 13 March 2009, 12:05 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Review of shortened video version. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jimmy Smits ... Jim 'Gard' Gardner

Marg Helgenberger ... Roberta 'Bobbi' Anderson

John Ashton ... Trooper Butch Duggan

Allyce Beasley ... Deputy Becka Paulson

Robert Carradine ... Bryant Brown

Joanna Cassidy ... Sheriff Ruth Merrill

Annie Corley ... Marie Brown

Cliff De Young ... Joe Paulson

Traci Lords ... Nancy Voss

E.G. Marshall ... Ev Hillman
Chuck Henry ... Chaz Stewart
Leon Woods ... Hilly Brown
Paul McIver ... Davey Brown
Yvonne Lawley ... Mabel Noyes
Bill Johnson ... Elt Barker
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Stephen King's The Tommyknockers
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Runtime:
181 min | 120 min (cut version)
Country:
USA | New Zealand
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Auckland, New Zealand more

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Trivia:
The films Italian title is "Le Creature del buio", meaning "The Creatures of Darkness." more
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Continuity: When Gard and Bobbi are first lowered into the ship, Gard has nothing in his hands. On the way down, he suddenly has a flashlight. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Cinemania: Stephen King: O vasilias tou tromou" (2009) more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Review of shortened video version., 27 March 2002
Author: sibisi73 from United Kingdom

One of King's lesser novels is transformed into one of the worst adaptations of his work so far. King's incredible imagination has always proved difficult to translate to the screen, which seems too small to contain everything on the page. There have been, literally, a handful of decent adaptations of his work, but it is usually the less graphic stories, or those dealing with a psychological horror rather than a physical presence that transfer best.

'The Tommyknockers' treads familiar King ground, and is very reminiscent if 'Needful Things', with an unknown force entering the lives of the community and turning one against the other for it's own end. There is a tormented and fallible hero, innocence is lost and found, there's an old codger with tales to scare the kids, and strange goings-on down at the old Indian burial ground. All par for the course then. The version I've seen was a shortened video version, which made no sense at all. Characters and events seemed to materialise without warning and act without any compulsion at all. It appears that most of the plot development has been removed too, but, to be honest, sitting through another 60 minutes would've only induced more boredom, not enlightenment. The result is an amateurish, uninteresting, and frightless mess.

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