Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

An action-packed slog

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

***SPOILERS*** Planing to stay at quiet and scenic Clark's Harbor for the summer psychiatrist Dr. Brad Russell and his wife Eline, Patrick Duffy & Cindy Pickett, are a bit taken back about how unfriendly everyone in the town is towards them; That from the police chief Whalen, Brian Keith,on down. It's not long that Brad & Elaine feel that the place is not for them and plan to got back home to Seattle. It's when Brad later spots a friend of his from Seattle there Glen Palmer, Lawrence Pressman, that he decides to stay. It's Glen's young son Robby, Shawn Carson, whom Brad was treating for his emotional problems back home that got him interested in staying. Not to continue to treat him but to find out what made Robby so normal almost overnight!It doesn't take long for Brad to realize that the once overactive and uncontrollable Robby is not as normal as he seems to be. It's for some strange reason the violent ocean storms that hit the town that seem to quite the boy down. Storms that seem to come out of nowhere and left those who aren't natives to Clark Harbor dead in their wake!So-so horror or supernatural made for TV movie with a double twist ending that instead of explaining what's been going on in it confuses the issue even more. People, or strangers considered by those living there, who moved into Cark Harbor over the last 30 or so years Brad finds out suffered horrible and in most cases unexplainable deaths. It's old man Riley, Jeff Corey, an nutty beachcomber in the town who warned the couple ,Brad & Elaine,to get out of town before they end up dead themselves. In his trying to warn the away Riley ended up dead himself.***MAJOR SPOILERS*** We finally find out what's been going in at Clark Harbor in the films Storm and wind swept final moments. It did have something to do with what happened to a person who's living there when he was a little boy which we saw at the very beginning of the movie. Something that had him searching for answers, that eventually ended up driving him insane, all his adult life! And in the end when the truth finally came out we in the audience as well as the cast of the movie were in for quite a shock!

Boring early 80's ghost film. In the likes of "Poltergeist" this movie tried to copy the winning elements that made the fore-mentioned film a classic in the genre.Cheesy f/x, bad acting, and confusing scenes make this a terrible horror movie. The "strangers" appearance is a good moment as the scene is kind of creepy but then the movie fails to create scary moments. Watch "Poltergeist II" instead of this crap.Patrick Duffy is the best thing about it no doubt about it.2/10. At least it made a little effort.

Forgettable movie adaptation of a mediocre book by John Saul, an incredibly talented writer of atmospheric horrors/thrillers. Saul,A master of scary novels has some books that are as good or better then King. So-there comes the questions:1)why haven't more of his books been adapted to movies? and 2) why was the ONE book picked cry for the strangers?This story is big on atmosphere I'll give it that but aside from that I wouldn't say it's memorable in the least-and I have been a big fan of Saul. I never even made it fully through the book. The strange thing is, every other-or practically of saul's stories is better. So you gotta wonder:who on earth picked this one?The movie is just another thriller. I think more books should be adapted by Saul, a great writer on many levels. When I think of the great ones I think:"comes the blind fury","punish the sinners", and "The god project" to name a few. all of which would have made superb movies.

Saw this on UK TV some years back - just as my interest in John Saul reached a peak.Not a bad film, really - considering the TV-movie limitations imposed on it - but not so great either.If you like John Saul give it a go - otherwise......don't bother.