the audience applauded

Good idea lost in the noise

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

There are some very scary movies best on Steven King books. This is not one of them. I do not know why this got a 7.4. The story line is awful. It is not scary. It has an awful ending. It is not a 7.4. It is a 1. There are great actors in this movie. They wasted there time. Do not waste your time. Do not waste your money. Do not see this movie. It is one of the worst horror movies of all time. If you want to something really scary see The Shining. Maximum overdrive is also very scary. Carrie is also very scary. This is not. Do not see it. Is awful. I can not believe that the same man who wrote a great story like The Shining wrote this.

"Give me what I want and I will go away." Everyone who lives in this one village off the mainland is preparing for the big storm.It is going to be a threat but they don't realize there is a bigger threat that arrived in their village, a mysterious but also frightening man humming his favorite tune "I'm a little teapot".This man will soon scare everyone in the village. This is a great movie adapted from Stephen King's book.It is terrifying, mysterious and suspenseful with murder, lies and more. Everything a good mysterious horror movie needs.The great cast plays their characters very well in this film to the point you do not believe they are acting, it seems so real.The mysterious character in this film will leave you with an eerie feeling at the end with a definite twist you would not expect.If you want to watch a great horror film, I suggest you see this movie.

When a serious and damaging storm signals the arrival of a mysterious stranger on a small island off the coast of Maine, his rampage of terror across the inhabitants forces them to make a horrifying decision when they learn his true intentions for arriving.This one turned out to be quite decent and pretty enjoyable. The setting is great, as the snow-fallen town looks suitably chilling and provides a wonderful blanket for the events to follow, generates some nice suspense and generally works well. The development of his plan and why he's there are both chilling, with the first half being devoted to his arrival and incarceration, the second a demonstration of his power and the third being his whole plan creating a very nice ark that culminates in some good stuff through each offering. With a lot more deaths on hand, the second is generally more entertaining than the others as there's some pretty nasty deaths on hand as we get to see him assert his power over the town in the middle of the storm so there's plenty of good times throughout this part, though again most of the segments do have a great scene throughout. It does have a couple of rather big flaws, though, mainly in the fact that it takes forever for the secret of what he wants to come out, and when it does, it feels a little underwhelming since a lot of time has been spent on it being this big secret yet it's entirely underwhelming. As well, a lot of stuff here seems padded out due to it's mini-series origin with a lot of scenes that really don't need to be there at all or could've been shortened to keep this moving along at a little swifter pace. All in all, not one of his better efforts in the field but certainly worthwhile enough.Rated Unrated/PG-13: Violence, Language and children-in-jeopardy.

This is a faithful representation of the book in that its pretty weak. The concept is pretty interesting (though as always, rather too similar to everything else Stephen King has turned out) but it just doesn't have much to give. The book was the same."Born in custard? Try the mustard!" Those little sayings really aren't very good either. If I'd lived for several thousand years I'd hope I'd have come up with better catchphrases.Worth a watch especially if, like myself, you like a few of Stephen Kings' books. Its far too long though and without any appreciable tension. One thing I found especially jarring was the use of full names. "Going to be windy, Billy Bob Jones. Nobody talks like that. You just wouldn't would you? Having seen Stephen Kings' amusing attempt to write an English character in Langoliers I suspect this is every bit as authentic.The whole biblical thing is utterly garbled too. "Legion" isn't someone's name, it just meant many whereas the character specifically states he is an individual and not immortal either. If you're going to use bits of religion or mythology in horror you need to be consistent.Also, I'm pretty sure Croaton was just the name of an especially hostile local Indian tribe. Big mystery.