Storm of the Century

1999

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

14
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 26572 26.6K

Plot summary

When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.

Director

Craig R. Baxley Photo
Craig R. Baxley

Top cast

David Ferry Photo
David Ferry as Lloyd Wishman 2 episodes, 1999
Steve Rankin Photo
Steve Rankin as Jack Carver 3 episodes, 1999
Lynne Griffin Photo
Lynne Griffin as Jane Kingsbury 2 episodes, 1999
Adam LeFevre Photo
Adam LeFevre as Ferd Andrews 3 episodes, 1999
480p.BluRay
2.21 GB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by whpratt1 8 / 10

Liked Stephen Kings Story

Always liked Stephen Kings books and some of his films were great and others not as interesting, with horrible endings which made very little sense. This film in my opinion was fantastic and held my interest right to the very end and his conclusion to the film was even better than I expected. Storm of the Century was very creepy with all the snow covering this small lobster town and then a man with an ugly cane coming to the door of a very old home; and an old lady drinking tea inside hears the door bell and struggles to use a walker to see who is at her door. It is from this point on that the film never stops giving you the creeps and chills up and down your spine. This strange man keeps saying: "Give Me What I Want and I will Go Away" and the guy really means it. Stephen King even makes an appearance on a broken TV Screen, so watch out for his brief showing. Enjoy
Reviewed by Gunnar_Runar_Ingibjargarson 8 / 10

What a story, what a man, what a movie?

"Give me what I want and I'll go away," demands the black-eyed, stocking-capped stranger Linoge (Colm Feore), who appears in a quiet island community on the verge of the worst storm in decades and brutally bludgeons an old lady to death. Tim Daly, the town sheriff and voice of reason and moral strength, locks up the quiet madman, but the deaths pile up as Linoge acts them out from his cell like a murderous mime pulling psychic strings. Stephen King, whose original teleplay is his best work for the screen since The Stand, transforms the sleepy burg into a Peyton Place of guilty secrets and criminal activity ripped from under a blanket of small town normality while the white-out of the snowstorm completely cuts them off from civilization. Director Craig R. Baxley nicely maintains an icy tension while the waiting game goes on, perhaps a little too long, before Linoge finally reveals "what he wants" and the drama turns into a struggle for man's soul in miniature. The more ambitious special effects and set pieces sometimes disappoint but are more than made up for in King's knack for turning the mundane into the macabre (the children's song "I'm a Little Teapot" has never sounded more sinister) and a few brilliantly realized sequences, the best of which occurs when townspeople are literally yanked out of existence while watching the storm. Storm of the Century is one of the most successful translations of King's brand of horror to the screen.
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