The Tommyknockers
 
Movie
Title: The Tommyknockers
Director: John Power
Screenplay: Lawrence D. Cohen
Year: 1993, Konigsberg/Sanitsky Prod.
Length: 181 min. (120 cut version)
DVD available: Yes (View Trailer)
In database: Yes (Region 1)
 
Cast
Jim Gardner Jimmy Smits
Bobbi Anderson Marg Helgenberger
Sheriff Ruth Joanna Cassidy
Nancy Voss Traci Lords
Darcey Brown Paul McIver
 
 
Book
Title: The Tommyknockers
Dutch issue: De Gloed
Original story: The Tommyknockers
Dutch title: De Gloed
Author: Stephen King
Year: 1987, Putnam
 
Synopsis
The TV mini-series "The Tommyknockers" was based on King's novel "The Tommyknockers" which was first published by Putnam as a hardcover book in November 1987.

Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their teeth fall out and they act out all of their fantasies (violent or otherwise). Guess who's immune to the power of this alien spaceship? You got it—our good old metal-headed poet can save the day if he can get it together enough to do so. Really more of a B movie than most King horrorfests.

 
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