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"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. Buy The Movie
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