Loved Storm of the Century. It's a bit of a funny story. My mom thought she was buying The Perfect Storm (she loved that movie, idk). She bought this instead. Thank God for similar titles. She watched the first five minutes, turned it off and came knocked on my bedroom door. I opened the door and she handed it to me saying "I can't even buy myself a tape anymore without it being something you would like." She smiled and walked away. She passed away in 2004, that memory has always stuck with me.
Though I didn't quite realize it then, I was lucky enough to have one of the coolest childhood/teenage experiences ever. Born in 1980, I grew up in an apartment above our local video store and started working there by the time I was 12. The Stephen King movie/mini-series renaissance was such a huge thing. People planned their lives around some of this stuff, especially the really big ones like IT or The Stand. The home video releases were always crazy times as well. We would often get in screener copies of stuff in advance and I loved being able to take them home and invite friends over to watch stuff before anyone else could see it. This era was such a memorable part of my life, I only wish I had appreciated it a bit more at the time- I certainly wouldn't have taken as many things for granted.
Great review! I remember watching Skeepwalkers on the big screen. The second half just ramps it up to 11. Madchen Amick was my big crush from the get go. I believe she is The litmus test of whether a dude’s straight or belongs in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in the BDSM dungeon with that gym coach and the not-so straight protagonist. Quote of the day: ‘….people should keep their hands to themselves, here’s yours…..’
Storm of the Century is probably the second best Stephen King mini-series, though it's generational blasphemy to say it's better than either IT (1990) or The Stand (1992?). Rose Red is schlocky wonderful goodness. Phantoms is the only Dean Koontz book I actually enjoy, and the movie is just good fun.
I just saw Rose Red again last week, never gets old. Also funny how it started out as a joint with Spielberg called The Haunting but then King left the project, adapted his script et voila: Rose Red 😅.
Secret Window is one of my favourite Stephen King adaptations and it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I know it's really predictable and cliché but it's still pretty entertaining and I never get tired of watching it. Dolores Claiborne is also super underrated and it’s actually Kathy Bates's favourite role. Doctor Sleep is the best SK adaptation since The Mist. It perfectly reconciles King's novels and Kubrick's adaptation. Dolan's Cadillac is not your typical SK story but it's still a great slow paced revenge thriller. Christian Slater was amazing.
I loveTim Daley in this role. What a performance to play this genuinely good guy with some complexity that’s revealed by this huge dilemma that he faces all on his own.
Maybe I’m in the minority but some of my faves were Cats Eye, Thinner, and Secret Window. But my list can go on and on. Pet Sematary, Dolores Claiborne and Silver Bullet. Thanks dad for giving me the Night Shift short story collection when I was 8, and starting my intense love of horror.
Silver Bullet, Graveyard Shift, Night Flier, Sometimes They Come Back, The Mangler and Skinwalkers...are some of personal favourites, and in my opinion they are far more enjoyable than the recent CGI heavy "IT" films that were very successful, but for me, you can't beat earlier films, they have a charm that (most) modern horror films lack.
My thoughts on the Storm of the Century was that Linoge didn't have power over the weather but had a kind of omniscience so he could see when the storm would end. He was pressuring the townspeople to choose not because he had control, but because he was bluffing. If the storm ended before he got the child then the townspeople would never have chosen and he would have nothing at the end.
This was always my interpretation. Linoge was not as powerful as he makes them think. If they had stood firm and refused to choose, he would have lost and left to find another town to get his protegé from
The mangler I think is a great instance of showing how camp doesn't need to have its tongue in its cheek and how earnesty doesn't need to be so self serious.
Stephen lives right down the road from me here in Bangor, Maine. I played basketball against his son well over 30 years ago in a grade school all star game. Stephen shows up looking the part dressed down and wearing them old school colored converse. He's a strange dude but interesting for sure. About every time I pass by his place there are people camped in front of his house taking pictures. Pretty funny
Thank you for realizing that Andre Linoge is NOT truly evil. You got it right there -- how much do we really care about the life of an insect? I love how he calls them all Mayflies when telling them in the Town Hall that, even though he is "old and sick", he will still be alive long after all but the youngest of the kids -- maybe the teenager, if he's lucky -- has long since died. But, he also shows them a level of compassion and remorse. Colm Feore plays him as an entity that honestly is doing what he does not because he enjoys it (however, I think he really does enjoy telling Mike and the town about the truly deplorable humans they live with, like the pedophile priest), but because he has to to make sure what he is survives past him. I've always thought that it's an entity vital to the survival of the Multiverse. Some kind of being akin to The Watcher in Marvel Comics -- a chronicler of our particular universe that must exist. It's not really evil, it's not really good. It just is, and has to be, regardless of how it's maintained. I've also always thought that he let's Mike see Ralphey at the end as a means of reward or compassion. Mike was the one person in the entire town that stood up to him, and fought him tooth and nail, even though it was futile. He probably earned Linoge's eternal respect. Linoge saw the inherent goodness of him, and wanted to reward him with one last visit to his son. To let him know that he was alive, and would be so for millennia. However, because Linoge is not human, he ended up causing a ton of pain without considering it, because again -- how much do we really value the life of an insect?
Storm of the Century was an amazing mini-series, I remember watching when it was released and it's held up well. Sleepwalkers is also a really fun movie, but then again anything with Machen Amick is watchable.
It's so ironic: In 1995, Ted Levine co-starred in what is arguably one of the greatest crime dramas ever made, Michael Mann's "Heat", starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, etc...and then he also appeared in this stinker "The Mangler". However, for all its flaws, I like it. Talk about an up-and-down year.
I have a weird Storm of the Century memory, of the narrator mentioning that "it's the interest that breaks your back" during the "pay as you go" section, but I might be remembering it from something else, as it's not in my DVD copy, nor in the book.
Great choice on thumbnail, I'm always clicking on Madchen Amick. Also, my friends and I still say "Give me what I want and I will go away" all the time.
The fact is - The Shining - is the absolute best Steven King story ever adopted to film and against Stephen King’s wishes and desires (he didn’t want JN, etc) .- His other films might have interesting story / concept / twist yet MOST seem to B produced cheaply.
Night Shift is really cheesy fun. Stephen Macht chews the scenery and the movie has a great vibe with the cotton mill and the crazy summer heat. Also Colm Feore in Storm of the Century is one of my favorite villains of all time. Really chilling.
wow I'm letting TH-cam push me through your backlog and wasn't expecting the mangler. As a young child i saw the trailer for this movie and pushed the memory so far back that it literally gave me frequent nightmares until i decided to look up the movie in my early 30's
Definitely agree about the need for a bluray release of Storm of the Century, really frustrating it's never had a decent release. The one thing I really wanted, though: Linoge's wolf head cane. I've done searches over the years and not managed to find one that matches it, I even tried emailing the production company but they thought I was trying to get my hands on the animatronic version and told me to go away...
I know it's not quite "horror" (it's more of a psychological-thriller family drama), or if you covered it in another video, but Dolores Claiborne is another underrated King film from the 90's. Kathy Bates knocks it outta the park once again. Just thought I'd mention & recommend 👍.
Need I add the episodes of tales from the darkside and monsters, sorry right number and the moving finger respectfully. And for underrated miniseries I like storm of the century, rose red and kingdom hospital
As an avid King's consumer (both books and films/series) I need to say that I've seen all of this jewels, being my faves in this order 1- Sleepwalkers Because is more of solitude and survival and how toxic a relationship can became on those circumstances (on the sleepwalkers side) and need to be seen by their peers no matter if she's already accepted by them (on the final girl side) Is a conplete study on those characters 2- Storm pf the century It's all about how it only take a vulnerable thing to someone take the power and lead you to a path of despair, and it will be all about will and moral. 3- The mangler Is all about ambition and doubtful morals. How much are people holding onto something that make them suffer to achieve a goal. Either way, this one is not bad, and is a fun watch. Need more of adapted King's work videos!!
Storm of the Century is my favorite Stephen King Made for TV Movie! It just sends you back in time. I live in New England and every year I wish for a snow storm so I can watch this and The Thing 😂 perfect mood setter.
I love Sleepwalkers beyond sanity. Alice Krige is magnificent and Ron Perlman, and God I love the cop and his cat Clovis🤗🥰😍Edit and l LOVE the cats! Not the dead aspect, the spooky star aspect. And Enya’s Boadicea’s music as well. The cats are such a defining aspect of this film, together with Alice dancing with Brian Krause. I think it’s interesting how the special effects make up resembles the look they gave Ron Perlman in Beauty and The Beast, the 1980’s tv series.
This was a great video, just discovered your channel! I'm from New England and grew up with a friend and neighbor named Buster. In our Massachusetts accents, it was always pronounced like Busta Rhymes. Hearing the actress in SOTC say "Bustahhhh!" cracked me up. She tried, poor thing.
Storm of the century is easily his best miniseries. It’s also one of the best overall adaptations. It’s excellent. Sleepwalkers is fun and campy. The Mangler sucks. I couldn’t even get through it.
I would’ve loved to have seen Storm of the Century as the final King entry on laserdisc. Almost every adaptation of his exists on the format (except Quicksilver Highway), it could’ve made for one amazing final boxset…😊
I would up this video 30 more times just for mentioning Ted Levine's detective performance in The Mangler. That movie is a certified blue ribbon, chefs kiss B movie. if you wanted movie this Halloween that really isn't scary so much as gory, that you can have enough emotional distance from to have a good time, or to watch at 420 with a friend.... this is a real treat.
Okay so I remember when this came on TV, it was so scary to me! I live in Maine and the year before we had a massive Ice storm that knocked out power. Road and isolated people from weeks to a few months.
I’m gonna watch the Mangler. I saw that Storm movie back in the day. It was fine, BUT there was so much King being cranked out that it had no chance to be judged on its own. -- I always thought the “mother and son” weren’t really mother and son. I thought they were just playing roles for their goals. As stupid as this movie is I like how they were able to make them feel they were lonely and maybe even a little bored.
Any movie with Mädchen Amick in it gets an automatic extra point on the dice from me. Since the first time I saw her in Twin Peaks, I had a crush on her and I don't think it ever went away. That smile could break the strongest of men🙂
I loved the cast of Sleepwalkers Mädchen Amick and Brian Krause, especially Alice Krige. She stole every scene she was in. They're all three so goregous and talented. I know it was a campy movie but the actors were awesome.
The Mangler, such a Good and Fun movie. A Low Budget Underrated GEM in my opinion. Agreed, the Basic Premise is indeed Outlandish and even Seemingly Silly. But its really the Characters that make this movie what it is and that i think is because Tobe Hooper wanted to have Fun with this. A Silly idea but Figured out and Taken Seriously. And that's the point of Opportunity for the Suspension of DISBELIEF to kick in where the Story and Characters get to shine. Here's what i remember about the film Then vs Now and why i think it would perform Better today. Not by a whole lot but it Could get a more Cult following if given a chance. The Core part of the Story is twofold, Corruption and Redemption. One character "falls to the dark side" by the end and our Detective gets a form of Redemption by Facing his own Demons by facing the Evil of Corruption and the Mangler itself. Yes, by the end the Mangler is back operating like nothing happened to stop it but...the Detective is able to Leave the town, escape the Corruption and essentially save his soul. The dialogue was Fantastic throughout and you really felt the connection between hardigan and his only 2 friends. Anything will a sequel to this is to be Avoided, pure waste of time.
i stopped being able to read king as an adult because his writing is poor but i love his storytelling and i love "bad" movies so the king adaptations are some of my fav repeat watch horrors, sleepwalkers was a fav growing up.
My husband and I really loved this one. I was completely devastated when I found out what he actually wanted. Feore was amazing as the villain. It really made me think what I would do if in that position.
Guess it must be a “generation” thing….. I was a teenager in the 90s…. When we got cable in the early 90s, we got the monthly TVGuide and would just highlight any movie labeled as horror/Thriller/Suspense/Sci-Fi and tape it on VHS…. So I watched all these…. I particularly loved Sleepwalkers….
Loved Storm of the Century. It's a bit of a funny story. My mom thought she was buying The Perfect Storm (she loved that movie, idk). She bought this instead. Thank God for similar titles. She watched the first five minutes, turned it off and came knocked on my bedroom door. I opened the door and she handed it to me saying "I can't even buy myself a tape anymore without it being something you would like." She smiled and walked away. She passed away in 2004, that memory has always stuck with me.
Though I didn't quite realize it then, I was lucky enough to have one of the coolest childhood/teenage experiences ever. Born in 1980, I grew up in an apartment above our local video store and started working there by the time I was 12. The Stephen King movie/mini-series renaissance was such a huge thing. People planned their lives around some of this stuff, especially the really big ones like IT or The Stand. The home video releases were always crazy times as well. We would often get in screener copies of stuff in advance and I loved being able to take them home and invite friends over to watch stuff before anyone else could see it. This era was such a memorable part of my life, I only wish I had appreciated it a bit more at the time- I certainly wouldn't have taken as many things for granted.
As the saying goes...'youth is wasted on the young'...lol.
Colm Feore portrayal of Linoge gives me Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter vibes.
Great review! I remember watching Skeepwalkers on the big screen. The second half just ramps it up to 11. Madchen Amick was my big crush from the get go. I believe she is The litmus test of whether a dude’s straight or belongs in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in the BDSM dungeon with that gym coach and the not-so straight protagonist. Quote of the day: ‘….people should keep their hands to themselves, here’s yours…..’
Madchen is such a babe, no wonder she was one of Lynch's muses. Sleepwalkers is highly underrated.
I love the cats being the sleepwalkers kryptonite! One, because I love cats and two, Clovis! I love that cat
Sleepwalkers was my favorite as a kid, I now have my own cat named Clovis although she's more of a cuddler than an attack cat
Hug her for me Hannah, l miss my kitty! 🐈⬛
Totally typical for teens to be into grave rubbing. It's what all the kids on dates are doing these days.
For my money, Needful Things is THE all-time underrated S.K. gem.
I'm with you on this one. Selling the dreams of misfortune.
I just received my 4k bluray of Needful in the mail.
@@blackirish6868yeah Kino did a great job on that transfer
I’ve been trying to watch every single Steven king project and I would agree. Needful things bangs
It was rushed.
Should have been more character development.
Storm of the century and rose red are easily my favorite of kings. I watch them every October along with the highly underrated Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Phantoms is underrated. Good book too.
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo!
Storm of the Century is probably the second best Stephen King mini-series, though it's generational blasphemy to say it's better than either IT (1990) or The Stand (1992?). Rose Red is schlocky wonderful goodness. Phantoms is the only Dean Koontz book I actually enjoy, and the movie is just good fun.
I just saw Rose Red again last week, never gets old. Also funny how it started out as a joint with Spielberg called The Haunting but then King left the project, adapted his script et voila: Rose Red 😅.
Uh!! I love Phantoms too!
Totally agree with you in this
I watch Storm of the Century at least once every single winter - it's a perfect flick for a snowstorm.🌬️🌨️❄️
We agree
Secret Window is one of my favourite Stephen King adaptations and it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I know it's really predictable and cliché but it's still pretty entertaining and I never get tired of watching it.
Dolores Claiborne is also super underrated and it’s actually Kathy Bates's favourite role.
Doctor Sleep is the best SK adaptation since The Mist. It perfectly reconciles King's novels and Kubrick's adaptation.
Dolan's Cadillac is not your typical SK story but it's still a great slow paced revenge thriller. Christian Slater was amazing.
I agree with all of this.
I loveTim Daley in this role. What a performance to play this genuinely good guy with some complexity that’s revealed by this huge dilemma that he faces all on his own.
Maybe I’m in the minority but some of my faves were Cats Eye, Thinner, and Secret Window.
But my list can go on and on. Pet Sematary, Dolores Claiborne and Silver Bullet.
Thanks dad for giving me the Night Shift short story collection when I was 8, and starting my intense love of horror.
I loved Cats Eye when I was a kid.. my favorite segment was when General fought the Troll
Silver Bullet, Graveyard Shift, Night Flier, Sometimes They Come Back, The Mangler and Skinwalkers...are some of personal favourites, and in my opinion they are far more enjoyable than the recent CGI heavy "IT" films that were very successful, but for me, you can't beat earlier films, they have a charm that (most) modern horror films lack.
I love Night Flier. It's one of those movies that I could never get sick of watching.
I love The Night Flier. Even with Julie Entwisle's questionable acting. And Miguel Ferrer was always a treat to watch.
@@MrPhilm00r I thought Julie Entwistle was phoebe cates
@@davidcoombsbestmegadethalb9780 they definitely resemble one another. Especially how Julie looks in this movie.
@@MrPhilm00r exactly uncanny likeness still love the night flier Miguel Ferrer RIP WAS A GOOD ACTOR
My thoughts on the Storm of the Century was that Linoge didn't have power over the weather but had a kind of omniscience so he could see when the storm would end. He was pressuring the townspeople to choose not because he had control, but because he was bluffing. If the storm ended before he got the child then the townspeople would never have chosen and he would have nothing at the end.
Damn now you got me wondering 🤔
This was always my interpretation. Linoge was not as powerful as he makes them think. If they had stood firm and refused to choose, he would have lost and left to find another town to get his protegé from
The mangler I think is a great instance of showing how camp doesn't need to have its tongue in its cheek and how earnesty doesn't need to be so self serious.
Stephen lives right down the road from me here in Bangor, Maine. I played basketball against his son well over 30 years ago in a grade school all star game. Stephen shows up looking the part dressed down and wearing them old school colored converse. He's a strange dude but interesting for sure. About every time I pass by his place there are people camped in front of his house taking pictures. Pretty funny
Thank you for realizing that Andre Linoge is NOT truly evil. You got it right there -- how much do we really care about the life of an insect? I love how he calls them all Mayflies when telling them in the Town Hall that, even though he is "old and sick", he will still be alive long after all but the youngest of the kids -- maybe the teenager, if he's lucky -- has long since died. But, he also shows them a level of compassion and remorse. Colm Feore plays him as an entity that honestly is doing what he does not because he enjoys it (however, I think he really does enjoy telling Mike and the town about the truly deplorable humans they live with, like the pedophile priest), but because he has to to make sure what he is survives past him. I've always thought that it's an entity vital to the survival of the Multiverse. Some kind of being akin to The Watcher in Marvel Comics -- a chronicler of our particular universe that must exist. It's not really evil, it's not really good. It just is, and has to be, regardless of how it's maintained. I've also always thought that he let's Mike see Ralphey at the end as a means of reward or compassion. Mike was the one person in the entire town that stood up to him, and fought him tooth and nail, even though it was futile. He probably earned Linoge's eternal respect. Linoge saw the inherent goodness of him, and wanted to reward him with one last visit to his son. To let him know that he was alive, and would be so for millennia. However, because Linoge is not human, he ended up causing a ton of pain without considering it, because again -- how much do we really value the life of an insect?
Storm of the Century was an amazing mini-series, I remember watching when it was released and it's held up well. Sleepwalkers is also a really fun movie, but then again anything with Machen Amick is watchable.
It's so ironic: In 1995, Ted Levine co-starred in what is arguably one of the greatest crime dramas ever made, Michael Mann's "Heat", starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, etc...and then he also appeared in this stinker "The Mangler". However, for all its flaws, I like it.
Talk about an up-and-down year.
The ending of the storm of the century hits me really hard, still today sometimes I think abouit it.
Sleepwalkers is my favorite King movie. I watch it all the time
I've got my copies of Storm of the Century, Kingdom Hospital, It, and The Stand. I'm still tracking down the rest!
I would love to see a film adaption of ROSE MADDER.
How come no one ever talks about The Langoliers? It’s such a fantastic movie and I’m not sure a lot of people know about this tv movie adaptation
I was just about to comment about how there's no love for the Langoliers. I loved it as a kid
I have a weird Storm of the Century memory, of the narrator mentioning that "it's the interest that breaks your back" during the "pay as you go" section, but I might be remembering it from something else, as it's not in my DVD copy, nor in the book.
Great choice on thumbnail, I'm always clicking on Madchen Amick. Also, my friends and I still say "Give me what I want and I will go away" all the time.
Thanks for giving "The Mangler" it's dues. Love that film!
The fact is - The Shining - is the absolute best Steven King story ever adopted to film and against Stephen King’s wishes and desires (he didn’t want JN, etc) .- His other films might have interesting story / concept / twist yet MOST seem to B produced cheaply.
Night Shift is really cheesy fun. Stephen Macht chews the scenery and the movie has a great vibe with the cotton mill and the crazy summer heat. Also Colm Feore in Storm of the Century is one of my favorite villains of all time. Really chilling.
Sometimes They Come Back and Night Flier are my favs. Tommy Lee Wallace’s IT two-parter is a damn masterpiece too, though.
Wow I forgot about this mini series thank you for this video I'm going to watch it again.
The Mangler. Maximum Overdrive. Graveyard Shift. The Night Flyer. Needful Things. Other King adaptations may be "better" but none were as much fun.
wow I'm letting TH-cam push me through your backlog and wasn't expecting the mangler. As a young child i saw the trailer for this movie and pushed the memory so far back that it literally gave me frequent nightmares until i decided to look up the movie in my early 30's
When that opening theme hits in storm of the century I get instant goosebumps
Only King can pull off writing 3 whole novels, 4 short stories and 1 screenplay about sentient, homicidal machines. And we liked them!
Definitely agree about the need for a bluray release of Storm of the Century, really frustrating it's never had a decent release.
The one thing I really wanted, though: Linoge's wolf head cane. I've done searches over the years and not managed to find one that matches it, I even tried emailing the production company but they thought I was trying to get my hands on the animatronic version and told me to go away...
Storm of the century was my yearly winter snow storm movie with my family growing up. I still have it on vhs. Love it!
I know it's not quite "horror" (it's more of a psychological-thriller family drama), or if you covered it in another video, but Dolores Claiborne is another underrated King film from the 90's. Kathy Bates knocks it outta the park once again. Just thought I'd mention & recommend 👍.
Dolores Claiborne is a master class in film making. In my opinion, it’s even better than Misery. And Misery is awesome!
I LOVE Dolores Claiborne!!👏👏👏 Kathy Bates is perfect (ironically, I just rewatched Misery last night 😉)
Need I add the episodes of tales from the darkside and monsters, sorry right number and the moving finger respectfully. And for underrated miniseries I like storm of the century, rose red and kingdom hospital
Storm of the Century was the Best "Live in SIN let them In!"
SILVER BULLET. No doubt.
Storm of the Century! Definitely underrated
As an avid King's consumer (both books and films/series) I need to say that I've seen all of this jewels, being my faves in this order
1- Sleepwalkers
Because is more of solitude and survival and how toxic a relationship can became on those circumstances (on the sleepwalkers side) and need to be seen by their peers no matter if she's already accepted by them (on the final girl side)
Is a conplete study on those characters
2- Storm pf the century
It's all about how it only take a vulnerable thing to someone take the power and lead you to a path of despair, and it will be all about will and moral.
3- The mangler
Is all about ambition and doubtful morals. How much are people holding onto something that make them suffer to achieve a goal.
Either way, this one is not bad, and is a fun watch.
Need more of adapted King's work videos!!
storm of the century is like the best mini series ever made
Always loved this film! Great episode 👍
Storm of the Century is my favorite Stephen King Made for TV Movie! It just sends you back in time. I live in New England and every year I wish for a snow storm so I can watch this and The Thing 😂 perfect mood setter.
Have to say all of theses movie and miniseries are really great. Amazing how well kings stories translated to films
stephen king probably thought, being eaten by a folding machine is so horrible, it's basically a horror story
I love Sleepwalkers beyond sanity. Alice Krige is magnificent and Ron Perlman, and God I love the cop and his cat Clovis🤗🥰😍Edit and l LOVE the cats! Not the dead aspect, the spooky star aspect. And Enya’s Boadicea’s music as well. The cats are such a defining aspect of this film, together with Alice dancing with Brian Krause. I think it’s interesting how the special effects make up resembles the look they gave Ron Perlman in Beauty and The Beast, the 1980’s tv series.
I really liked sleepwalkers... And honestly I still remember it, like I saw it yesterday... ❤
The ending of this is totally chilling. Mad props.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This was a great video, just discovered your channel! I'm from New England and grew up with a friend and neighbor named Buster. In our Massachusetts accents, it was always pronounced like Busta Rhymes. Hearing the actress in SOTC say "Bustahhhh!" cracked me up. She tried, poor thing.
Welcome aboard! Always love the hammy Main accent
I've watched the Storm SO many times, I feel like I know those people and lived on that island.
I think "Storm" influenced "Midnight Mass".
Storm of the century is easily his best miniseries. It’s also one of the best overall adaptations. It’s excellent. Sleepwalkers is fun and campy. The Mangler sucks. I couldn’t even get through it.
Great mini series movie. Saw it when it came out on T.V. Storm of the century.
I would’ve loved to have seen Storm of the Century as the final King entry on laserdisc. Almost every adaptation of his exists on the format (except Quicksilver Highway), it could’ve made for one amazing final boxset…😊
I love Sleepwalkers, it’s cheesy, but very enjoyable and rewatchable
I like the idea of a world saved by cats 🐈
I would up this video 30 more times just for mentioning Ted Levine's detective performance in The Mangler. That movie is a certified blue ribbon, chefs kiss B movie. if you wanted movie this Halloween that really isn't scary so much as gory, that you can have enough emotional distance from to have a good time, or to watch at 420 with a friend.... this is a real treat.
Okay so I remember when this came on TV, it was so scary to me! I live in Maine and the year before we had a massive Ice storm that knocked out power. Road and isolated people from weeks to a few months.
I’m gonna watch the Mangler. I saw that Storm movie back in the day. It was fine, BUT there was so much King being cranked out that it had no chance to be judged on its own.
-- I always thought the “mother and son” weren’t really mother and son. I thought they were just playing roles for their goals. As stupid as this movie is I like how they were able to make them feel they were lonely and maybe even a little bored.
Uh, Bodega Bay is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.... not Puppet Master.
The Night Flyer is awesome! Richard Deez Nuts!
The dark half is another amazing story
Amen, Jo! Tobe Hooper is absolutely an underrated filmmaker! I absolutely love his other King adaptation, 1979's Salem's Lot.
You had me at Storm of the Century!
I'm gonna watch it right now.
to go from playing Jesus to Leland Gaunt is some real range
Such a good movie. It's free here on youtube.
I love Delores Claiborne
Corn on the cop. I loved sleepwalkers as a kid
I dont like remakes, bur I think The Langoliers would be a good one to try. The Tommyknockers too.
I've always liked Sleepwalkers.
I love storm of the century, and i love how ridiculous sleepwalkers is lol
Sleepwalkers is damn near a looney tunes horror movie and I love it the corn on a cob kill is so over the top 😂
@@Bigrico52 hell yea brother, if you like kung fu hustle you should like sleepwalkers lol
@@jonnybarnard8578 Kung fu hustle is top tier love that movie💪🏾
Great choice! Storm is a very underrated gem!
It really is!
Great job Lance.
I love this channel. One minute ago this came out. Man, im blessed
Maximum Overdrive was my comfort movie as a kid...lol
Any movie with Mädchen Amick in it gets an automatic extra point on the dice from me.
Since the first time I saw her in Twin Peaks, I had a crush on her and I don't think it ever went away.
That smile could break the strongest of men🙂
I loved the cast of Sleepwalkers Mädchen Amick and Brian Krause, especially Alice Krige. She stole every scene she was in. They're all three so goregous and talented. I know it was a campy movie but the actors were awesome.
The Dark Half is underrated.
I love most of the Steven King movies, sure some of it is goofy but it got heart.
Sleepwalkers is a fine film. Cheers
The Mangler, such a Good and Fun movie. A Low Budget Underrated GEM in my opinion.
Agreed, the Basic Premise is indeed Outlandish and even Seemingly Silly.
But its really the Characters that make this movie what it is and that i think is because Tobe Hooper wanted to have Fun with this. A Silly idea but Figured out and Taken Seriously. And that's the point of Opportunity for the Suspension of DISBELIEF to kick in where the Story and Characters get to shine.
Here's what i remember about the film Then vs Now and why i think it would perform Better today. Not by a whole lot but it Could get a more Cult following if given a chance.
The Core part of the Story is twofold, Corruption and Redemption.
One character "falls to the dark side" by the end and our Detective gets a form of Redemption by Facing his own Demons by facing the Evil of Corruption and the Mangler itself.
Yes, by the end the Mangler is back operating like nothing happened to stop it but...the Detective is able to Leave the town, escape the Corruption and essentially save his soul.
The dialogue was Fantastic throughout and you really felt the connection between hardigan and his only 2 friends.
Anything will a sequel to this is to be Avoided, pure waste of time.
Absolutely love Storm of the Century!
i stopped being able to read king as an adult because his writing is poor but i love his storytelling and i love "bad" movies so the king adaptations are some of my fav repeat watch horrors, sleepwalkers was a fav growing up.
And like that, he inspires us to improve! 😁
My husband and I really loved this one. I was completely devastated when I found out what he actually wanted. Feore was amazing as the villain. It really made me think what I would do if in that position.
The dark half was a great film highly underrated
I’ll champion The Dark Half any day. Super underrated.
thank you ❤
Guess it must be a “generation” thing….. I was a teenager in the 90s…. When we got cable in the early 90s, we got the monthly TVGuide and would just highlight any movie labeled as horror/Thriller/Suspense/Sci-Fi and tape it on VHS…. So I watched all these…. I particularly loved Sleepwalkers….
Bodega Bay is the best place ive ever went camping.
“The Stand”
I've always been ashamed of liking Sleepwalkers. I can't believe I'm not the only one.
Am I the only person who liked "Maximum Overdrive"? I know you weren't talking about it here but I enjoyed it for just how campy it was.
Desperation needs more love
Yes It's Officially October And As Long As Stephen King Is Concerned He'll Keep Scaring Us Out Of Our Pants For Years To Come.
Madchen Amick ❤❤❤
Madchen Amick FTW. ❤
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