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The Tommyknockers (1993)

Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Something wonderful is happening in Haven. Pray it doesn't happen to you.

Overview

A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

  1. Stephen King

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Jimmy Smits

    Jimmy Smits

    Jim 'Gard' Gardner

  2. Marg Helgenberger

    Marg Helgenberger

    Bobbi Anderson

  3. E.G. Marshall

    E.G. Marshall

    Ev Hillman

  4. William Johnson

    William Johnson

    Elt Barker

  5. Joanna Cassidy

    Joanna Cassidy

    Ruth Merrill

  6. John Ashton

    John Ashton

    Butch Duggan

  7. Allyce Beasley

    Allyce Beasley

    Becka Paulson

  8. Robert Carradine

    Robert Carradine

    Bryant Brown

  9. Annie Corley

    Annie Corley

    Marie Brown

Last Season

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Season 1

1993 | 2 Episodes

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

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A review by Wuchak

7.0
Written by Wuchak on May 8, 2020

_**Something weird is happening in a small Maine town linked to a “cursed” area of woods**_ An eerie force that emanates from an infamous patch of forest causes weird things to happen in a small Maine town. A writer (Marg Helgenberger) becomes obsessed with its origins in the woods while her beau struggles with alcoholism and is perplexed by what’s happening (Jimmy Smits). Based on the Stephen King novel, “The Tommyknockers” (1993) was originally a two-part TV “miniseries,” which just makes it a long movie at three hours. It was inexplicably rated R for (supposed) sci-fi terror/horror &...

Facts

StatusEnded

Networks

  • ABC

TypeMiniseries

Original LanguageEnglish

Keywords

  • based on novel or book
  • ufo
  • alien
  • miniseries