The Tommyknockers
The Tommyknockers Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.6 |
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"Small-town King horror gone gloriously, cheaply off the rails"
A small-town writer stumbles on a buried object in the woods that turns out to be an ancient alien spacecraft, and soon everyone nearby starts acting strange, inventive, and increasingly inhuman. Based on the Stephen King novel, this two-part TV miniseries leans hard into campy small-town horror and body-horror weirdness rather than dread. The pace is slow and the effects are dated, but there's a certain earnest, so-strange-it's-fun energy running through it, carried mostly by committed lead performances trying to sell some truly odd material.
the gleefully weird practical effects and committed performances selling genuinely bizarre material.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Part 1 | 5.8 | 162 | 88 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Part 2 | 5.6 | 153 | 93 min |