Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4115 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-04
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 255 minutes

Synopsis
Stephen King's first original television miniseries ever, STORM OF THE CENTURY is the story of a small town's struggle against an invasive stranger who knows all of their secrets and threatens to harm them if they do not give him what he wants. Ultimately, they learn that he seeks to destroy the village if they do not sacrifice one of their children to learn his black trade.

Customer Reviews

Mini series heaven
Stephen King is the man when it comes to long stories about small town evil goings on. This title having not come from one of his existing books still lives up to the rest of his mini series gems still nothing has quite topped The Stand. This one is stark through and through lending the well hearted good vs evil nature that is so frequent with King stories. However, there are some supporting actors here that are just pants and bring down the rest the main guy for one. The main bad dude is spot on and very sinister. This miniseries took nearly ten years to grace the sales shelves since its airing on TV and it was worth the wait now if they go back and put in some special features this would be the best DVD ever!

Great Entertainment
I was thrilled to come across this title by chance on R2 DVD and available for the price of peanuts. This is an excellent buy - not just for the 255 minutes of entertainment provided by one of Stephen King's more successful TV adaptations, but more importantly because of the excellent transfer on this Warner release. A good many of Stephen King's 4:3 DVD features comprise grainy transfers that don't view well when enlarged on wider format TV's, but this print is very good and can be watched on widescreen TV's under the 'fit screen' option without you even realising that its not a widescreen feature. The feature itself, despite its age, is cleverly filmed, well acted and one of the less scary Stephen King features that all but the very young can enjoy. Nice theme music too. A recommended purchase.

Well made smalltown tv movie
I thought this would just be a run of the mill tv mini series/movie. In a lot of ways it is most of the cast (except Tim Daly)are typical bit part players and the story is quite run of the mill. However the film is exceptionally well done the characters are believable and nothing is overstated you get an excellent understanding of small town american life.
The plot a strange man arrives, Andre Linoge he kills one woman without any motive and then freaks out several other people. The way he freaks people out is by revealing a guilty secret. He tells everyone that the town manager was sleeping with a prostitute while his mother was dying he reveals that one of the residents is a drug dealer etc he only manages to reveal a comaparitively innocent truth about the local constable (Tim Daly) that he cheated in an exam. Everyone else however is scared not only of his considerable power and knack for making people take their own lives but the chance that he will reveal something about them. This sets the scene for his demand "give me what I want and I will go away" his demand is pretty steep however he wants one of the children as his own. Thus begins the moral argument do they all die to protect one child or sacrifice one child to save them all. As stated before there is nothing spectacular about the story but it is very well performed and certainly doesn't feel like the full four hours.