The greatest movie ever made..!

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I really wish they would have visited places that had real snowstorms instead of just introducing Hollywood-style soap-flake storms into this Stephen King´s masterpiece of a film. You can clearly see the fake soap-flakes on the clothes of the actors. Especially the ones wearing dark clothes. And never once do you see the "snow" melting off of the faces or clothes of those that have entered a house. It is so fake that it detracts from the whole feeling of the village being enveloped by snow. Great film and all and one of my all-time favorites but they really could have done it more justice with realism regarding the weather portion, which was the main theme of the movie.

One of the best TV-shows of all time. Yes i know..but that is the way i feel about this one.... it has all the parts needed to build up the right amount of suspense. I just love the atmosphere.... On an island, the weather and so on... Great acting and great story line.. You don't want to miss out on this one..!!

There are a few movies out there that you forget about after a day or two. Then there are others that stay with you for days, weeks, even months after viewing them. This is the kind of movie that will stay with you long after you watch it, and one that you will not forget about. The history of film is filled with iconic images and scenes. The scene where the parents stand in a line picking stones out of the bag at the town hall is an image that I've remembered fondly since I first saw this on TV back in 1999. My brother recently bought the DVD and I decided to re-watch it last night to see what I thought of it now that I'm older. Oh my God, it was worth the watch. Tim Daly's performance as Mike Anderson, the tragic father, gave me chills. The ending is tragic, chilling, and extremely memorable. It's depressing too, but in a good way. It's by no means a bad ending, it's THE perfect ending to this mini-series and to see what happens to the town after everything is all said and done is chilling. And the long length works as a benefit to us because we as the viewers develop a connection to the characters and to see what happens to our hero, Mike in the end carries HUGE amounts of emotion and sorrow since we already developed a connection with him. He was the town's hero, the leader. In the end, tragedy strikes him hard and it makes it that much more painful and sad to watch.I highly recommend this at least one viewing. The characters are very believable, the storm is horrific, and the villain is not of this world. I've heard people say that it's a bad thing that you never know what or who exactly Linoge is. But that's a good thing. It adds mystery to his character and makes him that much scarier. In a few years, I'll give it another viewing so I can soak in all the emotion again and make believe I'm feeling it for the first time. Highly recommended for ALL movie fans.

Spoilers Alert! Spoiler Alert! I liked Stephen King's earlier works. This mini-series has a slow pace at times that it gets frustrating. I didn't watch the film with Stephen King's commentary--I often find commentaries distracting from the film or television program. Anyway, this four mini-series takes place in an isolated island off of Maine where you need to get a ferry ride across to get there. Much like King's works, it's set in Maine on an island called "Littletall." Anyway, a massive blizzard takes over the Northeast especially New England and everybody evacuates to the town shelter. A mysterious evil stranger played by Colm Feore has come to town and wants something but doesn't spit it out until the fourth hour. Tim Daly's Mike Anderson character is the only one with any scruples in that town. I don't know why an innocent child needed to be sacrificed in order to send Feore's Linoge away. Couldn't he have settled for an adult? Anyway, I disagree with the ending of the film and am troubled by Linoge's character--what is he? why does he have power? where did he come from? Those questions still remain unanswered after four hours of viewing. I wouldn't have voted to send a child away with this monstrous creature no matter what even if it meant certain death for the rest of us. I was deeply troubled by the town's insistence in sacrificing one child for the rest of them. In my opinion, the town agreed to a soul murder of one child in order to save the rest from Linoge's evil manipulations and tricks. Only one person stood up and lost against him. Linoge took a sleeping child away to hell. That child was pretty much spiritually dead then and only a physical vessel to Linoge's plan. Linoge knew the town would comply after his destructive behavior.