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Mike Anderson, the constable of the isolated Maine island hamlet Little Tall Island, is facing the toughest challenge of his career. Not only is a devastating winter storm bearing down on his community, but it brings with it one Andre Linoge, a sinister stranger. Linoge, who may just be the devil incarnate, has an uncanny knowledge of all of the town's dark secrets, and he uses that knowledge to drive some of the locals to murder and suicide. With each horrific event, Linoge repeats his demand: "Give me what I want and I'll go away." What he wants, however, is more horrifying still.

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Miniseries Stephen King's Storm of the Century

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Chilling performances and an even darker moral dilemma shelter Storm of the Century's somewhat long-winded tale from ever being anything less than watchable.

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  • Genre:

    Horror

  • Network:

    ABC

  • Premiere Date:

    Feb 14, 1999

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Critic Reviews for Stephen King's Storm of the Century: Miniseries

Audience Reviews for Stephen King's Storm of the Century: Miniseries

  • Jan 14, 2019

    Suspenseful, entertaining, and thought provoking. On the surface, watching this movie seems like a bear to watch at over 4 hours in length, but it was intended to be viewed in hour long segments over the course of 5 weeks during the winter (including commercials). This is not a movie at all, its a mini series, much like all of stephen kings made for tv work (it, tommyknockers, the shining [reboot], rose red, etc.). I actually watched this initially in that format with my family and it was a really good format and kept the pacing at a decent clip. To boot, i think i was 12 when i watched this during a New England winter. The movie still holds up and i have watched it in its entirety 6 or 7 times.

  • Jan 08, 2019

    Probably the most Stephen King of Stephen King adaptations. This movie is disturbing and it's twisted and it's overall just going to leave you sitting down looking at your TV screen wondering what the hell happened. Great Miniseries.

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Aug 6, 2020

Storm of the Century contains everything there is to love about good Stephen King. Mystery, monsters and Maine are in full swing here.

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Jan 15, 2020

It is the most effective King miniseries the network has presented. In this genuinely unsettling epic, good and evil face off on a small Maine island pounded by a nor'easter in 1989.

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Jan 15, 2020

The three-night terror fest is the first written-for-television thriller from the prolific Stephen King, and nobody spins a horror yarn better. Like a spider weaving a web, King slowly draws you under his spell until you are powerless to leave.

Jan 15, 2020

King's first original mini-series script is a marathon of communal anxiety with a spooky moral: we are ready to mortgage our children for our own restless comfort.

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Jan 15, 2020

While entertaining at times, Storm of the Century... rises barely midway up the horror scale. If you're looking for a major fright, in other words, look elsewhere.

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Jan 15, 2020

King's first miniseries written directly for TV carries a wicked-chill factor of roughly 30-below.

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Jan 15, 2020

King and ABC have come up with some memorable black magic.

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Jan 15, 2020

The gray-tinged "Storm" repeats itself a bit too much. But it is a psychological grabber. It frightens by mind control rather than with cheap thrills.

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Jan 15, 2020

Classic storytelling. It's Stephen King as spellbinder, gathering us around the prime-time campfire -- enthralling, dazzling and scaring our pants off before sending us to bed afraid to turn off the lights.

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Oct 19, 2019

Storm of the Century has the perfect setup for a gripping story, and King and his collaborators do not disappoint.

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Nov 20, 2018

Storm admirably follows through on its hopeless premise...

Nov 20, 2018

Best of all is Colm Feore's insinuating, understated performance as Linoge, whose unblinking eyes and seductive voice make his words all the more terrifying.

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Nov 20, 2018

It's the same old slogging, soggy spookery, derivative and uninspired, protracted beyond all sense of decency.

Nov 20, 2018

Cut down to a more manageable length, this could've been something good. In its final, ungodly lengthy form, however, it's a total bust.

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Nov 20, 2018

This miniseries is a somewhat hidden gem among Stephen King's 70-plus movies/miniseries...

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Nov 20, 2018

It also earns respect because Tim Daly-who plays the bland good guy constable-is exactly the right level of vanilla...

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Nov 20, 2018

It's edge-of-the-couch good in some spots. The trouble is that it has too many spots. So many that the title should have been changed to "Story That Lasts a Century."

Nov 20, 2018

Craig R. Baxley's stylish direction, some fine ensemble acting from Timothy Daly and others... and especially Feore's chilly performance keep things generally interesting.

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Nov 20, 2018

King should write for TV more often.

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Nov 20, 2018

We benefit from the fact that King is a TV dabbler - he doesn't know you're not supposed to chew over interesting ethical dilemmas about personal responsibility in a piece of February sweeps programming.

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Is Storm of the Century worth watching?

Critic Reviews for Stephen King's Storm of the Century: Miniseries. It is the most effective King miniseries the network has presented. In this genuinely unsettling epic, good and evil face off on a small Maine island pounded by a nor'easter in 1989.

How many hours is Storm of the Century?

Storm of the Century
Running time
257 min.
Production companies
Mark Carliner Productions Greengrass Productions
Budget
$35,000,000
Release
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What was the point of Storm of the Century?

Set in his beloved Maine, though this time on the remote Little Tall Island (also home to Dolores Claiborne), Storm of the Century tackles what happens when a monster comes to town at the same time as a deadly storm, leaving the island residents isolated and fighting for their lives.

Is Storm of the Century based on a true story?

In 2015, Al published "The Storm Of The Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900." In less than twenty-four hours, one storm destroyed a major American metropolis—and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature.