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[[File:Tommyknockers 1993film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Still from ''The Tommyknnockers (1993 film)''...]]

''The Tommyknockers'' (1993 miniseries, sometimes cut into a movie)

==Summary==


Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. An unearthly force hits all but the lover of a writer who has dug up something strange in Maine.

==Details==

* Release Date: 1993
* Country/Language: USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
* Runtime: 3 hr 1 min
* Starring: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Traci Lords
* Director: John Power
* Writer: [[Stephen King]] and [[Lawrence D. Cohen]]
* Producer/Production Co: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuzIe5E-ss link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (mild TV-miniseries-friendly Violence and Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)

[[Stephen King]] has pointed to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]" as an influence, and once can possibly detect hints of "[[The Call of Cthulhu fiction)]]" and "[[At the Mountains of madness]]" in the mix as well, along with elements of ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', ''[[The Forbidden Planet (1956 film)]]'', ''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)]]'', and ''[[The Thing (1984 franchise)|The Thing (1984 film)]]''; King even borrows heavily from his own work, recycling some of his usual small-town Maine stock characters and favorite themes such as alcoholism. However, the single biggest source of material for this film is certainly ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'', which seems to have supplied the majority of this film's better material.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* Brandt Sponseller at Classic Horror dotcom, ([http://classic-horror.com/reviews/tommyknockers_1993 link]) - "The extent to which The Tommyknockers succeeds, and it does slightly, is solely dependent on the strength of King's story, Lawrence D. Cohen's largely passable teleplay, the performances, and Power's passable direction...."

==Synopsis==

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An unearthly, glowing, green force hits all but the lover of a writer who has dug up something strange in Maine: a crashed ancient alien spaceship full of corpses, which awakens psychic powers and folk-tales about hob-goblins in the people living in the small town nearby.
}}

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===

* A "tommyknocker" in British folklore is a kind of [[faerie]], hob-goblin, or poltergeist which lives in mines, playing pranks on miners.

===Associated Mythos Elements===
* fiction: [[Stephen King]], ''The Tommyknockers''
* Location: Haven Falls, Main, near Bangor and Castle Rock

===Keeper Notes===


===External links, See Also===
* See ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'' for a very similar serial/film.

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 * SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)
-[[Stephen King]] has pointed to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]" as an influence, and one can arguably also detect hints of "[[The Call of Cthulhu fiction)]]" and "[[At the Mountains of madness (fiction)]]" in the mix as well, along with elements of ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', ''[[The Forbidden Planet (1956 film)]]'', ''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)]]'', and ''[[The Thing (1984 franchise)|The Thing (1984 film)]]''; King even borrows heavily from his own work, recycling some of his usual small-town Maine stock characters and  favorite themes such as alcoholism.  However, the single biggest source of material for this film is certainly ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'', which seems to have supplied the majority of this film's better material.
+[[Stephen King]] has pointed to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]" as an influence, and one can arguably also detect hints of "[[The Call of Cthulhu fiction)]]" and "[[At the Mountains of madness (fiction)]]" in the mix as well, along with elements of ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', ''[[The Forbidden Planet (1956 film)]]'', ''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)]]'', and ''[[The Thing (1984 film)|The Thing (1984 film)]]''; King even borrows heavily from his own work, recycling some of his usual small-town Maine stock characters and  favorite themes such as alcoholism.  However, the single biggest source of material for this film is certainly ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'', which seems to have supplied the majority of this film's better material.
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

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 * SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)
-[[Stephen King]] has pointed to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]" as an influence, and one can arguably also detect hints of "[[The Call of Cthulhu fiction)]]" and "[[At the Mountains of madness]]" in the mix as well, along with elements of ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', ''[[The Forbidden Planet (1956 film)]]'', ''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)]]'', and ''[[The Thing (1984 franchise)|The Thing (1984 film)]]''; King even borrows heavily from his own work, recycling some of his usual small-town Maine stock characters and  favorite themes such as alcoholism.  However, the single biggest source of material for this film is certainly ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'', which seems to have supplied the majority of this film's better material.
+[[Stephen King]] has pointed to "[[The Colour Out of Space (fiction)]]" as an influence, and one can arguably also detect hints of "[[The Call of Cthulhu fiction)]]" and "[[At the Mountains of madness (fiction)]]" in the mix as well, along with elements of ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', ''[[The Forbidden Planet (1956 film)]]'', ''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)]]'', and ''[[The Thing (1984 franchise)|The Thing (1984 film)]]''; King even borrows heavily from his own work, recycling some of his usual small-town Maine stock characters and  favorite themes such as alcoholism.  However, the single biggest source of material for this film is certainly ''[[Quatermass and the Pit (1967 film)]]'', which seems to have supplied the majority of this film's better material.
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

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 * Director:  John Power
 * Writer:  [[Stephen King]] and [[Lawrence D. Cohen]]
-* Producer/Production Co:  American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
+* Producer/Production Co:  American Broadcasting Company (ABC),  Konigsberg/Sanitsky Company
 * View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuzIe5E-ss link])