Stephen King's The Tommyknockers Movie Review

Another of King's creepy tales adapted for TV. Bobbi (Marg Helgenberger) and Gard (Jimmy Smits) live in the small town of Haven, Maine (actually filmed on New Zealand's North Island). She's an aspiring writer; he's a fading poet with a drinking problem and a metal plate in his head (this is important). Walking in the woods, Bobbi stumbles over a long-buried spaceship. When she starts an obsessive excavation of the object, it begins to take possession of the townspeople – their eyes shine green, their teeth fall out, and they find themselves inspired to invent crazy machines that shouldn't work but somehow do. The only one in town not affected is Gard. The whole thing climaxes in the ship, when Gard confronts the evil, eponymous aliens. Occasionally silly, seldom frightening, but usually entertaining. AKA: The Tommyknockers.

1993 (R) 120m/C Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, Joanna Cassidy, E.G. Marshall, Traci Lords, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley, Cliff DeYoung, Robert Carradine, Leon Woods, Paul McIver; D: John Power; W: Lawrence D. Cohen. VHS, LV VMK