The Tommyknockers
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: May 9, 1993
Metascore
50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19

Critic Reviews

  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Apr 24, 2021
    37
    No one will confuse episodic The Tommyknockers with The Twilight Zone. It relies more on cheap effects than imagination or characterizations. Even the setting is counterfeit; this New England is actually New Zealand. [8 May 1993, p.G1]
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  2. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ann Hodges
    Apr 24, 2021
    25
    To say The Tommyknockers is bad is an understatement. It's awful. [7 May 1993, p.1]
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Chris Willman
    Apr 23, 2021
    20
    The Tommyknockers may not be the lamest Stephen King screen adaptation to date, but it’s pretty close. One of the author’s lesser novels has been dumbed down exponentially for TV and put through a deflavorizer to remove every iota of the black humor and pop-culture satire that usually make even the silliest King sufferable...The personality-devouring aliens of the title seem to have gotten to the folks who made this movie, too.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Apr 23, 2021
    10
    Stephen King gets away with murder. He's not the master storyteller; he's the master story reteller. And recycler. Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, a howlingly awful ABC miniseries, seems to have been stitched together from many a tattered bit and piece.