A small village off the mainland is about to receive a huge winter storm. It won’t be just another storm for them. A strange visitor named Andre Linoge comes to the small village and gives the residents havoc. He knows everything about them, and when he tells the truth about one of them, that person denies it. The town constable, Mike Anderson, tries to keep everyone in check with the huge storm and Linoge. Linoge keeps telling the people, “Give me what I want and I will go away”…

Storm of the Century (1999)
  • Rating: (9,492 votes)
  • Taglines:Terror that takes you by storm! » Give him what he wants and he'll go away. »
  • Runtime:240 minutes
  • Director: Craig R. Baxley
  • Countries:Canada, USA
  • Actors:
    (3 episodes, 1999)
    Carson Manning
    Mike Anderson (unknown episodes)
    Tim Daly
    Andre Linoge / ... (unknown episodes)
    Colm Feore
    Molly Anderson (unknown episodes)
    Debrah Farentino
    Alton 'Hatch' Hatcher (unknown episodes)
    Casey Siemaszko
    Robbie Beals (unknown episodes)
    Jeffrey DeMunn
    Cat Withers (unknown episodes)
    Julianne Nicholson
    Ralph Emerick 'Ralphie' Anderson (unknown episodes)
    Dyllan Christopher
    Ursula Godsoe (unknown episodes)
    Becky Ann Baker
    Donny Beals (unknown episodes)
    Spencer Breslin
  • Genres:Horror, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
  • Plots: A small village off the mainland is about to receive a huge winter storm. It won't be just another storm for them. A strange visitor named Andre Linoge comes to the small village and gives the residents havoc. He knows everything about them, and when he tells the truth about one of them, that person denies it. The town constable, Mike Anderson, tries to keep everyone in check with the huge storm and Linoge. Linoge keeps telling the people, "Give me what I want and I will go away"... Written by Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Storm of the Century
  • User's comment:What a story, what a man, what a movie? by danny-418

    "Give me what I want and I'll go away," demands the black-eyed, stocking-capped stranger Linoge (Colm Feore), who appears in a quiet island community on the verge of the worst storm in decades and brutally bludgeons an old lady to death. Tim Daly, the town sheriff and voice of reason and moral strength, locks up the quiet madman, but the deaths pile up as Linoge acts them out from his cell like a murderous mime pulling psychic strings. Stephen King, whose original teleplay is his best work for the screen since The Stand, transforms the sleepy burg into a Peyton Place of guilty secrets and criminal activity ripped from under a blanket of small town normality while the white-out of the snowstorm completely cuts them off from civilization. Director Craig R. Baxley nicely maintains an icy tension while the waiting game goes on, perhaps a little too long, before Linoge finally reveals "what he wants" and the drama turns into a struggle for man's soul in miniature. The more ambitious special effects and set pieces sometimes disappoint but are more than made up for in King's knack for turning the mundane into the macabre (the children's song "I'm a Little Teapot" has never sounded more sinister) and a few brilliantly realized sequences, the best of which occurs when townspeople are literally yanked out of existence while watching the storm. Storm of the Century is one of the most successful translations of King's brand of horror to the screen.


  • Quotes: Andre Linoge: Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, COME ON IN. Martha Clarendon: [Linoge rings Mrs. Clarendon's doorbell. She comes walking down the hall very slowly] Oh, hold on. I'm getting there as fast as I can. I broke my hip last summer, and I'm still as slow as cold molassas. Martha Clarendon: Can I help you?
  • Also known as: "La tempête du siècle" (Canada - French title), "La tempête du siècle" (France), "La tormenta del siglo" (Argentina - video title), "La tormenta del siglo" (Spain), "Az évszázad vihara" (Hungary - imdb display title), "Ektos eleghou" (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), "I kataigida tou aiona" (Greece - video title), "La tempesta del secolo" (Italy), "Stephen King's Storm of the Century" (USA - complete title), "Stephen Kings Sturm des Jahrhunderts" (Germany), "Storm of the century - myrskyn silmässä" (Finland - imdb display title),

  1. Scrapbook Album Collector Says:
    February 23rd, 2011 at 3:55 am

    This is classic Stephen King the way he uses a horror/fantasy tale to expose the nasty side of human nature. In many ways, he reminds me of a modern day Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift – brutally satirizing society while at the same time delivering a real and important moral.

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