#the tommyknockers

[yourlocalhorrorfanatic]

The Tommyknockers (1993): The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

[spockvarietyhour]

The Tommyknockers (1993)

[thekimdelacreme]

Finished reading The Tommyknockers yesterday.

[ferretteeth]

The Tommyknockers (1987)

[jedivoodoochile]

La actriz Karyn Malchus posando con el traje de la criatura puesto para una foto promocional de “Tommyknockers” en 1993. La fotografía apareció originalmente en un artículo de revista escrito por Gary Wood, en el cual se habla un poco sobre la producción del filme y la creación del traje.

[buffporcupine]

the urge to send all my moots anon asks that say “for want of a nail the kingdom was lost— that’s how the catechism goes when you boil it down. in the end, you can boil *everything* down to something similar.”

[framerate24]

Do We Need A New Version of 'Salem's Lot?'

Apparently there’s a new version of Stephen King’s Salems’s Lot, and according to King it’s quite good though for whatever reason Warner Bros. has not released it (in theaters or streaming). Now I can see why Stephen King is concerned, after all it’s not beyond reason to think that maybe the series/movie will not be released at all, a repeat of what happened to Batgirl. Or Coyote Vs…

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Spoilers for a book older than most of us, but I love what Stephen King does in 'Tommyknockers' when the horrors of the story are both human and monster. The monsters are your neighbours, and yet they are still your neighbours.

It's very easy to read it as a metaphor for fascism combined with runaway technological progress. The book predicts facebook, har har. And creation without intelligence à la ChatGPT.

King is even right on the money with gradual fusion into a hivemind actually making people more aggressive towards one another (and against "outsiders" more than anything), rather than strictly more harmonious.

But I think what I like most is how the transformation, as horrible it is, is embraced, because it makes the people of the town stronger, more skilled, they become more as they are becoming less. They mourn losing their humanity but no more than you mourn your childhood as you grow up.

[owilder]

A man just got killed by a levitating Coke machine.

An adult wrote this.

[veryslowreader]

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

Donnie Darko  

[the-beskar-alchemist]

Every time I think about my desire to write, and not simply wallow in my ideas while lacking motivation, I always wish I had the typewriter from Tommyknockers that will type FOR you.

(When you can't find a decent Tommyknockers typewriter gif so you resort to using something from The Shining)

[plasticfang]

The Tommyknockers

Something is wrong in Haven Falls and it has nothing to do with the thing in the woods behind Bobbi’s house.

[bluevirus]

Tommy had begun to hallucinate; as he drove up Wentworth Street, he thought he saw a clown grinning up at him from an open sewer manhole - a clown with shiny silver dollars for eyes and a clenched white glove filled with balloons.

Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

[impressionism]

You’re telling ME universe that after I spent $$$ at HPB during the holidays (with gift cards thank you) to find TVC, I just randomly come across some at Goodwill (yesterday 8/19) after walking around a horror convention??

Also this goodwill specifically I found other Anne Rice novels like The Mummy and Violin.

Not pictured is QoTD which I had that cover/edition and I’m sure TVL was either missing or purchased. I did buy 4/6 books pictured 🤷🏽‍♀️

[spockvarietyhour]

The Tommyknockers (1993)

[the-dead-characters-society]

it’s always so funny to me when stephen king references himself in his own books.. it feels like