Spoilers Alert! Spoiler Alert! I liked Stephen King's earlier works. This mini-series has a slow pace at times that it gets frustrating. I didn't watch the film with Stephen King's commentary--I often find commentaries distracting from the film or television program. Anyway, this four mini-series takes place in an isolated island off of Maine where you need to get a ferry ride across to get there. Much like King's works, it's set in Maine on an island called "Littletall." Anyway, a massive blizzard takes over the Northeast especially New England and everybody evacuates to the town shelter. A mysterious evil stranger played by Colm Feore has come to town and wants something but doesn't spit it out until the fourth hour. Tim Daly's Mike Anderson character is the only one with any scruples in that town. I don't know why an innocent child needed to be sacrificed in order to send Feore's Linoge away. Couldn't he have settled for an adult? Anyway, I disagree with the ending of the film and am troubled by Linoge's character--what is he? why does he have power? where did he come from? Those questions still remain unanswered after four hours of viewing. I wouldn't have voted to send a child away with this monstrous creature no matter what even if it meant certain death for the rest of us. I was deeply troubled by the town's insistence in sacrificing one child for the rest of them. In my opinion, the town agreed to a soul murder of one child in order to save the rest from Linoge's evil manipulations and tricks. Only one person stood up and lost against him. Linoge took a sleeping child away to hell. That child was pretty much spiritually dead then and only a physical vessel to Linoge's plan. Linoge knew the town would comply after his destructive behavior.
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