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There are plenty of pleasingly creepy moments in ABC's $35 million blockbuster , The Storm of The Century , the first Stephen King horror movie written directly for TV ( Sunday , Monday, Thursday, 9 p.m.) The small, isolated town of Little Tall Island finds itself under siege from both a brutal winter storm and a sinister visitor, a placid-faced killer with supernatural powers, Andre Linoge.
It is, of course, the juxtaposition of childish amusements and adult ornamentation that makes this list so pleasingly perverse.
He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."
This is a cookbook that's pleasingly shallow and imperfect, just like those of us who are drawn to it.
Individual performances are said to be inspired; the card hall settings are said to be gritty; the dialogue is said to be pleasingly peppered with poker jargon--but the film is deemed "unable to do justice to its potential" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Objections: a sluggish plot and a predictable setup.