Movie Showcase: Night of the Tommyknockers

 

In Cornish folklore, Knockers or Tommyknockers are gnome-like creatures who are supposed to be friends with the miners. 

According to folklore, Tommyknockers like to trick the miners by extinguishing candles and stealing their lunches. But that is all done in a friendly manner. Of course, they never thought to return delicious treats. 

The Tommyknockers would knock on the walls of mines, sometimes leading miners to tin or sometimes, warning them of a collapse. 

It was once believed that the Tommyknockers were spirits of the miners who perished and now roam about to warn the miners should they too suffer the same fate. 

Over time, the Tommyknockers were thought of as evil creatures who liked to attack the miners. 

Most famously, the Tommyknockers was featured in Stephen King’s novel THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, except they were aliens in that. 

Now we get to see the Tommyknockers on screen. 

Produced by Mahal Empire, NIGHT OF THE  TOMMYKNOCKERS will be released soon. 

When the sun goes down, they come out. 

Uh-oh. 

The year is 1870. A miner finds a gold nugget but before he can celebrate, he is attacked by a creature. As if there aren’t enough problems in the town already, a couple of criminals show up, intent on robbing a bank. But they find only bloodstains. Something is up…

The trailer then shows the townspeople caught in the grip of an attack by creatures. The criminals and the townspeople gang together to fight the creatures. But can they survive the night? 

Find out when the movie releases on November 25th on VOD/Bluray/DVD, 2022 through Gravitas Ventures.

 

 Promotional Materials supplied by Sonny Mahal.