Stephen King’s Desperation (2006)-Very weak screen adaptation. [1]

View company contact information for Desperation on IMDbPro. [2]

Tak inhabits or possesses people or animals and, through the possessed ones, Tak wreaks havoc, seemingly just to exact revenge for having been buried, or just because this spirit is mean-spirited. [3]

The old movie theater and jail within desperation were just as I had pretty much envisioned them when reading the novel. [1]

When they discover a chilling surprise, they must fight for their lives! [4]

Desperation, Nevada has a collapsed mine full of Chinese immigrant ghosts, whose spirits are trapped with TAK until they’re accidentally unleashed. [1]

Tom Skerritt, Ron Perlman, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Shane Haboucha. [5]

While on their way to Lake Tahoe for a vacation, the Carver family is arrested on a lonely stretch of highway after the tires blow out on their camper. [...] The local sheriff throws them in jail in the eerie deserted town of Desperation, Nevada, along with several other unlucky travelers picked up on the same stretch of road. [4]

The key for the success of Desperation is that the viewer feel like Ron Perlman (playing Collie Entragian, the large, strange cop) is believable as one of the more poignant figures of the story. [1]

The mini-series is based on a Stephen King novel. [4]

Director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers), also recruited by Stephen King to remake The Shining, knows how to capture King’s horror aesthetic on film. [1]

Matt Frewer is Ralph Carver, the father of the Carver family, and he is a good guy, if not a particularly courageous guy. [...] As the story unfolds, we find out that the local pit-mining company unearthed a long-buried mine-shaft, and from the mine escaped an evil god or demon or spirit named “Tak”. [...] At the start of the movie, Tak has Deputy Sheriff Collie Entragian, causing Entragian to grow quite a bit and gradually be worn out. [3]

Sources:
[1] Amazon.com: Stephen King’s Desperation: Tom Skerritt, Steven …
[2] Desperation – IMDb
[3] Horror, the supernatural, Good vs. Evil, and a bobblehead …
[4] Stephen King’s Desperation at TV.com
[5] Stephen King’s ‘Desperation‘ – Watch Full Stephen King’s …