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Oct 21, 1983 · The Dead Zone: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom. A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
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- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- David Cronenberg
- 1983-10-21
The Dead Zone is a 1983 American science-fiction thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay, by Jeffrey Boam, is based on the 1979 novel of the same title by Stephen King. The film stars Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe, and Colleen Dewhurst.
The movie is based on a novel by Stephen King and was directed by David Cronenberg, the Canadian who started with low-budget shockers ("The Brood" "It Came from Within") and worked up to big budgets ("Scanners"). It's a happy collaboration.
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The Dead Zone combines taut direction from David Cronenberg and and a rich performance from Christopher Walken to create one of the strongest Stephen King adaptations. Read Critics Reviews
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- David Cronenberg
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- Christopher Walken
Stephen King. Novel. Jeffrey Boam. Screenplay. Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.
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Oct 23, 2006 · David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone is one of the Canadian auteur’s most emotionally warm films, even at the same time as its devastating sense of topographical isolation remains at absolute zero.