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1983
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. Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers. The…
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Released in 1983, The Dead Zone is one of those films that sometimes gets overlooked when people talk about the best Stephen King adaptations. That is a shame, because it is an excellent movie and one of the strongest films based on King’s work. It is not just a horror film. It is also a drama, a thriller, and at times even a tragedy. The film was directed by David Cronenberg, which may surprise people who know him…More
Works of Stephen King are the clearest examples of good literature being basis for bad or mediocre movies. The most popular and influential contemporary horror writer in America had seen almost all of his works adapted either for films or for television. But in most cases, all those works were mediocre, disappointing at best, or sometimes even downright awful. Not even the talents of reputed directors like Carpenter…More
I think that most people can agree that we like Christopher Walken and that he is one of the more accomplished and celebrated actors of the past 40 years. Although I was too young to watch this movie in the early 80's I recently watched this and it stands the test of time pretty well. Johnny Smith (Walken) is a relatively normal dude: He is a school teacher in Maine and has a girlfriend that he plans to marry. After…More
