Cronenburg attempting a little mainstream with this Stephen King yarn and really pulling it off.
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09/25/07
The Dead Zone (1983)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 31 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus:
The Dead Zone combines taut direction from David Cronenberg and and a rich performance from Christopher Walken to create arguably the best Stephen King adaptation.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: David Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream filmmaking is also one of his most satisfying pictures. Adapted from a Stephen King novel, it stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a person's fate just by touching... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen, Herbert Lom
Reviews
Top Critic
This is a welcome straightforward adaptation/improvement of King's original, minus Cronenberg's visceral flourishes.
09/25/07
Top Critic
Cronenberg pulls it off, but you can't help feeling it's a movie in search of a TV series.
01/26/06
Top Critic Top Critic
By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
09/25/07
Don't let the fact that visible breath and frosty misery take priority over exploding heads and fetus-licking snow you.
10/23/06
Cronenberg tells the story with measured strokes and a sure emotional touch as well as nifty blasts of horror.
09/28/06
A gripping thriller done with intelligence. One of the better film adaptations of Stephen King's work.
10/09/05
The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
10/23/04
Top Critic
The Dead Zone is not a story that is particularly suited to Cronenberg's fascination with, and adeptness at portraying, body horror...
01/21/04
Spurred on by Christopher Walken's sincerely moving and warm portrayal.
12/03/03
An unusually thoughtful and engrossing horror flick with a terrific performance by Walken.
05/29/03
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