The Dead Zone
When Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma caused by a car accident, he finds that years have passed, and he now has psychic abilities. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
8 April 1971, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
26 December 1921, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8 April 1951, Canada
8 February 1949, New York City, New York, USA
3 June 1924, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2 February 1939, Lancashire, England, UK
26 May 1920, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
3 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
7 August 1963, New York City, New York, USA
24 February 1933, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
26 July 1934, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 March 1945, Canada
31 March 1943, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
25 August 1933, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 January 1938, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24 October 1920, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 November 1961, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
August 16, 2013
Director David Cronenberg's sense of pace is acute, the editing by Ronald Sanders is seamless and suspenseful. And, if nothing else, the movie establishes that chills can be generated without explicit gore and violence.
September 25, 2007
By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
April 27, 2016
Before Christopher Walken was a punchline, he was an actor...you get a great sense of how startling Walken can be as a star, of how unusual and unexpected his every choice is, from his turn in this early-career King adaptation
October 19, 2010
It's both moving and quietly unsettling as it builds towards a forceful climax.
October 21, 2013
The Dead Zone ultimately ranks as one of the best King adaptations to date.
October 07, 2008
An accomplished psychological thriller.
January 26, 2006
Cronenberg pulls it off, but you can't help feeling it's a movie in search of a TV series.
October 06, 2013
[An] engrossing yet strangely unembellished adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller by director David Cronenberg.
September 25, 2007
Cronenberg attempting a little mainstream with this Stephen King yarn and really pulling it off.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective; his pacing is a little unemphatic at times, but the film's individual scenes are very well staged.
September 25, 2007
Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
October 23, 2004
The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
