Atiqul Gony After a terrible car accident a school teacher wake up five years later to discover he has physic ability.

Ivan Lalic Psychic powers are one the more often dealt subjects in the horror and SF movies, so the Cronenberg's flick about the man (Walken) that wakes up from a coma with a possibility to see the future through a series of flashbacks. As you can already guess, those predictions aren't the nice ones, so main character soon finds himself trying to utilize his new set of skills to stop a terrifying outcome that can affect the entire country and the world. What separates ''Dead Zone'' from the majority of such scripts is the end and a smooth directing and build up of tension characteristic to muck more ''serious'' genres. ''Dead zone" is one of those true '80s horror/SF/fantasy genre mainstream gems.

John Brooks As mentioned a little bit everywhere, it's seldom you find a good film adaptation of a Stephen King story. I have not read the book, but this certainly is a very good film. King + Cronenberg seems a strong combo.Christopher Walken plays a romantic lead character, one with ultimately the burden of truth and everything that tragically comes with that. Overall there is a romantic, atmospheric feel to this piece and the horror elements are very subtle, if not faintly incorporated into the mix.It's a powerful film, visually memorable for its romantic purity, and its message is quite clear really when one thinks about it: the gift or curse of foresight comes as just a metaphor in that we all really possess that gift and can all act upon what we know will occur. It is the burden of responsibility that we all carry, and attempting to fight evil, the powers that be of a present time, will always result in an erupting violence.8.5/10.

poe-48833 Revisited this one not long ago just to see if my initial impression of it would change; it didn't. Well-crafted but oddly COLD (as are many of Cronenberg's films), THE DEAD ZONE DOES boast one unforgettable scene: the scene where Sheen snatches up the baby to use as a shield. It's a quintessential Political move- especially in this Day and Age. Like it or not, we live in what Norman Mailer, writing in CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS, called "a world whose ultimate logic is war, because in a world of war all overproduction and overpopulation is possible since people and commodities may be destroyed wholesale." THE DEAD ZONE suggests, too, that a Psychological Evaluation of potential Political Leaders might be in order. "Politics," wrote Mailer, "was the place where finally nobody meant what they said- it was a world of nightmare; psychopaths roved." As for World War "Three" (there've been so MANY World Wars, from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan to what-day-of-the-week-is-it?, that it's hard to keep track), said Mailer: "One's own suicide might be lost in a national suicide."