The Dead Zone
In his way back to home, a young smart teacher, faces a horrible accident that leaves him in a coma for five years and when he awakes, he finds out that he has psychic powers that leads him to see future.
15 November 1961, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
8 April 1971, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
1 November 1962, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
26 July 1934, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 January 1938, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24 October 1920, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
October 07, 2008
An accomplished psychological thriller.
October 06, 2013
[An] engrossing yet strangely unembellished adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller by director David Cronenberg.
January 26, 2006
Cronenberg pulls it off, but you can't help feeling it's a movie in search of a TV series.
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.
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 23, 2004
The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
September 25, 2007
Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
October 21, 2013
The Dead Zone ultimately ranks as one of the best King adaptations to date.
September 25, 2007
By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
