The Dead Zone | | Cast : | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams | | Director : | David Cronenberg | | Studio : | Paramount Studio | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 21, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | August 19, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | Stephen King's "The Dead Zone" | Content
 | School teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a horrible accident. When he awakens from a five year coma, he finds out that he can see a person's future just by making physical contact with them. When the local cops find out about Johnny's new powers, they ask him to volunteer in helping in a murder case. This leads Johnny into more trouble than he wanted. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | If you can see what he sees | Content
| then you know whats comming about years before it happens, or he can see your past like a firework in the dark skies. This along with the shining are one of the few good Stephen king Novels to come to life in a great way.
Johnny Smith(Christopher Walken) woke up out of a five year sleep. He has his friends and a good doctor, Dr. Sam Weizak(Herbert Lom) in his corner. But when he grips the hand of a nurse, he sees what she needs to know, that her daughter is stuck in a burning house. It all ends well, but Johnny has just woke up from a five year nightmare right into one, where he wishes he was rght back in that coma. With his girl, and job gone, his legs nearly rendered usless, headaches getting worse, body getting weaker, and his only positive is to see horryfying truths, it seems as tho his life is going into a downward spiral.
This movie does a excellent job of keeping in suspence and mystery to keep your eyes glued to the very end. Since the suspence is over with after a first viewing, I find it hard to watch a suspence movie over again, unless it's like total recall where action is blazing, so I won't get board. But I watch it sometimes every now and then.
The Dead Zone is an excellent movie that provides great entertainment as a suspence movie. Anyone who is a fan of Stephen King, suspence movies, or Christopher walken should definitly check this movie out.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | Superb King Adaptation | Content
| During the time when filmmakers were completely embarassing King by making utterly low-quality films out of his stories (Children of the Corn, etc.), David Cronenberg and Jeffrey Boam teamed together to write and direct a solid, engrossing adaptation of king's 1979 novel. Christopher Walken is just fine here as a school teacher who gets thrown into a terrible car accident, by some unlucky fate, and falls into a coma for 5 years. When he wakes up, he has lost everything he once had, but has gained something. The power of second sight is what he gains, ultimately leading to a fatal conclusion. THE DEAD ZONE is the sort of movie that will keep you glued to the screen, one of the many reasons being for Walken's outstanding performance. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | A Mesmerizing Performance By Christopher Walken!!! | Content
| This movie is one of a handful of Stephen King stories which translates well on the screen thanks mainly to a wonderful performace by Christopher Walken who is one of my favourite actors. Mr. Walken plays Johnny Smith , a teacher who has a bad car accident while driving home after a date with his girlfriend. Johhny then spends the next 5 years in a coma and awakes to fimnd a new world and his girlfriend hs moved on with her life and has marrid somebody else. However Johnny now finds himself Blessed (or Cursed depending on how you look at it) with the gift of Premonition.Johnny soon becomes a celebrity but all he wants to do is be left alone and pick up the pieces of his lost life.This movis does not contain the standrad Stephen King Horor but is wonderful to watch as Johnnny tries to rebuild his life. Bravo Mr. Walken!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 24, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent Movie | Content
| Excellent movie, although not everyone's style. Not that it is overly scary or gross, just that it tells the story in an "old fashioned" way -- which is good! The acting is superb -- in such a way that you don't realize it is acting at all (not like the overly dramatic types we see too often). It is just believable enough that it might be true. |
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