Synopsis
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Cast
- Christopher WalkenJohnny Smith
- Brooke AdamsSarah Bracknell
- Tom SkerrittSheriff Bannerman
- Herbert LomDr. Sam Weizak
- Anthony ZerbeRoger Stuart
- Colleen DewhurstHenrietta Dodd
- Martin SheenGreg Stillson
- Nicholas CampbellFrank Dodd
- Sean SullivanHerb Smith
- Jackie BurroughsVera Smith
Recommandations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel. - 80
Empire
It has some of that episodic ‘compressed miniseries’ feel which a lot of King pictures get stuck with (the book was later redone as a TV serial with Anthony Michael Hall) but still manages a lot of powerful material. - 80
The New York Times
A well-acted drama more eerie than terrifying, more rooted in the occult than in sheer horror. - 80
Variety
David Cronenberg turns The Dead Zone into an accomplished psychological thriller. - 63
Boston Globe
It never really chills you, but then it never insults you, either, and it's more affecting than you expect any film based on a Stephen King novel to be. [22 Oct 1983] - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The Dead Zone, from the book by Stephen King, a horror novelist whose prolific output is the scariest thing about him, is academic filmmaking all the way, a crafty Establishment tour de force. [21 Oct 1983] - 50
Chicago Reader
By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
