Product: The Dead Zone [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 5.0
Sci/Fi Thriller
The Dead Zone (Special Collector's Edition)This movie is going out of print and the only place that I could find it is on Amazon.com. This is the best version and is not the series on TV, which was based on this movie.Christopher Walken plays the heck out of this movie. After a near death accident, and 5 years in a coma, he is given powers to see things that has happened in the past and that which may happen in the future.His visions saves a girl from burning in a fire, is able to help his doctor contact his mother who he thought was dead in WW II, help the police find a serial killer, and is able to prevent a boy he is tutoring from going ice skating which would have led to his death by falling through the ice.The age old question is can a person with these kind of powers intervene into history to change it? The big test comes when Walken decides to use his powers to stop a candidate for the Presidency who is seen as one day going to push the nuclear button. Walken gets these visions by holding a person's hand or from some other bodily contact. Each time he uses his powers, life drains from his ever weakening body.Walken plays the heck out the scenes in which he goes into his visions. A collector's must for I never really see this movie ever being played on TV.