Product: The Dead Zone [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
The ice is going to break.
This is a good, quietly somber adaptation of a good, quietly somber STEPHEN KING novel. CHRISTOPHER WALKEN is perfect as the tortured JOHNNY SMITH, a man who, after a five year coma, awakens with second sight. The television series with ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL is decent but lacks the dreary despairation that this film carries and WALKEN's performance blows away HALL's. Not much of a horror film, but a supernatural drama with some tight pacing and a moody sense of dread that puts the viewer in JOHNNY's shoes as he explores THE DEAD ZONE.