The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is a 1983 American science-fiction thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay, by Jeffrey Boam, is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film stars Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe, and Colleen Dewhurst. Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers. The film received positive reviews. The novel also inspired a television series of the same name in the early 2000s, starring Anthony Michael Hall, the pilot episode of which borrowed some ideas and changes used in the 1983 film.
Plot
After having a headache following a ride on a roller coaster in Castle Rock, Maine, schoolteacher Johnny Smith politely declines when his girlfriend Sarah asks if he wants to spend the night with her. As he drives home through stormy weather, he has a car accident that leaves him in a coma. Awakening under the care of neurologist Dr. Sam Weizak, Johnny learns that five years have passed, and Sarah is now a married mother.
More details
| author | David Cronenberg Jeffrey Boam Stephen King |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Maine |
| director | David Cronenberg |
| editor | Ronald Sanders |
| genre | horror political science fiction thriller |
| keywords | adolf hitler awaken car accident castle rock crime scene drown ice hockey isolated kill married pre-emptive nuclear strike president president of the united states roller coaster series of murders soviet union third party trap united states senate ussr world war ii |
| musicBy | Michael Kamen |
| producer | Debra Hill |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films Dino De Laurentiis Company |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Ontario |
| theme | independent political thriller psychological thriller |