The Dead Zone (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983) As Stephen King literary adaptations go, 1983’s The Dead Zone is one of the best ones you’ll see. King’s onscreen adaptations always been tumultuous and divisive at best-until the recent King-aissance. Despite the recent rise of interest, I do believe this is one of his better ones. Why, you may ask, do I think that? David Cronenberg’s taut direction and Christopher Walken’s incredible performance are the main culprits. Despite a few small lulls in the story, I was hooked from the beginning to end. This movie is a genre film. Because the characters are people, I became attached to, I forgot the premise had a sci-fi/fantasy base. That is how you know that the movie is actually working. Written by Jeffrey Boam and directed by David Cronenberg, this is Cronenberg’s first foray into “big-budget” filmmaking per se. He has a weird style that people loved especially after his earlier films Scanners and Videodrome . His fans thought he became a sell out whe...