Review for The Dead Zone - the movie

Director: David Cronenberg Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Martin Sheen Released: 1983 Genre: Mystery- Thriller German Title: Dead Zone - Das Attentat

ITīS ABOUT:
Waking up from a five-year coma after a car accident, former schoolteacher Johnny Smith discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future.

MY OPINION:
Iīll love Cronenberg forever for turning one of Stephenīs novels into something good. Everything fits. Screenplay, actors and atmosphere. The movie makes me cry every time I watch it. The Castle Rock story gives me the creeps. The Ice will break moment too. Only the cutting of many things that are in the book annoys me a little bit. The pace is sometimes too fast. Besides that itīs a great film adaptation.

7/10