
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...... (Full plot summary below)
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Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
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| Chicago ReaderDave KehrBy no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonDon't let the fact that visible breath and frosty misery take priority over exploding heads and fetus-licking snow you. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeCronenberg's most accessible film. Very good, but not great. |
| Brooklyn MagazineHenry StewartBefore Christopher Walken was a punchline, he was an actor...you get a great sense of how startling Walken can be as a star, of how unusual and unexpected his every choice is, from his turn in this early-career King adaptation |
| Radio TimesAlan Jones[An] engrossing yet strangely unembellished adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller by director David Cronenberg. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakDirector David Cronenberg's sense of pace is acute, the editing by Ronald Sanders is seamless and suspenseful. And, if nothing else, the movie establishes that chills can be generated without explicit gore and violence. |
| Empire MagazineKim NewmanIt has some of that episodic ‘compressed miniseries’ feel which a lot of King pictures get stuck with (the book was later redone as a TV serial with Anthony Michael Hall) but still manages a lot of powerful material. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonCronenberg tells the story with measured strokes and a sure emotional touch as well as nifty blasts of horror. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinA well-acted drama more eerie than terrifying, more rooted in the occult than in sheer horror. |