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An accomplished psychological thriller.
By no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.
The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
Mr. Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective; his pacing is a little unemphatic at times, but the film's individual scenes are very well staged.
It's both moving and quietly unsettling as it builds towards a forceful climax.
while the episodic structure worked in the novel, it does not translate as well to film
Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
Cronenburg attempting a little mainstream with this Stephen King yarn and really pulling it off.
This is a welcome straightforward adaptation/improvement of King's original, minus Cronenberg's visceral flourishes.
A thing of dark, twisted, ironic beauty.
Stephen King's name may be billed above the title, but The Dead Zone belongs firmly in the good company of the early auteurist "Masters of Horror" period of King adaptations.
Don't let the fact that visible breath and frosty misery take priority over exploding heads and fetus-licking snow you.
Cronenberg tells the story with measured strokes and a sure emotional touch as well as nifty blasts of horror.
Cronenberg pulls it off, but you can't help feeling it's a movie in search of a TV series.
A gripping thriller done with intelligence. One of the better film adaptations of Stephen King's work.
Walken revels in the lead....intriguing
The classic Walken role, by which all subsequent ones are measured. Possibly the best Stephen King adaptation too.
The Dead Zone is not a story that is particularly suited to Cronenberg's fascination with, and adeptness at portraying, body horror...
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