On October 21, 1983 “The Dead Zone” was released in theaters! Directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay, by Jeffrey Boam, is based on the 1979 novel of the same title 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. In the novel, the phrase "dead zone" refers to the part of Johnny's brain that is irrep

On this day 42 years ago, The Dead Zone (1983), directed by David Cronenberg, a thriller based on Stephen King’s novel, was released in the U.S. | History of Cinema

Stephen King's The Dead Zone opened October 21, 1983 | Hallowin