I like the way Cronenberg goes out of his way to set up the environment as plain, ordinary, and unremarkable . . . this has the effect of making Walken's abilities seem believable when they'd just come off as silly in a lesser film.
A surprisingly subdued King adaptation.
This review of The Dead Zone (1983) was written by Alec B on 02 Dec 2014.
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