THE DEAD ZONE

David Cronenberg casually delivers one of the best Stephen King adaptations of all time. Waking up from a five-year coma after a car accident, former schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) discovers that he can see people’s futures and pasts when he touches them. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician (Martin Sheen), he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future. In a filmography filled with disgusting vile images oozing with drippy flesh, stomach/armpit death orifices, car crash orgasms, and bubbling pus, the finale of THE DEAD ZONE is perhaps Cronenberg’s most resonant.