The Dead Zone

Walken has one of his signature roles as stiff-legged outsider Johnny Smith, alienated by the loss of his entire life (...) who foresees disasters wherever he goes.

No other King novel has been better filmed (...), and Cronenberg, who knows how to handle terror, now also knows how to create three-dimensional, fascinating characters.

...is one of Cronenberg's most emotionally warm films, even at the same time as its devastating sense of topographical isolation remains at absolute zero.

Here, Cronenberg's well-known obsessions with the human body, disease, and aberrant sexuality take a back seat to another very personal theme--social alienation, as expressed through unconventional ways of seeing.