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Roger Ebert gives it 3 1/2 out of 4 stars and opens the review with this:
"The Dead Zone" does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural. Like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," it tells its story so strongly through the lives of sympathetic, believable people that we not only forgive the gimmicks, we accept them. There is pathos in what happens to the Christopher Walken character in this movie and that pathos would never be felt if we didn't buy the movie's premise.Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 90%.
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I remember this film. Stephen King always come up with some fascinating ideas. :)
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DeleteI think they made a TV series from the Stephen King book starring Anthony Michael Hall. I never saw the movie, but I really liked the series.
ReplyDeleteI never watched the tv show. Googling, I see it lasted 6 seasons, so I'm surprised I've never seen any of them.
DeleteLove Christopher Walken and this was one of the good Stephen King stories. (Obviously I prefer his stories with just people and no monsters--even though several of those leave you hanging, too.) I saw most of the later TV series, too, and it was pretty good. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree you can't go wrong with Walken. I've never read the story or seen the tv series. I may need to check it out since you and Elizabeth both liked it.
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