The Dead Zone
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Oct 9, 2026
StanGUEST
That's, uh-
Nate LaneHOST
I was gonna name three people at once, and I was like, "Wait." But yeah, no, The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is still amazing.
StanGUEST
Oh, that's a, uh, a, a November election time staple for me.
Nate LaneHOST
[laughs] Oh, I love it.
GinaHOST
Sure
BillHOST
... and The Dead Zone.
GinaHOST
Okay.
ErinHOST
Hmm.
ScottHOST
But on Jeffrey I'll give you some back, uh, some information here.
ScottHOST
We got, before doing, um, Lost Boys, he did The Dead Zone in 1983, or wrote The Dead Zone in 1983.
ScottHOST
And, um, a, a favorite of mine-
JasonHOST
Dead Zone's so good.
Todd SeeleyHOST
Starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, and genre favorite Brad Dourif from a story by John Carpenter.
Todd SeeleyHOST
If this kind of story intrigues you, check out the 1990 film Fear with Ali Shidi, and even The Dead Zone, in which Christopher Walken is able to see murders after the fact by touching the bodies of the victims.
Todd SeeleyHOST
But again, written, the original story by John Carpenter, and this is one of those rare films where John Carpenter didn't actually direct it, but still had a hand in creating it.
Todd SeeleyHOST
Just like with, um, Halloween II, where he co-wrote, contributed the score, produced.
Paul RootHOST
... things, and it looks like...
Paul RootHOST
It's, like, The Dead Zone, if you've ever seen that, the Cronenberg one.
Ben McFaddenHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ben McFaddenHOST
Yeah.
Rich KeefeHOST
Look at this lineup.
Rich KeefeHOST
Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, and Dead Ring- Ringers.
Rich KeefeHOST
I mean, The Fly, Dead Zone, and Videodrome are insane.
Rich KeefeHOST
I don't know if I've seen Dead Ringers.
EricHOST
Okay.
EricHOST
I'm gonna pick a 1983 film directed by David Cronenberg, starring Christopher Walken, and it's called The Dead Zone.
EricHOST
Uh, I watched this last year, uh, with my wife, and it is everything I love about Christopher Walken.
EricHOST
It...
EricHOST
I mean, like, every David Cronenberg film is kinda sci-fi-y and it's kind of a movie mind melt, uh, as our podcast name is.
EricHOST
And, uh, this one is really fun.
EricHOST
Uh, The Dead Zone is kinda like a part of, um, Christopher Walken's brain that is damaged and, uh, he becomes, like, psychic.
EricHOST
And- Also, I, I don't, I, I would say that this film is almost like kind of adjacent to like Taxi Driver.
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
So, um, uh, and he had already made some Stephen King movies.
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
He had already made The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen, uh, Firestarter with baby Drew Barrymore, Cat's Eye, which I've never seen, which is like an anthology-
Brodie KerrkillenHOST
Okay
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
... um, and Silver Bullet, which is a werewolf movie with, uh, one of the Coreys is in it.
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
Um-
Brodie KerrkillenHOST
What was the first one? Sorry.
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
The Dead Zone.
Brodie KerrkillenHOST
The Dead Zone, I've heard of that.
ChadHOST
You have Silver Bullet.
ChadHOST
I tried to just leave it to one, and I went with David Cronenberg's 1983 film, The Dead Zone, with Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt.
ChadHOST
Five years after a traffic accident that left him in a coma, a man awakens to discover that he has the ability to foresee future events and even prevent tragedies from happening.
ChadHOST
Will these new abilities prove to be a blessing or a curse? Love Cronenberg.
ChadHOST
It's Cronenberg adapting Stephen King.
ChadHOST
The eighties was great for this because in 83, you had Cronenberg adapting the dead zone and Carpenter adapting Christine to Titans of their genre, adapting a Titan of his genre to, very cool shit and cool little tie in with the movie we're talking about tonight.
ChadHOST
Martin Sheen pops up in both the dead zone and fire starter.
ChadHOST
And honestly, there was a part of me where I'm like, is he playing the same character? But obviously he's not, but there's a, they're, they're very similar because one's 83, one's 84.
Hans UtterGUEST
He did the movie Scanners, he did The Fly.
Hans UtterGUEST
Um, he did, uh, The Dead Zone, Crash, and some other very kind of disturbing, uh, movies.
Hans UtterGUEST
But, um, basically, so this guy is a TV producer, Channel 8311, right? So he's with Channel 83 Civic TV, which is a interesting name, right? For a sh- a sort of underground TV station that's basically broadcasting softcore pornography.
Hans UtterGUEST
Um, Civic TV.
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