---
title: 'The Dead Zone (1983)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Cronenberg'
released: '1983-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Science Fiction'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dead-zone-1983'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Dead Zone (1983)

1983 · R · 100 min · Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

The Dead Zone is a 1983 American science fiction thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay, by Jeffrey Boam, is based on the 1979 novel of the same title by Stephen King. The film stars Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe, and Colleen Dewhurst. Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma to find he has psychic powers. The film received positive reviews. The novel also inspired a television series of the same name in the early 2000s, starring Anthony Michael Hall, the pilot episode of which borrowed some ideas and changes used in the 1983 film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Cronenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-cronenberg)
- **Screenplay:** [David Cronenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-cronenberg), [Stephen King](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-king), [Jeffrey Boam](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeffrey-boam)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Kamen](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-kamen)
- **Editor:** [Ronald Sanders](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-sanders)
- **Producer:** [Debra Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/debra-hill), [Dino De Laurentiis](https://cinepixo.com/people/dino-de-laurentiis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Mark Irwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-irwin)

## Cast

- [Anthony Zerbe](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-zerbe)
- [Ramón Estévez](https://cinepixo.com/people/ramon-estevez)
- [Helene Udy](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-udy)
- [William B. Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-b-davis)
- [Martin Sheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-sheen)
- [Ken Pogue](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-pogue)
- [Brooke Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/brooke-adams)
- [Colleen Dewhurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/colleen-dewhurst)
- [Nicholas Campbell](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-campbell)
- [Sean Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-sullivan)
- [Christopher Walken](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-walken)
- [Herbert Lom](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-lom)
- [Jackie Burroughs](https://cinepixo.com/people/jackie-burroughs)
- [Tom Skerritt](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-skerritt)

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