The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Director
15 horror films in catalog
From the Drain 1967
Crimes of the Future 1970
Shivers 1975
Rabid 1977
The Brood 1979
Scanners 1981
Videodrome 1983
The Dead Zone 1983
The Fly 1986
Dead Ringers 1988
The Nest 2013
The Death of David Cronenberg 2021
Crimes of the Future 2022
Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection 2023
The Shrouds 2025
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore 0
Slow Burn 83
Psychological 71
Supernatural 40
Creature 18
Disturbing 0
Fun Factor 17
Cerebral 57
Survival 0
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