The pairing of director David Cronenberg and cinematographer Mark Irwin strikes gold again after their work together on Scanners and Videodrome.
Walken is tender and driven as a man bent on changing the future, while Martin Sheen excels as the focused and maniacal Greg Stilson, hellbent on seeing his vision of the future realized. Visions of tragedy compel him to intervene in the lives of his community.
The 1983 adaptation of The Dead Zone is a colorful, tense, atmospheric film about a man named Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) who wakes up from a coma as a kinesthetic psychic, someone who can receive psychic visions through physical contact with other people. Chase Hutchinsonĭavid Cronenberg, Stephen King, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen-these names should be enough to deem this psychic mystery worthy of any film fan’s attention. It is a remake of a classic of the same name that goes in its own direction, finding both striking visuals and devastating destruction in the excavation of its own depravity. No matter the cost, the story shows how he becomes an agent of self-destruction for himself and others who are unlikely enough to get caught up in his wake. It is a story of greed that sees Cooper doing his very best work, drawing us deeper and deeper into the mentality of a man who wants it all. He is able to turn this into a strong career, though when he gets an offer for more money than he could ever imagine, he will risk it all.
It follows a manipulative Bradley Cooperas Stanton Carlisle, a broken man who discovers he has the ability to con people through mentalism he picked up as part of a traveling circus. A film that deserved far more praise when it first came out for just how well-constructed it all is, Nightmare Alley sees Guillermo del Torocreate monsters that are not otherworldly but rather all too human.
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