The Dead Zone
Christopher Walken plays the victim of a coma which leaves him, when he recovers, with the inconvenient gift of second sight.
He discovers that a candidate for high political office (Martin Sheen) is a ruthless and dangerous man.
The Stephen King novel on which David Cronenberg based this influential film - it shaped a number of US TV shows - is portrayed with a melancholy chill not only because of the midwinter setting in New England, but also because the future that Walken sees looks filled with catastrophe and destruction.
It isn't the most popular, or best known, of Cronenberg's apocalyptic films, but it has a stern control over all its elements and you can see the effect it may have had on later films like The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable.
Most watched News videos
- New video shows Epstein laughing and chasing young women
- British Airways passengers turn flight into a church service
- Epstein describes himself as a 'tier one' sexual predator
- Skier dressed as Chewbacca brutally beaten in mass brawl
- Buddhist monks in Thailand caught with a stash of porn
- Sarah Ferguson 'took Princesses' to see Epstein after prison
- Two schoolboys plummet out the window of a moving bus
- China unveils 'Star Wars' warship that can deploy unmanned jets
- Forth Bridge fireball fall into village streets
- Amazon driver's furious rant about deliveries captured on ring camera
- Melinda Gates says Bill Gates must answer questions about Epstein
- Jenna Bush Hager in tears over disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
