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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural.
- 88TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineArguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanIt has some of that episodic ‘compressed miniseries’ feel which a lot of King pictures get stuck with (the book was later redone as a TV serial with Anthony Michael Hall) but still manages a lot of powerful material.
- 80The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinA well-acted drama more eerie than terrifying, more rooted in the occult than in sheer horror.
- 80VarietyVarietyDavid Cronenberg turns The Dead Zone into an accomplished psychological thriller.
- 63Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrIt never really chills you, but then it never insults you, either, and it's more affecting than you expect any film based on a Stephen King novel to be. [22 Oct 1983]
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Dead Zone, from the book by Stephen King, a horror novelist whose prolific output is the scariest thing about him, is academic filmmaking all the way, a crafty Establishment tour de force. [21 Oct 1983]
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrBy no means a bad film, just a disappointingly bland and superficial one.