After searching for this movie for months after I read the book, I finally found it, and I have to say I was a bit disappointed. The movie is not horrible by any means, but there was a lot left out from the book. I can't blame Cronenberg for this though. It would have taken 4 to 5 hours to get all of the detail of the book into the movie, but certain aspects of the book could have been focused on more. The one thing that did stand out in the movie was Walken's performance, which was the best dramatic performance of his I've ever seen. So the movie is worth the purchase just for that. Oh, in closing, this is not a horror movie, nor was the book horror. The book was the closest thing to a comic book style story that King has ever written, with the message of "With great power comes great responsibility" dominating the story. Good movie, but a much better book, so go out and read it.
Review of The Dead Zone
