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.
Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Biological.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Johnny's access to past and future events drives both his investigations and his attempt to prevent catastrophe.
Following his coma, Johnny gains actual psychic access to past and future events through touch, which qualifies as temporal perception.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
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Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe
19 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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4K UHD
The Dead Zone 4K (1983)
Compare this edition’s specifications
Release date
Dec 19, 2023
Studio
Shout Factory
Resolution
Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region A
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Two-disc set (1 BD-100, 1 BD-50)