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The Dead Zone (1983)
Written by Jeffrey Boam
Directed by David Cronenberg

By 1983, Stephen King already had much of his work adapted for film and television. This year alone, there were three Hollywood movies: The Dead Zone, Cujo, and Christine, with more coming as the decade progressed. The Dead Zone is typical of King in that our protagonist is experiencing extrasensory perception, as many King main characters do. This ability to perceive things beyond average human senses opens him up to horrors, but now how you might expect. Where other King stories allow this breach of the barrier between life & death to create ghoulish supernatural monsters, the evil in The Dead Zone are the privileged. No zombies or ghosts here, just powerful, wealthy white men who don’t care what happens to everyone else.

Crimes of the Future (2022)
Written & Directed by David Cronenberg

The horrors that humanity is wreaking on the planet are being repaid on the species at a rapidly intense rate. Right now, back in the area where I used to live, they are experiencing a heat bubble bringing temperatures into the 100s-110s over the next week. Even here in the Netherlands, we saw a couple days’ bump of warmer temperatures than average temps for the time of the year. The ocean temperatures are rising as the byproducts of our mass production are pumped into the atmosphere, ice caps are melting, and with each passing day, microplastic or other toxins are discovered in overwhelming numbers in our bodies. Against such a bleak tableau, the future of humanity feels quite hopeless. There seem to be two paths: the entirety of the human race works to radically reduce the harm we have caused to lessen the collapse around us, or our bodies are forced to adapt to a polluted, poisoned world.

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Movie Review – The Dead Zone

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