Videodrome / The Dead Zone

VIDEODROME, 1983, Universal, 87 min. One of director David Cronenberg’s most disturbing, subversive thrillers. While searching for programs to boost ratings on his small cable station, jaded owner Max Renn (James Woods) becomes hooked on an underground TV show, called Videodrome, that may be a genuine snuff video. But tracking down its source proves dangerous as very lifelike hallucinations kick in - skewing Max’s very concept of reality, and new girlfriend and talk show host, Nikki Brand (Deborah Harry), goes missing.

THE DEAD ZONE, 1983, Paramount, 103 min. Director David Cronenberg helms one of the best Stephen King adaptations with Christopher Walken as a young man who receives the gift (or is it curse?) of second sight after a near death accident. Radical upheaval plagues his life as his marriage to Brooke Adams is thwarted, and he becomes involved in helping Sheriff Tom Skerritt track a serial killer.