Dead Zone, The
Date: 1983
Director: David Cronenberg
Production Company: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Lorimar Film Entertainment
Stars: Christopher Walken, Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Anthony Zerbe, Nicholas Campbell
Location(s): Ontario, Orono, Canada.
Region(s): N. America
Storyline:
Stephen King adaptation: schoolmaster falls into a coma following a car accident and loses the love of his life but acquires new psychic powers, which become a curse. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
Walken and Adams' school: establishing shot. Summitview Public School, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario. Northeast of Toronto.
- Capture 2
- 'Now' required
Walken "sees" his nurse's fire and she rushes home to rescue her child.
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
The wall of Walken's recovery hospital, seen as Lom leaves... Steve Randall found the wall of the Randwood Estate at 176 John Street East, Niagara-on-the-Lake.
- Capture 4
- 'Now' required
Skerritt drives up to a lonely house in the woods.
- Capture 5
- 'Now' required
Skerritt, Walken and Campbell in The Screaming Tunnel passing under a railway line just off Warner Road, Niagara Falls. The tunnel also appears in Limestone Burning and is the subject of local legend.
- Capture 6
- 02 Jan 2024
Nice gazebo. A trap is set... At Queen's Royal Park at Niagara-on-the-Lake. It was constructed for the film, and bequeathed to the town after completion. It was replaced with a permanent structure in 2015: info from Steve/SR.
The permanent structure some eight years later without the benefit of height. With sincere thanks to Bruce for pinpointing and driving me around as many of the various locations as we were able to cover in what turned out to be a very time frame. (RL)
- Capture 7
- 02 Jan 2024
Walken watches on as a scissor murder is about to take place...Queen's Royal Park
No time to enlist 'rent a crowd'. (RL)
- Capture 8
- 02 Jan 2024
Walken is helpless to stop it... Queen's Royal Park/SR
It looks as if at least one tree has not survived. (RL)
- Capture 9
- 02 Jan 2024
Lom outside Walken's house looks at Sheen's campaign poster... 17 Byron Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake: SR
Unusually there was no snow to fully replicate the scene. (RL)
- Capture 10
- 02 Jan 2024
... and enters no17 Bryon Street.
That looks like some new fencing and gate. (RL)
- Capture 11
- 02 Jan 2024
Walken arrives at Zerbe's house, which, as Steve found, is at the corner of Queen Street and Butler Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake.
As can be seen, there is very little clearly visible now to establish and replicate the original capture. (RL)
- Capture 12
- 'Now' required
Walken crosses a wintry street... the Post Office at 117 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake/SR
- Capture 13
- 02 Jan 2024
Panning left... Outside 114 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, now the Maple Leaf Fudge shop/SR
The shop frontage supports the fact that I was in the correct place. (RL)
- Capture 14
- 'Now' required
Statue in a park... Simcoe Park, Niagara-on-the-Lake/SR, which makes the statue one of John Graves Simcoe.
- Capture 15
- 02 Jan 2024
Sheen is ushered away from Walken. Mansion in the background...The large house in the background of Capture 15 is the Prince of Wales Hotel/SR
A clearer and more distinct view of the 'Prince of Wales Hotel'. (RL)
- Capture 16
- 02 Jan 2024
Walken approaches the hall where Sheen is due to campaign to his party faithful... The Old Court House at 26 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake/SR
A little more festive view. (RL)
- Capture 17
- 02 Jan 2024
Sheen arrives outside the hall... i.e. the Old Court House at 26 Queen Street/Steve Randall once again doing a thorough trawl through the web.
Sufficient 'stand in' crowd to balance the scene. (RL)