Upon waking from a coma that lasts for five years, a young teacher, who once fades a horrible accident that turns upside down his life, finds out that he has psychic powers that leads him to see future.
Before Christopher Walken was a punchline, he was an actor...you get a great sense of how startling Walken can be as a star, of how unusual and unexpected his every choice is, from his turn in this early-career King adaptation
Director David Cronenberg's sense of pace is acute, the editing by Ronald Sanders is seamless and suspenseful. And, if nothing else, the movie establishes that chills can be generated without explicit gore and violence.
