10 Dark Films For Dark Times

“Populist demagogues like He Who Must Not Be Named aren’t a new thing,” tweeted Stephen King in March 2016. “See The Dead Zone, published 37 years ago.”

Or you could watch David Cronenberg’s 1983 film version, where Christopher Walken gives a mesmerizing performance as Johnny Smith, who wakes from a coma to realize he can see into the future. Worst of all, his former girlfriend has “moved on” and is now a volunteer working for Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen), a senatorial candidate Johnny sees become President and order a nuclear strike against Russia.

If you knew in advance the atrocities someone like Hitler would go on to commit, Johnny asks his doctor, what would you do? When the doc replies that he would “kill the son of a bitch”, Johnny attempts to do just that, setting in motion a series of events that will change the world.