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<\/a>\nYou may have seen it too. No, it wasn\u2019t Bob Roberts<\/a><\/em>, nor was it The Manchurian Candidate.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
The one I\u2019m thinking about even starred Martin Sheen, long before he even knew he would be President in the television series The West Wing<\/em>. Everybody loved President Josiah \u201cJed\u201d Bartlet back in the day, didn\u2019t we? Jed was even a Noble laureate, as I recall.<\/p>\n Anyway, I said \u201cscariest\u201d so in this movie, see, Sheen was a supporting actor. The star was Christopher Walken, and he was definitely suited for the role of Johnny Smith, in the Stephen King derived thriller, The Dead Zone<\/em>.<\/p>\n Long story short (spoilers, though the film came out in 1983 so who gives a rip?) Johnny, a teacher, got into a car accident that left him in a coma. It being 1983, and all, they actually let him live that way, you know, in the hospital, long enough so that he eventually wakes up.<\/p>\n When he awakens, he discovers he has psychic powers which lets him see into the future. Pretty cool, huh? Except sometimes the future looks awful. Johnny being Walken, guess which way this rolled?<\/p>\n Like here, right before one of his students (Johnny\u2019s a tutor nowadays) goes ice skating on the frozen lake in the back yard of the creepy actor (Anthony Zerbe<\/a>) who always plays creepy bad guys house. Roll tape.<\/p>\n