"La zona muerta" es una de las mejores obras de Stephen King, adaptada al cine. John Smith despierta de un coma de más de cuatro años y descubre que tiene el poder de prever eventos futuros. Al enterarse de que un hombre malvado se convertirá en presidente y destruirá el mundo, decide que debe detenerlo.
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.