The Dead Zone [1983]

1. He leans back, puts his hands behind his head, a look of calm, ritual determination on his face, then slowly bends forward until the blades of the scissors are inside his mouth and against his nose. Cut: Cronenberg doesn’t show us what happens next.
2. The nuclear launch device resembles a kind of Radio Shack/Ikea hybrid minilaptop. Complete with sophisticated palm scanner.
3. Herbert Lom: “I’d kill the son of a bitch.”