改编自史提芬京 (Stephen King) 畅销小说人物的 The Dead Zone 是一套集动作、浪漫、超自然及冒险于一身的心理学恐怖片集。 Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall 饰演) 于小镇中过着平凡的生活，本身是自然科学教师的他喜欢向学生们展示出大自然的奥秘，在他身边的除了他深爱的未婚妻 Sarah (Nicole de Boer 饰演) 之外，还有以他引以为荣的母亲。Johnny 本拥有着几乎完美的生活，直至某天他发生车祸，使他一直昏迷不醒为止。 六年后，Johnny 终于恢复知觉及清醒，但他所认知的世界已变得面目全非。除了他的母亲已过身外，他的未婚妻 Sarah 亦下嫁了另一人且生了小孩。但这些事以他来说还不是太重要，因为他竟发现自已拥有一种惊人的 超自然力量，只要他接触到其它人或对象时便会发生。在离开...
Miranda is going ahead with her marriage to Stilson, for all the wrong reasons, and Johnny begs her to keep the faith that he will find a way out for her. It's discovered that Stilson's wedding will be televised on Faith Heritage with Reverend Purdy performing the ceremony. When Johnny has a vision about Miranda being killed afterwords, he and Bruce must race against the clock to try to stop it from happening. Meanwhile, someone has leaked information on the nation's most vulnerable terrorist targets. Johnny and Bruce discover it was Stillson's right hand man/thug Janus whom is aware about Johnny's psychic powers and knows how to be elusive. Johnny and Bruce endeavor to put a stop to Janus' plan... despite not knowing what the plan really is, and are equally unaware about Janus own psychic powers.
