A radiation-choked town swallows an entire platoon before the opening credits finish in Dead Zone, director Hank Braxtan's 2022 action-horror hybrid.
What is Dead Zone about?
Sent in to contain a threat large enough to endanger humanity's survival, a squad of soldiers descends on a town poisoned by radiation and finds the contamination is the least of what's waiting for them. Dead Zone leans on that mission-gone-wrong shape, stacking horror-style dread onto a military framework as the unit's numbers thin and the objective shifts from containment to survival. Runtime stays lean at 83 minutes, and the film moves fast between combat and creeping tension rather than lingering on exposition.
About the cast
Michael Jai White and Jeff Fahey anchor the ensemble alongside Chad Michael Collins, Whitney Nielsen, Antuone Torbert, Tarkan Dospil, J. Michael Weiss and James Markham Hall Jr., with Hank Braxtan directing.
Context & significance
Braxtan works in the low-budget genre space where a contained setting and a small unit of soldiers do most of the heavy lifting, and Dead Zone follows that formula: one location, one mission, and a threat that escalates once the radiation zone turns out to hide more than fallout. The mix of action and horror beats gives the film two engines to keep the pace moving across its short runtime.
Watching Dead Zone on Ktime
Dead Zone is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking audiences follow the squad's mission in their preferred format. A free K-Time account login unlocks playback, while the film's page can be read without signing in — part of K-Time's Farsi-first approach for Persian-speaking viewers abroad.