sentences:  "Paste Magazine" has ranked Johnny Smith the sixth out of eight creepiest Christopher Walken performances.In the novel, Johnny Smith is an English teacher in New England, the only slight mar in his past being a fall on an ice rink when he was six years old, in 1953, which he barely even remembered as an adult.After a date with his girlfriend Sarah to a county fair, he is involved in a car crash, which sends him into a coma for four and a half years until May 17, 1975.