This film spends a lot of time with the parents arguing over how best to bring up their little firestarter. And the camera kind of hinges to the left and you see a fire extinguisher on the wall…īut personally, I think King’s way was better. One of the things that I love is how family oriented is they seem like a real family to me.
Whereas his novel begins with Andy and Charlie already on the run, only indicating in flashbacks the earlier experiences of the family and the fact that Victoria had been killed by the Shop: In interviews, Stephen King approves of the way this new film version spends times introducing the family at length before the mayhem really starts. She’s considered weird because she’s the only kid in school without a phone or a laptop, which her parents are withholding to keep them all off the grid - it seems the Shop’s agents are now trying to hunt the whole family down.Īpparently, they never considered homeschooling. Holding back the fiery “bad thing” is made ever more impossible by the fact that she’s going to school and getting bullied.
These experiments were actually overseen by the Shop, a covert government agency running a program inducing, and attempting to weaponize, supernatural powers.Ĭharlie is introduced as a troubled eight-year-old (played by newcomer Ryan Kiera Armstrong) suffering from nightmares and a weakening ability to repress her fire-starting impulses in reaction to fear, anger, or pain. Rather than being innate, their abilities were induced when, as college students, Andy and Victoria took part in what they assumed were harmless scientific studies involving drug testing. There’s an apparently idyllic family scene featuring young parents Andy and Victoria McGee (Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon) doting over their baby Charlene, nicknamed Charlie, that ends abruptly with the entire nursery going up in flames.īaby-terror in this case makes particular sense, because Charlie has developed pyrokinesis as a result of being born to parents who have psychic and telekinetic abilities. Written by Scott Teems ( Halloween Kills) and directed by Keith Thomas ( The Vigil), the new Firestarter starts off with a promising bit of energy. But this second attempt, produced by Blumhouse and currently playing in theaters, is even worse than the 1984 Drew Barrymore–starring version.
It seems as if somebody ought to be able to make a decent horror movie based on Stephen King’s Firestarter.
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