Firestarter
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident… From TMDB
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60 of 160 · most liked firstAction junkies! As part of the Big Bad Film Fest action extravaganza, I’ll be interviewing director Mark Lester (COMMANDO, FIRESTARTER) after a screening of his berseker buddy cop flick SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO on August 23. Get your tix: www.bigbadfilm.com/showdown
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ Firestarter (1980) by Stephen King was adapted to film twice (1984/2022). The films are regarded as veering from the novel, depicting a more menacing Charlie for a monster movie effect. She is hesitant to kill as book explores issues of trauma & power. 🔥👧❤️🔥 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →We used to have white dog poop, but the Radical Left took that away from our neighborhoods. It was easy to see, just lying there dry and white, like E.T. when they found him in the gutter. The girl from "Firestarter" was in that movie. I thought it was a fantastic film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Firestarter. Back in the 80s it read as kind of a kid's adventure movie. She lost her parents but had a special power. As an adult it's about this guy trying desperately to protect his little daughter from the entire US government, after they already murdered his wife. Fucking harrowing.
positive · AI labelView post →I always hoped that Dave Davis would go onto a bigger things after this, but he has stayed fairly quiet, doing more stints on TV than film. And the director, Keith Thomas, directed the horrible Firestarter remake. (But did co-write “The First Omen.”) #frightclub
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film. 📚= 🎞️ Firestarter by Stephen King #BookSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge @coinneachrooney.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social @marksmusic1977.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social Day 6: A song with the same title as a film or book or tv show The Prodigy - Firestarter (Stephen King novel) youtu.be/Hb9hvRSEel8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Crazy movie trivia: they remade Firestarter a couple years ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jack Magner made two movies, this and Firestarter. Then he moved back to Boston, had a family, and worked in sales for 40 years. Tho he & movie Mom must’ve had a reunion somewhere along the line. #frightclub
neutral · AI labelView post →A modern movie which almost catches this vibe is 2018's Freaks. It's got overt shades of Vincent Schiavelli's man in purple in the 1995 Escape from Witch Mountain remake, fragments of Firestarter, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks_...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s actually from the movie Firestarter
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #stephenkingsunday! I LOVE me some Firestarter, the novel & the film, for everything I mention & I didn’t even talk about its rad Tangerine Dream score! If you've never seen it, I politely request you bump it to the top of your list! #stephenking www.buzzsprout.com/104713/episo...
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished reading the @stephenking.bsky.social classic FIRESTARTER and now I’m rewatching the 1984 movie #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →We have a "what if Carrie was cool" book. And movie. By Stephen King. It stars Drew Barrymore. Firestarter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter’s Firestarter
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe? That recent Firestarter? That was more of a non-event. I thought the Zemeckis Witches movie started strong and careened off the rails pretty hard… Would Harold and the Purple Crayon even count?
negative · AI labelView post →I hated Firestarter even more than I hated Baywatch; it has usurped the title of Worst Zefron Film
negative · AI labelView post →I'd thought the first Stephen King book I read was Carrie, now I realise it must have been Firestarter (I may have had this epiphany before & forgot 🤔). I read it as a kid when the film came out, thinking it was a novelization of the film 🤦. (Another realisation: I've still not seen the film).
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: ‘Firestarter’, dir. Mark L. Lester, 1984. 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →#100HorrorMoviesin92Days Day 16, Movie 33 My ½★ review of Firestarter on Letterboxd boxd.it/aKHgHv
negative · AI labelView post →What to watch this Halloween? CHANNEL 4 is serving up horror from Ben Wheatley & FilmFear [UK]. ‘FILMFEAR’ COLLECTION – STREAMING ON CHANNEL 4 UNTIL 2ND NOVEMBER - ENYS MEN - SMILE - IN THE EARTH - THE LODGE - AMULET - FIRESTARTER - BULL - X - ALONE - WEREWOLVES WITHIN - A BANQUET - THE THING (2011) - THE INNOCENTS - FRESH ‘COMPLETELY BEN WHEATLEY’ COLLECTION – STREAMING ON CHANNEL 4 UNTIL 15TH NOVEMBER - DOWN TERRACE - KILL LIST - SIGHTSEERS - A FIELD IN ENGLAND - HIGH-RISE - FREE FIRE -…
neutral · AI labelView post →Firestarter with Drew Barrymore is a movie with pyrokinesis. Also, I don't see a lot of books in here, but Alan Deal Foster's Flinx series is about a telepath.
neutral · AI labelView post →I definitely read Firestarter because I knew Drew Barrymore had been in the movie (I didn't actually see it till later) and I really identified with her, as a little kid. We're about the same age, & I'd seen E.T. in the theater.
neutral · AI labelView post →But also, I rewatched this movie as an adult, and could not understand why *this* movie scared me more than Nightmare on Elm Street, Tales from the Crypt, Firestarter, and so many others.
neutral · AI labelView post →What to watch this Halloween? CHANNEL 4 is serving up horror from Ben Wheatley & FilmFear [UK]. cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/19086517 > ‘FILMFEAR’ COLLECTION – STREAMING ON CHANNEL 4 UNTIL 2ND NOVEMBER > > - ENYS MEN > - SMILE > - IN THE EARTH > - THE LODGE > - AMULET > - FIRESTARTER > - BULL > - X > - ALONE > - WEREWOLVES WITHIN > - A BANQUET > - THE THING (2011) > - THE INNOCENTS > - FRESH > > ‘COMPLETELY BEN WHEATLEY’ COLLECTION – STREAMING ON CHANNEL 4 UNTIL 15TH NOVEMBER >…
neutral · AI labelView post →Joey covered the trilogy for somewhere(??) so we sat through all 3 and the needle drops were actually exhausting. Marco Beltrami wrote like 30 songs per movie and you'd be hard pressed to find em. So yes I started getting petty about Firestarter being in a movie set in 1994
neutral · AI labelView post →i need to finish that one I got sidetracked halfway through but i dig the prequel comics so clearly I need to go back to it honestly I think I'm most attached to THE STAND but I think I could do the best job with FIRESTARTER or MISERY the only problem is we have a perfect MISERY movie so why
neutral · AI labelView post →At the end of Stephen King's FIRESTARTER (published 1980) Charlie prepares to tell her story to Rolling Stone magazine. In the 1984 film adaptation? (The blah 2022 remake ties itself in ethical knots - we can't have a Native American as a villain! - & scrubs the media-related ending altogether.)
neutral · AI labelView post →If you're going to see The Prodigy in Edinburgh tonight don't be tempted to film Firestarter and it's build up, just take it in. Everyone else will be filming it so you'll still get to see it back 👍👍. Oh and make sure you see Carl Cox!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →youtube.com/watch?v=cgdi... Tangerine Dream from the movie Firestarter
neutral · AI labelView post →On of my more enjoyed earworms. Man, I would LOVE to watch Firestarter on a big screen. It’s always had a special spot in my movie rankings. Also this is Tangerine Dream going for gold. The early 80s were an interesting time for music. youtu.be/xOHpXiDFlbA?...
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 30th birthday anniversary to (1) Greek Poet Odysseys funeral All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 Film Muppets Pacific Blue Film High Incident Film The Prodigy: Firestarter Celine Dion: Falling In You album Pluto Surface images Talk to the Hand
neutral · AI labelView post →Though the irony about Carpenter being basically "Well, it's a job at least" about this is that the film he lost after The Thing flopped was Firestarter. A quickly knocked out Stephen King adaptation. You really couldn't escape them.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Firestarter (1984), you have people wearing clothes in a room you recognize as real. In Welcome To Derry (2025), you have actors in costumes on a movie set. The perfection is detrimental, imho, reminds you constantly that you're watching a show, without emoting much.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forgot to post, but I moved on to FIRESTARTER. My personal favorite Drew Film! 🔥
positive · AI labelView post →Firmly convinced that Guy Ritchie's entire cinematography is based upon him hearing "Firestarter" and centering his film style around it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My buddy @noelct.bsky.social & I did some *talking* about FIRESTARTER over a number of hours on multiple topics (King's original novel, the 1984 movie that does exist, the scripts for the John Carpenter version that does not, and the 2022 abomination). They're all here, we went *deep* y'all
neutral · AI labelView post →Nonetheless, Carpenter was apparently ready to try again, just as he was finishing THE THING and starting FIRESTARTER. According to the Delaware News Journal in June of 1982, THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT was to follow a film about Vietnam, and precede a Western called EL DIABLO.
neutral · AI labelView post →249. The Ring 250. The Ring 2 251. Rings 252. Scary Movie 253. Firestarter 254. Dark Was The Night #Horror365Challenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently reading Stephen King's FIRESTARTER, and having the seen the '84 movie, it's interesting to see what was lost in translation. Because the film is actually a fair adaptation; at some points, line for line accurate. Yet, without the internal narration & POV, so much nuance & character--
neutral · AI labelView post →In the latest Geeks Guide to the Galaxy episode, we discuss the Stephen King movie adaptations Firestarter, Maximum Overdrive, Dreamcatcher, and Cell. Always a hilarious time with chatting with these folks! Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQv...
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Quest for Firestarter" Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Ron Perlman Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud & Keith Thomas Prehistoric horror adventure film about the struggle for control of destructive psychic powers by early humans. youtube.com/watch?v=2pcG... youtube.com/watch?v=59MJ...
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess I have a little "Black Phillip" in the making. In my strange way, the 80's movie Firestarter is one of my favorite movies. Not to mention the score. And the name Necromancer came to mind, from the horse in said movie. What do y'all think? @stephenking.bsky.social #scigoats #blackgoat
positive · AI labelView post →Currently listening to the 2022 Firestarter soundtrack by John Carpenter. Never seen the film and given the word on the film, I'm certain I never will but the soundtrack is an absolute fucking banger. Loving JC's late era music work!
positive · AI labelView post →#151 - Christine (1983) dir. John Carpenter Listen...a movie about a killer car shouldn't work. But it does when it's the love child of Stephen King and John Carpenter. Who needed Firestarter anyways? #horrorsky #nowwatching #31daysofhorror
neutral · AI labelView post →All the people who jabber about box office like they own stock in the studio, I've got Firestarter on right now (somehow never seen it before) and it would've been directed by John Carpenter except his last movie was such a disastrous flop they ditched him. That movie? The Thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →5th Stephen King book read for the year, followed by the movies. The original Firestarter movie is one of my favorite @stephenking.bsky.social adaptions. Looking forward to all the new Stephen King projects this year! #booksky
positive · AI labelView post →@mikeflanaganfilm.com will we ever see you and Stephen King team up to film Firestarter: The Return? It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Charlie on the big screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve never seen the film but upon seeing this, The Prodigy’s Firestarter started playing in my head. Is it close?
neutral · AI labelView post →ROTFLOLLLLLLLL I refuse to watch this horror movie called “Quicksand” and I love horror. “Firestarter” used to be in heavy rotation when I was little
neutral · AI labelView post →Firestarter. Just picked it up randomly in a store at around 10 years old, when the original movie was in theaters, and became a lifelong fan.
positive · AI labelView post →What if Cronenberg directed FIRESTARTER tho how sick would *that* shit have been, I mean really consider it, all the way down to how he'd have treated Charlie and Rainbird now that I consider it the movie he would have made might have gotten banned
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching 📽️: Firestarter (1984)
neutral · AI labelView post →1984: Firestarter 1994: Natural Born Killers 2004: Primer 2014: Under the Skin (this was a horrible year for film; the only other movies I considered were Ex Machina and Nightcrawler)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok truth time: I would watch a crossover movie with Carrie and Charlie from Firestarter and Danny Torrance Fine I admitted it
neutral · AI labelView post →Future #Podcast Idea: "Firestarter" Yes, what would a Stephen King film from 30-40 years ago be without a recent remake that received middling to less-than-stellar reviews? Not eligible for They Remade It, for one, but thankfully this is! Director: Keith Thomas Release: 2022 #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Such a wonderfully bat-shit crazy movie! Like Peter Hyam's FIRESTARTER.
positive · AI labelView post →If seeing the title of this film instinctively made you hear the music or lyrics from “Breathe,” “Firestarter,” or “Smack My Bitch Up” in your head, we can be friends. Maybe. But anyway, yeah, this film has absolutely nothing to do with the band.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does the movie itself have to be good? Firestarter (1984) has a secondary villain that meets the criteria, but I'm not sure it's worth enduring the rest of the movie to see him.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #BooksandComics #Firestarter #StephenKing All 20 Stephen King Sci-Fi Books, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TTRVSp
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