FilmRSupernatural Sci-Fi Horror Psychological

Firestarter2022

Name: Firestarter
Genre: Supernatural, Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Survival
Released: 2022-05-12
Rating: 4.3

“Never play with fire.”

Directed by Keith Thomas

4.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 4.6Rotten Tomatoes 10%Metacritic 32TMDB 5.5

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Year

2022

Runtime

94 min

Box Office

Budget

$12,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$15,039,250

Domestic

$9,739,250

🏆 7 nominations total

The premise

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 reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

Horror Vault's take

A young girl named Charlie was born with a terrifying and barely containable ability to generate fire — a power that a covert government agency has spent years trying to claim for its own ends. Her parents have kept her hidden and taught her to suppress the flames, but as Charlie approaches adolescence her gift grows increasingly volatile and harder to contain. When the family's cover is finally blown, a dangerous operative closes in and Charlie must reckon with the full, frightening scope of what she is capable of. This Stephen King adaptation leans into the horror of being hunted while exploring the psychological toll of living as a weapon.

Content: Violence, Peril Involving A Child, Disturbing Imagery