Firestarter
2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
HorrorScience FictionThriller
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.
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User Reviews
**Slightly generic but heartwarming**
This is your typical superhero origin story that is about learning responsibility. Unlike most people, I actually thought this was kind of sweet and slightly different from other films in the same genre. They went for a more realistic approach by focusing on her "becoming a young woman" and showing the difficulties through a visual cue.
October 23, 2025
Add it to the “passible movies that are adaptations of Stephen King novels” pile, which is getting concerning-ly large.
Regardless, I got to see the NOPE trailer on the big screen!
September 12, 2022
**Ironically, this fire never got going—total dud.**
What? How? I didn't expect to be blown away, but I also didn't expect to be bored. I love Blumhouse flicks, and their fresh take on The Invisible Man had my expectations high for their version of Firestarter. Unfortunately, this was as straight to streaming as a movie could feel. Think Push (2009) but much more mediocre.
August 20, 2022
Crew
Director
Keith Thomas
Writer
Scott Teems
Producer
Ryan Turek, Gregory Lessans, J.D. Lifshitz
Production
Blumhouse Productions, Weed Road Pictures, Universal Pictures
Keywords
firebased on novel or booktelepathycoming of agesecret government organizationpsychic powerpsychicfemale magiciansupernatural powerpsychic force