Blumhouse: Stop Ripping Off John Carpenter, Just Hire John Carpenter

Keith Thomas’ Firestarter really wishes that it were a John Carpenter movie. The film marks the second attempt to adapt Stephen King’s novel as a theatrical feature, following a largely forgotten 1984 adaptation from Mark Lester. The story has been updated for modern times; Charlie McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is told that students no longer need to dissect frogs, her father Andy (Zac Efron) calls himself a “life coach,” and farmer Irv Manders (John Beasley) watches Netflix documentaries. However, despite these tweaks, the film still feels rooted in the 1980s. This throwback aesthetic is obvious in a number of ways. […]

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