Whenever Charlie loses her cool (so to speak), her skin-melting fury is as gory and nightmarish as it should be. Thomas, who previously made the effectively spooky low-budget ghost story “The Vigil,” handles the horror parts of “Firestarter” reasonably well. Institutional arrogance ruined Charlie’s mother and father and it turned Charlie into a human weapon, with minimal control over her powers and no honest prospect of a normal childhood. But hope is in short supply for the McGees. Ryan Kiera Armstrong plays their preadolescent daughter Charlie, whose own pyrokinetic abilities - which allow her to start fires with her mind when she’s really angry - have drawn the attention of the same agency that experimented on her folks.įor most of the movie, Andy and Charlie are on the run, trying to elude the program’s big boss Captain Hollister (Gloria Reuben) and her psychic operative John Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes). Zac Efron plays Andy McGee, who along with his wife Vicky ( Sydney Lemmon) developed psychic powers as the result of the secret government drug trial they participated in as college kids. Though the story’s been updated to the present day, the premise is the same.
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