Embarrassing Stephen King Adaptation Suddenly Enters Prime’s Top Despite 10% on RT
Some movie adaptations should be certainly burnt to the ground.
There is no doubt that Stephen King has brought the cinema industry billions of dollars with many of his novels being adapted into movies and TV shows. A great number of them also receive massive critical and the audience’s praise and become cultish.
We bet you have seen The Shining (1980), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) or Green Mile (1999). However, there are some critically panned movie versions of Stephen King’s novels, with one of them now climbing Prime Video ’s global top all of a sudden.
The plot of the 2022 horror revolves around Andy and Vicky, a couple who developed supernatural abilities as a result of the secret government drug trial they took part in as college students. It also led to their daughter Charlie having pyrokinesis.
It obviously doesn’t seem like a typical kid’s trait, and that’s why their family draws the attention of a scientific agency that aims to catch the girl for using her like a human weapon. It is high time for Andy and Charlie to go on the long and dangerous run.
Even though it’s not the worst Stephen King adaptation, according to Rotten Tomatoes, as there is the one that earned a shameful 0% score, 1990’s Graveyard Shift, this disappointment is truly a hard-watch and is hated by every fan of the King of horror.
In the beginning it promises to be a nice mix of science fiction and scary parts, also including a drama leitmotif about a father who blames himself for the mistakes of the reckless youth. But eventually it ruins all our hopes by transforming into a ridiculous and straightforward horror that lacks a sense of scope.
Titled Firestarter and based on King’s 1980 novel, it seems unfinished, as the conflict’s climax arrives long before you start to sympathize with the main characters. That’s why it doesn’t manage to convey the greatness of the original at all.
Nevertheless, it can be a perfect guilty-pleasure flick for hate-watching or for a late-night marathon of King’s worst adaptations. Check out whether or not this 10%-rated horror deserves to be panned so much, as Firestarter is available on Prime.