“Firestarter” is the second movie adaptation of the novel of the same name by horror icon Stephen King. The science fiction movie is a remake of the 1984 film adaptation and stars Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong in a horror picture about a girl with pyrotechnic abilities.
It recently struck me that my love of Stephen King comes from the fact that he really was my genre gateway author. “Salem’s Lot” was my first vampire story, “The
BRIAN VINER: Sassoon is splendidly played as a young man by Jack Lowden, and in later years, after he converts to Catholicism and grows deeply embittered, by Peter Capaldi.