Not long ago I wrote an article for UGO detailing the best and worst Stephen King adaptation. I trashed Firestarter, but the truth is that I barely remembered it. Watching it again, I feel relieved — it does indeed suck. Young Drew Barrymore, cute though she may have been, was pretty stinkin’ awful. The scenes of the secret scientific defense lab “The Shop” has none of the production design you’d expect from something like this. (It is no Scanners.) The only thing cool about this movie is the tacky 80s Tangerine Dream soundtrack. And that you can probably listen to on You Tube.
