Hakob Hakobyan
After sad concourse of circumstances Sam Kramer is a grown-up not exactly knowing his real past and who his parents were. Sam's mother became pregnant with him when the young couple was subject to bomb shelter testing experiment. As a result he was born gifted with fire-starting abilities. Still he and other "experimentals" are being watched by the government. As soon as Sam starts understanding more and more about his origin, troubles begin.This nice thriller/drama brilliantly mixed with horror is a another fine touching movie by great Tobe Hooper, whose "Texas chainsaw 74", "Funhouse", "Lifeforce", "Texas chainsaw part 2" and "Mortuary" I admit to be true unique masterpieces. I understand it might sound strange, but adding this great score, even makes this movie somewhat lyric.
alexander-jacobs
Seriously, what is THIS? Hooper has made such classic films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then he made this god awful film, what happened? did he dip into the crack a little too much? This film is about some dude named Sam who has the ability to set things on fire,(Firestarter, anyone?) the acting was godawful, the plot was rubbish, and the special effects were extremely rubbish, they looked like something from the 70's. Van Damme should be pleased that Derailed is no longer the worst film ever, and what was with the ending? he started glowing blue, turned into a glowing blue blob, sucked out his girlfriends fire, and the film ended. WHAT WAS THAT? HUH? when the film ended I hoped the DVD would Spontaniously Combust to save me from my pain.STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILM.DON'T THINK, OBEY, you'll thank me later.
leia_nog@hotmail.com
Now, i hired this movie because Brad Dourif was in it. He is an excellent actor, BRILLIANT in everything...except this movie. And i think that was only because he realized how stupid this movie was, and didn't bother with a good performance. This movie is a unintentional-comedy. Some of the lines just crack me up. And them there are some lines that make no sense, and it seems like Tobe Hooper just throw lines in without thinking about the plot. Oh! BTW the plot is BAD! But it one of those films that is TAHT BAD that its actually PAINFUL to watch. I recommend this only for BIG Brad Dourif fans, or fans of any of the other actors, because the plot is pathetic.
horrorfan81
Tobe Hooper brought us Salem's Lot The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the seventies, they were good films but with this one he did something wrong, the main actor Brad Dourif ( the voice of Chucky in childs play) is a really good actor and Tobe's career must've been going down hill, John Landis had a small cameo roll which didn't help it, the special effect were poor, the plot of the story is the OK but some scenes could've been better with some explanation like Sam goes to his car and finds a parcel from someone and later we hear he was adopted under a new name. Tobe must've watched this film and saw it was bad and bounced back and made a few good films.
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