the score from John Carpenter is the only redeeming quality

graphic animal abuse/death - TIMESTAMP 38:52-40:21

The original was much better

A decent coming-of-age drama horror with excellent lead performances. To be honest I didn't enjoy the original adaptation at all. I thought it was uninteresting and overlong, so I went into this re-adaptation expecting it to be at least slightly better and that's what I got. It's more of a drama with horror elements in it. Definitely not scary but it delivers the chills that you usually get from most Stephen King films, thanks to the Carpenter score. It also improves on everything the original did wrong. The characters seem to stick out more and the emotional parts work really well. The technical aspects are great as well, the effects in particular are well made. Give it a try.

I don't understand all the bad reviews for this movie, I really enjoyed it. The climax in the original was more grandiose, but otherwise everything about this remake is a vast improvement. Zac Efron is very out of place as the father, but the father in the original was a lot more out of place. I bought the father/daughter relationship in this version, I never did in the original. This is nothing like the original really, it's on a different level.

I have a feeling this will end up on several listicles of underrated movies in the future, probably even from the same sites that trashed it when it came out.

It's no masterpiece, but I really enjoyed it.

More of a superhero film rather than horror. Watched the original just before watching this and none of the two impressed me but the original is better. The John Carpenter score is too good for this. Weird to see Zac Efron as a dad but he did great. Michael Greyeyes is such a badass!

Pleasantly surprised. If this were Marvel the reviews would be way kinder.

carpenter score is good, zac efron's always a good actor so i liked him, but in general just. so boring.

a cat dies and it's pretty graphic, someone else here gave a time stamp and that sounds about right. idk charlie just felt a little too old for her behavior to be rationalized away, even if she never learned how to deal with her powers.

It was like I was watching an X-Men movie

This movie should be renamed Shitstarter.
I can't believe in 2022 with well known actors are doing such movies.
DO NOT WAIST AND WATCH THIS.

Very dumb writing. Making dumb decisions. Doing all the wrong things the whole movie.

What a great job they did with the trailer on this one in order to get people to the movie as it was very disappointing and confusing and not at all what the trailer made one seem it would be. The beginning showing flashbacks of the characters in order to give the viewer a premise was very confusing as it made it seem like this was the 2nd film as if there were pieces missing. And those plot points were never really explained fully. Thought this was going to be about a young girl who was gifted with dangerous powers learning to control them and hide them as she was one of a kind, but it was more about other characters as well as she was not the only one with powers and it wasn't a becoming a hero film. It was very horrifically violent as the girl basically burned everything/everyone in her as she looked for revenge. The film just started off bad with confusing/unfinished plot points and ended the film on, "ok everything is gone now," kind of cliffhanger. However, it wasn't all bad as it was entertaining and curious and surprising.

Just another one for the gallery of remakes that shouldn't have been done.

In the 70's /80's there was 50's/60's movie remakes, which they took a good movie and made it great (The Thing, The Blob, The Fly, Body Snatchers, etc). After the 90's they started to peak a great movie e make this... a shadow of what the original was.

Simpler screenplay, shortly time, same look and montage style (Friday the 13th, The omen, The Fog, The Invasion, Carrie, Children of Corn, Fright Night, Poltergeist, etc), something like the made-for-tv-movie was in the 80's. A shame.

Stay with the '84 classic. It´s great!

This movie was terrible and kept making me hope for Charlie McGee's demise. This movie should have never been made.

"Liar... Liar...Pants... On... Fire."

I cannot believe that's in the movie. And no, don't take this as a "so bad it's good" type of movie, because it's just bad and boring.

As a fan of the book and, in most parts, the original film, I was really looking forward to this remake. What a disappointment.
The use of a John Carpenter score, and the name De Laurentis on the production, it was obviously attempting to have an 80s vibe.
The addition of Charlie’s extra abilities and Andy’s need to crick his neck to show he was going in for a ‘push’, just seemed like unnecessary additions to veer away from Stephen King’s original story.
The script was poor and it seemed like an attempt to merge elements of Carrie with Firestarter to ruin a decent story. Charlie being called ‘weird’ by the other school kids, the constant rantings from Andy about how her ability was bad and her walking through the ‘shop’ burning everything in her path didn’t add anything interesting to the film and just made it more like Carrie.
Very poor and definitely not one I’d watch again.

In these days of Marvel and X-Men movies,this is not going to work especially when you change so much from the book "to cut the budgets i think".
The use of john carpenter score is very good though..

What's the point of basing a movie on a book if you're going to change so much?

:heart:x5
This movie left me cold.

See what I did there? But seriously, it's not any better or worse than the original. For me this was just a very blah movie.

How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!