The Fire Devil (1984)

chronology
The fire devil
Soundtrack from Tangerine Dream
Publication ; (s)	1984
Label (s)	MCA
Format (s)	Compact disc , download
Genre (s)	Electronic music
Title (number)	11
running time	41:39
occupation	Edgar Froese: synthesizer , guitar ; Christopher Franke: synthesizer, electronic drums ; Johannes Schmoelling: Synthesizer;
production	Tangerine Dream

Movie
German title	The fire devil
Original title	Firestarter
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1984
length	114 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Mark L. Lester
script	Stanley Mann
production	Frank Capra Jr.
music	Tangerine Dream
camera	Giuseppe Ruzzolini
cut	David Rawlins , ; Ronald Sanders
occupation
	David Keith : Andrew 'Andy' McGee; Drew Barrymore : Charlene 'Charlie' McGee; Heather Locklear : Vicky Tomlinson McGee; Martin Sheen : Captain Hollister; George C. Scott : John Rainbird; Freddie Jones : Dr. Joseph Wanless; Louise Fletcher : Norma Manders; Art Carney : Irv Manders; Moses Gunn : Dr. Pynchot; Antonio Fargas : taxi driver;
synchronization
chronology
	Successor → ; Fire Devil - The Return

Der Feuerteufel (OT: Firestarter) is an American horror film directed by Mark L. Lester in 1984. The film is based on Stephen King's 1980 novel Feuerkind . The film was released on September 28, 1984 in German cinemas.

action

Andrew McGee and his little daughter Charlie are on the run from a dubious secret service called "the Institute" (in English "The Shop").

The history is told in retrospect: A few years earlier, Andrew took part in a scientific experiment as a test subject and met a young woman named Vicky who was also a test subject . He falls in love with her and they get married. The administration of a drug-like substance at the time promoted the development of psychic abilities. The two have a daughter, Charlie, and it soon becomes clear that they must have inherited them.

Charlie has telekinetic powers with which she can kindle fire ( pyrokinesis ). As a toddler, she has no control over this gift, which allows it to do a lot of harm, which is very worrying for parents. When the institute learns about this, a new series of experiments with Charlie is to start, which is why unscrupulous kidnappers are sent after her, to whom Vicky falls victim. Andrew comes home late to prevent the worst. He finds his wife's body hidden in the closet. Andrew finds out that she was tortured by pulling out her fingernails. At the last moment he can prevent Charlie from being kidnapped from the house of a family friend by the institute agents. With the help of his own powers, he influences the menace through hypnosis and makes them blind. Then the two are on the run from the secret service.

They can hide on the farm of a believing elderly couple. Numerous armed agents soon appear to take Charlie away. For the first time, Charlie consciously uses her skills to save himself and Andrew, and unleashes an inferno in which many of the attackers and their vehicles go up in flames. Only a few can save themselves and return to the institute.

The head of the institute, Captain Hollister, then uses the hardened, brutal and corrupt agent John Rainbird on the two as a last resort to get his hands on Charlie. Rainbird succeeds in locating the two in Andrew's grandparents' house and overpowering them with a stun gun.

At the institute, Rainbird tricked Charlie's trust by pretending to be the cleaner for her sealed-off living area. He visits her every day, talks to her and ultimately convinces her to cooperate with the scientists so that she can see her father again. She then demonstrated her enormous pyrokinetic powers in tests. Nevertheless, Hollister holds them out because scientists consider contact between father and daughter to be too dangerous. Eventually, Andrew himself finds a way to get in touch with Charlie by secretly evading drug immobilization. This way he can hypnotize Hollister. He wants to use it to flee the institute with Charlie. For this purpose, Hollister is supposed to deliver a message to Charlie, which includes a meeting in the horse stable of the compound.

Charlie and Andrew finally see each other there again, but their joy doesn't last long. Charlie told her supposed friend Rainbird about the matter. Rainbird ambushes the two at their meeting point. Charlie is initially happy to see her boyfriend John and wants to take him on the run, but Andrew clarifies Rainbird's true identity. Rainbird shoots Andrew, mortally wounding him. Before he dies in Charlie's arms, he tells her to use her skills to escape and destroy the institute. When she initially directs her hatred on John, he tries to shoot her, but she is able to stop the bullet and set Rainbird on fire.

Driven by anger, sadness and hatred, Charlie saves the horses from the stable, then sets him on fire. Agents in fire suits try to stop them, but they also burn. Charlie goes out and shoots fireballs at anything that moves. So she burns the members of the institute and burns down the building completely.

Shortly thereafter, she reappears on the farm and is able to convince the farmer couple to accompany her to the New York Times to bring the evil machinations of the secret service and the institute to the public.

synchronization

role	actor	speaker
Andrew 'Andy' McGee	David Keith	Ulrich Gressieker
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee	Drew Barrymore	Caroline Ruprecht
Vicky Tomlinson McGee	Heather Locklear	Janina Richter
Captain Hollister	Martin Sheen	Lothar Blumhagen
John Rainbird	George C. Scott	Arnold Marquis
Norma Manders	Louise Fletcher	Barbara Adolph

background

The film was a co-production by Dino De Laurentiis Productions and Universal Pictures . It was released in American cinemas on May 11, 1984. The film received poor reviews and was not well received by audiences. He played the production cost of 15 million dollars just on again. Only when it was released on video did the film become the hoped-for success for the producers.
Filming took place in Lake Lure, Orton Plantation, Winnabow and Wilmington , North Carolina , among others .
Drew Barrymore , who was eight at the time , was born in 1982 through her supporting role in Steven Spielberg's E.T. - The extraterrestrial became known, played a leading role in Firestarter for the first time.
In the United States in 2002 a sequel entitled Feuerteufel - The Return ( Firestarter 2: Rekindled ) was produced for television. The main role of Charlie took on Marguerite Moreau .
In the novel, John Rainbird is an Iroquois , which also explains his behavior in dealing with death, as he believes in a cult of the dead. In the film he shows the same behavior but is white.
Currently (as of May 2017) a new film is being planned. Akiva Goldsman will direct, the script will be written by Scott Teems.

Film music

The music for the film comes from Tangerine Dream with the line- up Edgar Froese , Christopher Franke and Johannes Schmoelling and is the band's fifth soundtrack album.

Firestarter - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
No.	title	length
1.	Crystal Voice	3:07
2.	The Run	4:50
3.	Test lab	4:00
4th	Charly the Kid	3:51
5.	Escaping point	5:10
6th	Rainbirds Move	2:31
7th	Burning Force	4:17
8th.	Between realities	2:53
9.	Shop Territory	3:15
10.	Flash Final	5:15
11.	Out of the heat	2:30
Overall length:		41:39

Reviews

"An exciting horror film for long stretches."

- Lexicon of international film

"Script and tricks are lousy."

- Cinema

Awards

1985 nominated for the Saturn Award in the categories of Best Horror Film and Best Newcomer Actor ( Drew Barrymore ).

literature

Stephen King : Fire Child . Roman (original title: Firestarter ). German by Harro Christensen. Full paperback edition. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, 478 pages, ISBN 3-404-26071-6
The great Stephen King movie book. Carrie, Shining, Cujo, Dead zone, Talisman, Kinder des Zorns, Cat's eye, The incredibly crazy witching hour, Fire Devil, Burning Must Salem, Trucks, Silver bullet . Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, 283 pages, ISBN 3-404-28144-6

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Der Feuerteufel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 54 784 V / DVD).
↑ The fire devil. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 3, 2016 .
↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
↑ Filming locations on imdb.com
↑ deadline.com, accessed on May 2, 2017
↑ The fire devil. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ The fire devil. Editorial criticism. In: Cinema.de. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Film locations of Firestarter (1984) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Firestarter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Firestarter at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
The fire devil in the online film database
Comparison of the cut versions FSK 18 PRO 7 - FSK 18 Uncut , FSK 16 Videoplay VHS - FSK 16 DVD , Tele 5 from 12 - FSK 16 by Der Feuerteufel at Schnittberichte.com

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Der Feuerteufel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 54 784 V / DVD).

[2] The fire devil. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 3, 2016 .

[3] Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com

[4] Filming locations on imdb.com

[5] .com, accessed on May 2, 2017

[6] The fire devil. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[7] The fire devil. Editorial criticism. In: Cinema.de. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .


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