Fire Syndrome
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fire Syndrome |
| Original title | Spontaneous Combustion |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tobe Hooper |
| script |
Howard Goldberg , Tobe Hooper |
| production | Jim Rogers |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Levie Isaacks |
| cut | David Kern |
| occupation | |
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Fire Syndrome (Original title: Spontaneous Combustion , German Alternative title fire syndrome ) is an American science fiction - horror - thriller The from 1990. Directed led Tobe Hooper . The film opened in German cinemas on June 7, 1990.
action
In an underground bunker in the middle of a desert in the US state of Nevada in 1955, Brian and Peggy Bell were exposed to a huge atomic explosion as test subjects for the company "Samson", a military project to test immune substances against ionizing radiation . They survive the detonation and are then celebrated and revered as national heroes. When the high-ranking military and nuclear scientists learned of Peggy's pregnancy a short time later, which aroused consternation and concern, they could not make up their mind to have an abortion. The newborn, a son named David, is subjected to various tests immediately after its birth, but is classified as "healthy" with a slightly elevated temperature. On the same day, his parents are painfully killed by spontaneous human self-ignition , the so-called "fire syndrome".
On his 34th birthday, the now grown-up and divorced Sam, who makes a living as a teacher in California under a new identity, suddenly discovers unimagined abilities - the fire syndrome. During his uncontrollable bursts of emotion, he is able to set things as well as people on fire. He then tries to find out more about himself, his past and his new skills. He gets help from his partner Lisa, whose parents also died from an unnatural burn.
Sam soon succeeds in finding explosive secrets from his past that turn his previous life upside down and leave him there as the victim of a far-reaching plot. He learns u. a. that his parents were abused by unscrupulous scientists, and that he too was systematically lied to for lucrative research projects on behalf of his ex-wife's billionaire grandfather, Lew Orlander, from birth.
At this stage of arousal, his anger increases. Apparently he is directed against his surroundings at random until he, exposed to physical decline, loses control of his ability and then kills his foster father Lew. At the end of the film, the disfigured Sam has to watch how his girlfriend Lisa, whom he didn't trust in the meantime, also breaks out with Fire Syndrome. At the sight of his lover, Sam dissolves in a bright arc - the shocked Lisa remains largely unharmed.
Reviews
"Initially a tightly staged thriller against the background of the naive belief in progress of the 50s, which soon degenerates into horror entertainment that is only interested in bombastic surface stimuli."
Web links
- Fire Syndrome in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fire Syndrome in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - BBFC 18 from Fire Syndrome at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Fire Syndrome. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .