Luana Anders stars as Alice Denning, an attractive but shy girl who is struggling to adjust to her new community after another move by her insensitive father(played by Edward Platt) who is also blind to his cruel sister who resents the poor girl, and undermines her whenever possible. Alice however has the power of pyrokinesis, which is the ability to start fires with her mind, which has gotten her in trouble in the past, but just might help her out in future. Sandra Knight costars as her sympathetic friend. Good cast and story here which has inevitable comparisons to "Carrie" and "Firestarter", but this fine episode can stand on its own.
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The Burning Girl
Prismark1016 November 2021
Alice Denning is not a young woman who you want to make angry.
When she gets inflamed, something might just combust.
Alice's dad has moved several times in recent years. Each time something had caught fire and Alice was nearby.
With her mother dead, her cruel aunt looks after the family. However she is a drunk who likes to taunt Alice.
A simple tale about mysterious fires. You sense this is where Stephen King got inspiration for both Carrie and Firestarter.
When she gets inflamed, something might just combust.
Alice's dad has moved several times in recent years. Each time something had caught fire and Alice was nearby.
With her mother dead, her cruel aunt looks after the family. However she is a drunk who likes to taunt Alice.
A simple tale about mysterious fires. You sense this is where Stephen King got inspiration for both Carrie and Firestarter.
Hey, Stephen King!
vlt22-170-26069228 March 2021
The sixty sense....a mind power is still unknown by the science !!
elo-equipamentos15 July 2019
I love this series, one the best that ever had, the first season has a countless mysterious short tales, The Burning Girl was one of them, Alice seems a normal teenager girl, but when she stays upset start burn something around, all reasons converge for an auntie who lives with his father, a jealous old and unmarried women, a bitter who quite often was drunk, she hates Alice, now to explain such power, in several parts of the world something alike this really happened, many people had the same and unexplained power, they had, a sort of sixty sense, a powerful mind demand an action in such pressure, the science have been trying explain this real events, without any conclusion yet, the mind power still unknown for the scientist, the studies continues and probable in near future they will get the answer, it have been happening for so many thousand years ago!!
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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5
Resume:
First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5
Once Again We Find the Source
societialreform23 January 2021
This was a pretty good episode for this show, certainly not on the level of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. What does make this stand out however is that it is clearly the source for Stephen King's novel 'Firestarter'. I have discovered over the years that Stephen King honestly just re-writes older works by other people. 'Salem's Lot (Dracula), Shining (Haunting of Hill House), The Stand (The Earth Abides), even Carrie can be seen to have been inspired by this TV show. I just don't get it. I mean, Robert McCammon made his early career by rewriting early Stephen King novels: Night Boat (Christine), They Thirst ('Salem's Lot) and of course, Swan Song (The Stand), but at least HE owned up to it. The closest thing we get to a King confession is in his book Danse Macabre wherein he admits to having been working on the Shining when he read The Earth Abides, and thought 'too much ecology and not enough story' so he re-worked it as The Stand.
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