‘Eyes of Fire’: Fireproof Stephen King

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The second adaptation of the novel King of Terror, published in 1980, takes advantage of advances in special effects

Adapting Stephen King’s novels to the big screen, now several, is not daring, unlike other writers. The popular horror writer hardly gives an opinion about the new versions of his books, preferring instead to praise “The paper house” on Twitter and other proposals that he falls in love with. Unreserved fan of the Spanish series, his time as a hater towards Kubrick and his unspeakable rendition of “The Shining” (the subsequent letterboard-approved translation didn’t exactly go down in history) is left behind. Some classics of the master of horror already have several jumps to the real picture, generally unsuccessful in their second round, as in the case of ‘Carrie’ -hard to beat the work of Brian de Palma-. Now it’s the turn of ‘Ojos de fuego’, released in the mid-eighties, directed by Mark L. Lester -replacing John Carpenter-, who drew the cult film ‘Curso1984’, and later ‘Commando’, before he definitively changed his filmography to “video store meat”.

Starring Drew Barrymore, who grew out of the success of ‘ET’ before falling into the hell of addictions as a child, he is replaced nearly four decades later by Ryan Kiera Armstrong, who was featured in the second part of the revamped ‘It’ and in dilapidated blockbusters like ‘Black Widow’. Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon, who is worth seeing in the series ‘Helstrom’, accompany the little actress in this drama with supernatural undertones.

‘Ojos de fuego’ depicts a girl of barely 11 years old with pyrotechnic powers who is persecuted by a malicious organization that wants to abuse her extraordinary abilities. Her parents hide her from the clutches of the evil agency as best they can, but it becomes increasingly difficult to escape the threat. The girl is able to start fire from nowhere and becomes a powerful weapon of mass destruction, very deadly if it falls into the wrong hands. His strange gift is increasingly difficult to master. As anger grips the little girl, the spark is ignited and a symphony of noise and fury erupts. The flames devour everything in its path.

Unlike its predecessor, this new version is supported by a display of contemporary visual effects commissioned by Keith Thomas, a novelist with an emerging career in the literary field who wrote and directed the just “The Vigil,” an atmospheric debut film in which the protagonist experiences a veritable nightmare in which he has to face his faith after accepting the role of ‘night shomer’, a Jewish practice in which a person watches over the lifeless body of a recently deceased member of the community. It closed the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, the most important of its kind, and opened the doors for the filmmaker to take on a major commission, another adaptation of one of the tireless Stephen King’s novels, whose prose is still continues to be a source of inspiration for genre films.

The reboot, read relaunch, of ‘Fire Eyes’ imitates the design of the 1984 poster in its poster and visits the conventional exhibition circuit sponsored by Blumhouse, a production company specializing in horror films aimed at young audiences, with references such as the sagas ‘Insidious’ , ‘Paranormal Activity’ or ‘The Purge’. Presumably this new version is more concerned with the psychology of the characters, although its power is the combustion unleashed in images.

Source: La Verdad

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