Movies like Firestarter
If Firestarter's mix of fire, telepathy and psychic power stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Firestarter's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Shining
1980 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 144 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: telepathy, psychic power · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (1980s)
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.
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Scanners
1981 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: telepathy, psychic power · Also science fiction and horror · From the same decade (1980s)
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
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The Dead Zone
1983 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itWith Martin Sheen · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (1980s)
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.
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Freaks
2019 · Directed by Zach Lipovsky · 105 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: psychic power · Also science fiction and thriller
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes.
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Succubus
2024 · Directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna · 103 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso horror and thriller
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he…