The Burning Girl

Are you *sure* you didn't see this episode?

Seems awful familiar... ;)

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.

Will and his daughter Alice have moved several times, trouble seems to follow them, everywhere they go 'incidents' happen, and fires are started, Will is convinced his daughter is to blame. They find a new home, and once again, fires blaze.

This series always manages to offer up something a little different, and this one has to rate as one of the most original storylines so far. I wouldn't have thought that much would have been known about such phenomena in 1959.

I liked the pacing of it, it moved by very quickly, I also liked the characters, especially the wicked Aunt Mildred.

There's one very bleak scene, where Alice is dragged against her will into a shed, not the kind of thing you think of with wholesome viewing from the 1950's.

Luana Anders put in a good performance as the troubled teen, it would have been so easy for her to go overboard, but she kept it in check.

Some good special effects, especially the sofa bursting into flames, hopefully the fire crew weren't far away.

7/10.

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

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.