Contamination vs Firestarter

Contamination has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.5/10 for Firestarter). Firestarter is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 47m. Firestarter is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are horror, science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Contamination posterContamination2025 VS Firestarter posterFirestarter2022
ContaminationFirestarter
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 5.5/10
Year20252022
Length1h 47m1h 34m
GenresAction, Horror, Science FictionHorror, Science Fiction
Country––
DirectorDavid Heacock, Neil ChaseKeith Thomas
Main castElizabeth Chamberlain, Neil Chase, Brandon Horth, S-Raj Kumar, Tyler SabourinRyan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, John Beasley, Zac Efron, Jeremy Ferdman

Synopsis

Contamination

A top secret Alaskan lab goes dark due to an unexplained incident, prompting the military to send a black ops team to recover sensitive data and destroy the lab, only to find their ranks infected with a deadly alien virus.

Firestarter

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a…

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