Features‘Firestarter’ and the evolution of the psychic teen girlPosted on May 18, 2022 The metaphor of the unknowable mystery, power and instability of a girl on the cusp of womanhood — 16th birthdays and proms have both figured prominently — has been through many iterations. And the genre has come a long way from the original “Carrie” shower scene, in which Sissy Spacek’s terrified powderkeg of a teen is pelted with tampons by mean girls chanting “Plug it up!”
