#Movie the prodigy movie#
Then from here it unravels like a conveyer belt check-list of pattern possession/ classic horror movie clichés, re-contextualised, clumped together and moulded into a mechanical part pseudo-slasher that ticks boxes but has been blandly fashioned with little ingenuity and finesse.įlat dialogue spats root a tepid made-for-TV air, rendering The Prodigy predominantly flaccid when compared to the films that inspired it, despite haunting, pale and ashen tones from cinematographer Bridger Nielson.
Miles does a bit of Oedipal mommucking, which the plot resists utilising to full effect like in Amityville: The Possession and Orphan. The set-up is snug and tailed with a nasty hide and seek game during which the babysitter comes a cropper. John and Sarah meet psychologist Dr Arthur Jacobson (Colm Feore) after Miles unflappably bludgeons a classmate with a wrench, then spend the rest of the film evading death while trying to figure out what’s wrong with him.
#Movie the prodigy serial#
What they don’t realise (like viewers) is that Miles is possessed by the narked spirit of recently departed serial killer Edward Sarka, who plans to take permanent residence in the boy’s body after sieving his soul into nothingness. Director Nicholas McCarthy’s The Prodigy is an evil kid flick which adheres to the textbook adopting fladgets and tart devices while just about hitting plot beats and deviating enough so it’s not completely cumbersome.Įight years after the birth of their son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott), Pennsylvania based couple, John and Sarah Blume (Peter Mooney and Taylor Schilling) are told their offspring has a freakishly high IQ and is advancing too fast. Most horror fans would welcome watching possessed kids run amuck with power tools above their head or wantonly parade paranormal powers instead of stealthily sliding cucumbers behind placid cats like normal children, but there’s nothing more maddening than seeing horror films shamelessly nip from the classics.
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