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There will be plenty of post-viewing "Hey, wait a minute?!" moments (I have no idea what either parent does for work), but the movie is quite effective in the moment. The film gets a lot of mileage out of its few big scare sequences and thus doesn't have to overdose on conventional setpieces. It's also more about mood and subtle fears versus jump scares and arbitrary jolts. The movie doesn't offer a deluge of surprises, but it's low-key creepy throughout and does go to some grim places by the end. The title character, by virtue of the plot, is mostly a visual as opposed to a fully-developed character, although Jackson Robert Scott gets a few moments to really act. Like any number of evil child movies, The Prodigy is partially rooted in the horror of loving a child who essentially doesn't love you back. But this is essentially Schilling's movie, as she confronts the horror of her child either being a "bad seed" or not really being her child in a proverbial sense. Feore gets a few solid scenes ones where he both elegantly delivers exposition and tries to do the smart thing when confronted with a challenging scenario. An early incident against a fellow classmate sends him to a shrink who in turn sends him to a specialist (Colm Feore) who believes that, well, that would be telling, but I can assure you that this doesn't turn out to be another exorcism movie.īut it is rather refreshing the extent to which various adults actually believe the frazzled mother when she swears that something about her kid just isn't right. As someone whose first kid turned out to be super smart and on the spectrum, the first twenty minutes were quite relatable. Fortunately, the similarities mostly stop when Miles turns eight and starts acting out in more overtly violent ways. The first several years are merely a matter of the young man being smarter, more alert and less interested in socialization than his peers. The focus remains on the new parents (Taylor Schilling and Peter Mooney) realizing that their son (Miles, played as an eight-year-old by Jackson Robert Scott) isn't a normal kid. The opening violence allows the movie to withhold outright violence and carnage until it darn well feels like it, which in turn makes the movie that much more suspenseful.
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Nonetheless, it's a jolting and violent opening, with the birth of a new baby contrasted with the final moments of a serial killer.
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It won't top anyone's list of "evil kid" flicks ( The Omen and The Childrenfor me), but it provides a low-key sense of menace and doesn't rely on conventional "Gotcha!' moments. The prologue is effective but unnecessary, especially as it spoils the various big reveals if you're well-versed in horror lore.