A kid’s disturbing behaviour gradually starts signaling that a sinister force might be guiding his actions.
The “possessed child” theme has been beaten to death. And The Prodigy doesn’t have an original angle. Acting, directing, cinematography, all work well together. Even the idea is – somewhat – solid. Its development to a story and then to a script though isn’t. It heavily relies on the sound design for good, old fashioned jump scares. Now, the editing could have saved a big part of it but it didn’t. It revealed almost everything in the first act, leaving nothing to the imagination, subtracting the speculation, and consequently, sucking out the mystery. It is not the editing’s fault though.
Producers and directors should have realised that the “horror” fans have seen all that already and should have brainstormed for new ideas that keep the genre fresh… and scary!
If you still fancy watching it, you can find it here: https://amzn.to/37nkPwB