A kid’s disturbing behaviour gradually starts signalling 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, and 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!
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