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| A scene from the horror film The Prodigy - The son of evil |
The Prodigy - The son of evil Nicholas McCarthy's film review with Taylor Schilling, Colm Feore, Peter Mooney, Brittany Allen and Jackson Robert Scott
A ruthless criminal is killed in Ohio and a child is born in Pennsylvania at the same time.
The little Miles growing up surprises everyone because he has unusual learning qualities and for this reason he receives a specialized education for children considered "geniuses" so that they can fully develop their potential. But Miles has something more.
His mother, Sarah, is convinced that a supernatural entity is influencing his life by putting those around him in grave danger. The woman will have to choose whether to follow her own maternal instinct and to unconditionally love her child or, otherwise, to discover the reason for this disturbing behavior, which oscillates between sadism and cruelty, to understand which strange and evil force is gripping him.
The story of The Prodigy tells of a couple of parents and their first and only child who, growing up, develops a double personality. The film retraces all the possible clichés of the genre, does not risk enough and does not aim high, standing out above all for the lack of originality.
Despite the valid interpretations of Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black), of Jackson Robert Scott (the small Georgie of It) and of the psychiatrist Colm Feore, these are not entirely cohesive and the premise is clear from the moment they are presented all the characters.
The film, however, flows with a bit of tension thanks to the help of a valid sound, which is an expressive element for the overall rendering of the story.
Unfortunately the good intentions of the director McCarthy (The Pact, Beyond evil) are influenced by the numerous horror classics that have always shown us diabolical children represented by angelic figures and tales of reincarnations, of Antichrist, of satanic sects and other representations of child psychopathology.
In The Prodigy, possession acts within a small body, it is a sinister being that quickly passes from innocence to cruelty and this is the real crux of the story: on one hand the dilemma of a mother aware of the fact that she is offering the his love for a real monster and, on the other, the blood bond that prevents him from making the right decisions.
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