A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
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This was an interesting effort from the supernatural genre and most specific from the child killer genre which u can place in the category of films like the omen trilogy and stuff like that.
the movie started well then it had a few scenario flaws in the middle of the movie u may be bored kinda and then like 30 last minuted the movie finally explained things and those last minutes were the best part of the movie including a few disturbing scenes with the child killer.
those scenario flaws here and there (like the mother should realize what's really happening a lot sooner than when she did) were important cause those kind of movies need to be as realistic as can be to be...real scary movies.
Anyways it could have been a lot better but still it gets easily the average grade and then some.
from me it's a C+ // 6 out of 10
u can check this out and judge for yourselves. the ending leaves the door open for a sequel.
from me it's a C+ // 6 out of 10
u can check this out and judge for yourselves. the ending leaves the door open for a sequel.
That kid does scare people with that look upon his face, but the movie is also slow and a little bit annoying, plus the final twist is not surprising at all !
Considering that making a good Horror nowadays must be a real quandary, as we've invariably seen it before, the Prodigy isn't bad at all.
It's a mesh between various movies. Some cliches, but overall, it's a decent "original" idea. If you like horror movies/thrillers with decent production budgets, you will enjoy this.
I felt like the scares were great, people actually screamed in the theater and the storyline had wonderful potential. The ending felt flat, like there was something missing from the movie. The dad seemed to be there for the purpose of making the family and to make the movie longer. He didn't seem important and he really wasn't, he was there to fill dialog and an extra problem later in the story, which could have easily been avoided if he didn't talk to his son/not son in the car. I know that the mom and the son were the main focus, but he was just there. I could talk more about it all, but I'll leave my opinion here. If you still want to watch the movie, go ahead.
Did you know
- TriviaSince Jackson Robert Scott filmed this movie in-between Ça : Chapitre 1 (2017) and Ça : Chapitre 2 (2019), he appeared in three horror movies in a row.
- GoofsDavid Bowie's eyes were the product not of heterochromia but a teenage fistfight with his school pal (and, later, lifetime artistic partner) George Underwood over a girl that resulted in anisocoria, a condition in which a person's eyes have different-size pupils.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Sarah Blume: You took my son's soul... you can't have his body
[is suddenly shot by a farmer]
Miles Blume: [pretending to be scared] She was going to kill me
Sarah Blume: [dying] No... no... no
- Crazy creditsTowards the end of the credits we hear a possessed Miles humming Scarka's French lullaby.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WhatCulture Originals: 10 Worst Horror Movies of 2019 (2019)
- SoundtracksDon't Bring Me Roses Red
Written by Kennedy Morrison
Performed by Bonnie Guitar
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- Maligno
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- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,856,291
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,853,061
- Feb 10, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $21,127,789
- Runtime
- 1h 32m(92 min)
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- 2.35 : 1
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