The film opens with a series of inter-cut scenes, spinning two narratives at once. The Prodigy's marketing campaign was built around the question "What's wrong with Miles?", But the film itself wastes no time answering it. The latest in the long (long) line of bad seed movies, Orion Pictures' The Prodigy is a shallow but thrilling spin on the subgenre that benefits from playful, campy interplay with the audience but too often falls to over-familiar plotting and, ultimately, doesn't have anything new to say. But when it comes to the most popular brand of parental nightmares, there's no doubt that the evil child subgenre reigns supreme. Last year was a banner year for the parental anxiety brand of horror, with films like Hereditary and A Quiet Place (not to mention Netflix's incredible Haunting of Hill House series) finding inspired new ways to explore the well-traversed subject matter. If there's one well that horror writers just love turning to for inspiration, again and again, it's the terrors of parenting.
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