And the performances are solid throughout: Schilling and Mooney are believable as a couple facing something unimaginable, and young Scott is outstanding in the most demanding role.
The movie's atmospheres are suitably foreboding and draped in poisonous shadows.
But the way it's presented, with some thoughtful matching of images, shows promise. The opening sequence, for instance, could be said to reveal too much, leaving audiences to sit and wait for the evil to emerge in the kid. There's a seamlessness to the use of imagery to set tone and convey information. Director Nicholas McCarthy and cinematographer Bridger Nielson have worked together frequently, and it shows. But to say those bells and whistles make it original would be to give sole credit to Vanilla Ice for "Under Pressure." That's a real issue when the gag isn't particularly original to begin with: This film fits neatly into the Bad Seed horror subgenre, along with The Omen, The Good Son, Orphan, and many others, albeit with its own slight wrinkles. They proceed to make pretty much every possible bad choice to enable the horror to roll right along. The Prodigy leads viewers to believe that it's going to rise above the genre when the adults figure out pretty early on that something very wrong is happening.
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