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A gifted young boy begins to terrorise his family in this horror thriller from the director of The Pact. More
- 42 %Rotten
tomatoes® - 6 reviews
Directed by Nicholas McCarthy
Horror
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The Prodigy | Reviews
42%83 reviews
While it lacks gripping, nail-biting tension, the
unnerving horror that underscores the family drama brings it to life. Full review The movie's occasional chills do little to obscure the thin plotting, problematic pacing and a central mystery that's left aggravatingly vague. Full
review McCarthy's direction is so sleepy that a number of key scenes fizzle out before they can pay off with the next big jump scare. Full review [A] tense and gripping, persuasively acted horror-thriller that evokes such evil-child flicks as "The Omen," "The Exorcist," "The Bad Seed" and
"The Good Son," while carving its own pulse-pounding, if inherently far-fetched niche in the process.Variety
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Roger Ebert
Los Angeles Times
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IndieWire
"The Prodigy" could stand to stretch its R-rating to even ickier ends, but its psychological surprises are the ones that really stick.
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Hollywood Reporter
Struggling throughout with issues of structure and pacing, Nicholas McCarthy's horror feature threatens to debase standards for the genre to levels that even undiscriminating thrillseekers seem likely to reject.
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The Prodigy is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.