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Synopsis

Taylor Schilling moves from tough prisons to troubled parenthood in this familial horror story that cuts right to the core of every parent’s fear about their child. Schilling plays Sarah, whose son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) is demonstrating increasingly disturbing behavior.

Are the boy’s strange and sometimes violent actions simply an expression of him being a bad seed, or is there some supernatural force at work? Sarah and her husband (Peter Mooney) try everything, but the more they learn about Miles the more terrified they become.

Cast

  • Jackson Robert Scott
  • Taylor Schilling
  • Peter Mooney
  • Colm Feore
  • Paul Fauteux
  • Brittany Allen
  • Paula Boudreau
  • Elisa Moolecherry
  • Olunike Adeliyi
  • Janet Land

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#intense
#surprising
#terrifying
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#predictable
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Verified Review
#creepy
#intense
#surprising

this movie was an edge of your seat creepy and also a few good jump scenes ....

WJ
Wendy J
Verified Review
#predictable
#notmyfave
#dry
#boring

Where’s the horror? Not what was expected, waste of money. 🤷🏾‍♀️

DJ
Dara J

Metacritic

38
Feb 8, 2019

Still, the frights, with Mom seeing the hand-chopping serial killer’s face (Paul Fauteux) on her little boy’s body, the stabbings and threats of worse to come (hilariously foreshadowed to death) deliver the requisite pulse-stopping punch...If that’s all you’re hoping for in a horror picture, fine. If not, you’ve been warned.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
70
Feb 7, 2019

It could have been smarter without sacrificing pacing or chills. That’s not a dealbreaker — target audiences will likely be satisfied by its many pluses — but the film is good enough that you wish it went all the way.

Metacritic review by Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
50
Feb 7, 2019

Another stroke of casting fortune was landing Scott as the disturbing Miles. I hesitate to applaud any business decision that encourages a kid to channel the spirit of a rapist and murderer, but the young actor accomplishes what I can only assume The Prodigy set out to do: make you reconsider parenthood, and just how much paprika you should stock.

Metacritic review by Barry Hertz
Barry Hertz
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)