Yet the movie’s occasional chills do little to obscure the thin plotting, problematic pacing and a central mystery that’s left aggravatingly vague. Enter a lanky psychologist with a very particular set of skills (Colm Feore), none of which prepare him for those of his pint-size patient. Miles might be a little devil, but it’s not the Prince of Darkness who’s messing with his head. ![]() If this isn’t evidence enough of Miles’ bad-seed credentials, he also has one brown eye and one blue - weird eyes being a dead giveaway in the evil-spawn genre. Further red flags include sleep-chatting in Hungarian, abusing his babysitter and battering a classmate with a wrench. In “The Prodigy,” a ho-hum horror movie given a mild boost by its credible performances, a small boy named Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) begins to exhibit disturbingly supernormal intelligence.
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