![]() ![]() ![]() Miles crushes an insect in his hand.Įight Years Old – While playing hide-and-seek with his babysitter Zoe, Miles enters a strange trance. Elaine Strasser tests Miles’ aptitude and subsequently recommends enrollment at the exclusive Penmark school. Miles shows early signs of developing strange behavior.ĥ Years, 5 Months – Dr. Impressed that he is already developing language skills, a doctor identifies Miles as a potential genius.Ģ6 Months, 2 Weeks – Sarah talks to John about looking into preschools for gifted children. John Blume accompanies his wife in the hospital.Ģ0 Weeks, 4 Days – Sarah confirms to a friend that Miles has heterochromia. Police gun down Scarka when they subsequently raid his house.įox Chapel, Pennsylvania – Shortly after Scarka dies, Sarah Blume gives birth to baby Miles. ‘The Thrush Creek Killer,’ who previously murdered nine women. James escapes the home of serial killer Edward Scarka, a.k.a. This film doesn’t show a smidgeon of her capacity for wit and fun.Montgomery County, Ohio – Aug– With her right hand having been cut off, Margaret St. This film is bad news for everyone who remembers how great Schilling was in Orange Is the New Black. That distinguished Canadian actor Colm Feore is lumbered with the role of careworn priest/psychiatrist/wise-elder figure who has to do all the explaining – and his character is dispensed with as clumsily as everyone and everything else. And the genuinely disquieting possibilities of his precocious cleverness are just forgotten about in favour of standard-issue horror cliches. He speaks Hungarian dialect in his sleep. Miles has violent episodes that he can’t remember afterwards. This kid becomes eight-year-old Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) who is adorable but given to weird mood swings and staring up at adults through his lashes in the manner of demon kids everywhere. Taylor Schilling (from Orange Is the New Black) plays Sarah, who gives birth to a child at the exact cosmically malign moment that a Hungarian-speaking serial killer is shot dead by cops. It’s an unscary scary movie that quickly abandons the very thing that might have made it interesting (ie, the disturbing quality of childhood genius – which is to say, the thing in the title) in favour of tiresome jump scares, bad child acting, bad grownup acting and untied plot strands designed to facilitate a terrible franchise, like The Conjuring or Insidious. Is it irony? Is it comedy? Is it some form of pop-art primitivism? No. S ome films are so uncompromisingly bad that their awfulness triggers a spasm of second-guessing and self-doubt. ![]()
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