But beating both into cinemas like some demonic pre-teen hellbent on poisoning the popcorn!
isThe Prodigy, out Feb. 8.
McCarthy himself admits that he is a connoisseur of the evil-kid genre.
“It’s just a delicious horror trope,” says the filmmaker.
McCarthy recommends five more evil kid movies below.
But everything that is in this subgenre is inside that film.
I think that movie’s fascinating."
I saw it in a movie theatre with an audience that was completely unprepared for it.
The only way they can be stopped is if they have their hands cut off.
No one ever explains why it’s happening, which is part of the power of the movie.
It’s a movie that I return to every few years because it is so strange."
The Children (2008)
“There’s actuallyanothermovie calledThe Children.
That’s a British film which is really interesting, that totally delivers on the evil-kid subgenre.
It becomes a siege movie with these kids attacking grownup characters.
That is kind of an overlooked horror movie of the 21st century.”
Who Can Kill a Child?
[Laughs] The title is such a turn-off.
It’s like the worst date movie you could imagine.
Watch the trailer forThe Prodigyabove.
