“What’s Wrong With Miles?” in the First Trailer for The Prodigy

Troubled, potentially possessed little kids are of course a staple of the horror genre with roots all the way back to The Exorcist, but rarely do we get a first trailer for that sort of movie with as much patience and gravitas as The Prodigy. This film, which we’d never heard of before now, just became a 2019 horror movie to watch. It’s currently projected to hit theaters on Feb. 9, 2018.

Details on The Prodigy are very scarce, with a tagline that is only one sentence long: “A mother concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.” That’s certainly clear from the trailer below, which sees young Miles undergoing hypnosis. It’s a long, entrancing scene, as the hypnotist slowly brings Miles under his power and helps him regress through earlier life experiences. It all seems to be going in an understandable direction, right up to the point when the hypnotist starts addressing “the person who’s taken residence inside his body.”