Brightburn (2019) ★★★ Quote:
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What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
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Written by cousins Mark and Bryan Gunn (produced by James Gunn, Brian's brother), this looks to invert superhero tropes and set them in a horror film.
As a concept, it's intriguing – the idea of Kal El as a malevolent child is interesting and could have been made into a great film. Sadly, this isn't that great film, but one with a couple of wince-inducing injuries (the one with the eyeball bests everything Lucio Fulci did!) and a couple of genuinely creepy scenes and well worked jump scares.
It's a film with loads of potential it's a shame that it doesn't deliver.