Orange Is the New Black star Taylor Schilling's new horror movie The Prodigy is apparently so scary, it had to be re-edited.
The movie stars Schilling as Sarah whose young son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) has started to show signs of disturbing behaviour that indicates a supernatural – and evil – force has taken him over.
And test audiences just couldn't stop screaming at one particular moment, according to director Nicholas McCarthy.
"The first time we previewed the movie, there is a section where people screamed so loud that we had to go back and re-edit the scene that followed it, because people were still recovering from what they had just seen, and they were missing the dialogue," he told Entertainment Weekly.
The Prodigy is written by Jeff Buhler who also worked on the upcoming remake of Pet Sematary and McCarthy was full of praise for the script.
"For the first half, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is a really interesting, and creepy, and twisted variation on the evil kid subgenre'. But then the script just went to this place that I couldn't believe," he teased, adding that was what made him want to make the movie.
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We'll have to wait until next year to find out if The Prodigy lives up to that hype as it hits US cinemas on February 8, 2019.
No UK release date has been confirmed just yet.
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