The 2019 horror film Brightburn puts a dark spin on the Superman mythos by following a young boy with superhuman powers who uses them for evil instead of good. Directed by David Yarovesky and produced by James Gunn, the film stars Jackson A. Dunn, Elizabeth Banks, and David Denman.
Brightburn is a creepy, bloody genre mashup that fails to fully explore the fascinating questions it raises about the dark side of being a superhero.
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When I saw this movie in theaters, in the scene where the kid throws the lawnmower high into the sky, someone in the theater yelled, "YEET!" and I'm sorry you can't experience what was the actual best part of the movie. Everything else here is creepy in an edgelord kind of way, made especially unsettling given the young characters.
Fake version of Superman by James Gunn.
I won't lie, I kinda avoided this movie because all I did was hear bad things...
When will I learn to stop listening to the internet?
This was a great flick! Dark, creepy, when it did gore it was GORY!
Loved it, totally adding it into my regular rotation.
