Usually the little heroines in the movie only cause emotion and joy, but sometimes their innocent appearance is deceiving. Sometimes the creators of the pictures endow the girls with superpowers that make others treat them with prejudice. Often babies act as the main villains or turn out to be a symbolic embodiment of evil. Films about a girl with superpowers are released regularly, but the projects listed in this publication are considered the best of them.
In the X-Men style
Among films about a girl with superpowers work by Paul McGuigan and Jennifer U.
Cinema comic “Push” starring Dakota Fanning was freely translated by domestic distributors as “The Fifth Dimension”. The main idea at the heart of the picture is not entirely original, but in form the masterpiece of director Paul McGuigan resembles X-Men. The main character Nick, possessing telekinesis, is helped by young Cassie, who is able to predict the future. Only by joining forces can the heroes resist the sinister corporation.
In the center of the narrative of the painting “Dark Reflections”, directed by Jennifer Yu, a teenager Ruby Daily (Amanda Stenberg), who has a decent set of supernatural abilities. The girl manages to escape from the government camp, where she did not stay of her own free will for several years. The government took such measures after the death of 98% of children in the country. Having escaped beyond the bounds of totalitarian captivity, the girl adjoins a group of the same adolescents who actively use the superpower for survival.
The "surprises" of genetics
In the movie of Felix Fuchssteiner, Timeless. The Ruby Book, London-born Gwendoline Shepherd inherited from her great-grandmother the ability to travel in time. Now the girl can easily be transported into the past. But her every journey causes a chain of mysterious events. A mysterious organization begins to hunt for her, suspecting that Gwendolyn possesses "raven magic."
In 1984, Mark L. Lester made a film about a little girl with superpowers called "Generating Fire." The main character in the film adaptation of Stephen King is eight-year-old Charlie McGee (Drew Barrymore). The child is endowed with the ability to ignite objects with the power of thought, and sometimes she can foresee the near future. The girl is interested in a government organization, from which she is forced to hide with her father. A man has the gift of suggestion. In the finale of the viewer, a grandiose cleansing fire awaits, the baby will incinerate all enemies in one fell swoop.
With telekinesis in life
The ability to move objects with the power of thought is a very common skill among the heroines of films about a girl with superpowers of different genres. In the Brian de Palma horror “Carrie” and his sequel “Telekinesis,” Kimberly Pearce, a key character, with the help of telekinesis, nearly killed all classmates and other students of the school after a humiliating graduation incident. At the same time, the pious mother, who considered her child a fixture of hell, also got despotic. The legendary story of Stephen King inspired many creators making a film about a girl with supernormal abilities at school.
And sad and funny
The film about Matilda, a girl with supernormal abilities, was shot by the famous Danny De Vito. His heroine is a very unusual child. It instantly multiplies multi-digit numbers in the head, has telekinesis and other extraordinary skills. However, parents are extremely indifferent to her achievements. They not only do not support the baby, but are not even interested in how their child lives. The film “Matilda” is positioned as a family comedy, while the project touches on many contemporary issues in the spirit of “fathers and children”, which is not uncommon among films about a girl with supernormal abilities.
Domestic project
Corresponds to the declared theme of the Russian film about the girl with superpowers "The Witch." Director Dmitry Fedorov tells the story of the summer camp. In the center of the story, the girl Tonya is quiet, closed and trusting, but not able to control her supernatural abilities. The unsociable hunted teenager gets the nickname Witch. Soon, unable to endure humiliation and mockery, she will direct her anger at her peers.
In confrontation with government organizations
Continues the list of films about the girl with superpowers, the picture "Morgan". In the work of Luke Scott, events develop on the territory of a secret government laboratory. There the girl Morgan is artificially grown, which is many times superior to ordinary inhabitants in strength and intelligence. However, it is prone to bouts of increased aggression. Risk Assessment Advisor Lee Weathers needs to determine if the experiment is worth continuing. The tape has several drawbacks, but watching the leading woman Kate Mara fight is indescribable pleasure.
About another victim of experiments on children tells the tape "Mission" Serenity ". The key character of the River (Summer Glau) has the gift of foresight and telepathy. The brother rescues the sister from the laboratory of the Alliance, they are taken aboard by the crew of the starship Serenity. Fleeing from the pursuers - the cannibals of the Reapers and the military forces of the Alliance, the team does not even suspect what danger lies in the fragile girl that they sheltered.
In horror
In horror films, little girls bring fear to the viewer no worse than the wild demons of the underworld.
For example, in Christian Alvert’s film “Case 39”, Lilith turns out to be a real succubus monster, who, assuming the guise of an innocent baby, is introduced into families and torments others with terrible visions. The “distribution” also includes a social worker trying to save a child from “bad parents”. The main role was played by Jodelle Ferland.
In the mystical horror Silent Hill by Christoph Gahn, the girl with superpowers Alessa, who was also played by Jodelle Ferland, bifurcates at a certain moment. Innocence and naivety are concentrated in Bright Alessa, and hatred and anger generate a frightening demonic Dark Alessa.
Vampires and zombies
In the history of cinema, there are enough young vampires. Starting from Kirsten Dunst in "Interview with the Vampire" to Chloe Moretz in the American version of "Let Me In" (Lina Leandersson - in Swedish). Of course, their superpowers are of little use. To kill people, to remain a child, is rather a curse. It is not surprising that young vampires turn out to be touching characters that can cause sincere sympathy.
In the center of the plot of the painting "New Era Z" ten-year-old Melanie with transcendental IQ. At the same time, the highest intelligence is not its main superpower, the fact is that because of the genetic mutation, it is both a human and a zombie. Now in her hands is the future of mankind.