"The Innocents" is a supernatural movie about children in an apartment complex who start to develop psychic powers. While not exactly ground-breaking in the paranormal genre, I thought it was interesting to see how different family situations, personalities, and the world of adults and children reacted with the introduction of psychic abilities. Children are often thought to live in a world of make-believe or playful nonsense but in this film we see adults who are terrifyingly oblivious to the social world of their offspring and limit communication due to lack of belief in the validity of children's experiences.
This movie reminded me a lot of the 1980 Japanese manga comic, "Domu: A Child's Dream," in which a young psychic girl must battle against a psychic old man who is terrorizing the population of a large apartment complex in Japan.
"The Innocents" was a much darker movie than I expected so be wary of violence toward children if you plan to watch this. It's basically a toned-down version of X-Men except with lonely isolated children ... so basically X-Kids instead of X-Men.
I liked how this movie compared how the home-life of different children can alter their adjustment to the sudden gift of power. If a child is raised in a loving home, there is a greater chance for them to use psychic powers for good while if they are abused at home they leave that familiar place and do familiar things with psychic powers -- becoming abusers themselves. This scenario goes back to the nature vs nurture argument though where the opposite could also be true: an abused child might use their powers to prevent abuse while a loved child might use their powers to do bad because of an ever-present expectation of love no matter what.
Here's a movie trailer: