Brightburn

Tori and Kyle Calder live on a farm outside Brightburn, Kansas. Years into a struggle to conceive, they find an answer when a spacecraft crashes in their field one night — inside is an infant they name Brandon and raise as their own.

As Brandon approaches puberty he begins sleepwalking to the barn where his spacecraft is hidden, drawn to it by something he can't articulate. The ship is awakening something in him — whispering in an alien language, urging him to "take the world." He discovers he has superhuman strength, invulnerability, heat vision, and the ability to fly.

His personality darkens. He becomes obsessed with a classmate named Caitlyn and forces her hand against her will at school; when she recoils, he later breaks her hand. His parents begin noticing disturbing behavior — violent drawings, a coldness that was never there before. Kyle and Tori rationalize and dismiss, because he is their son and they love him.

The bodies begin. Brandon kills the mother of a classmate who witnesses something she shouldn't — crushing her jaw and dragging her under her own lawnmower. He uses his heat vision to cause a car crash that kills his uncle Noah. When Kyle finally confronts him directly, Brandon murders him while wearing a crude mask sewn from his old bedsheets — the Brightburn symbol stamped across its face.

Tori tries to flee with Brandon on a small plane, but somewhere above the Kansas plains she finally accepts what her son is. She attacks him with a shard from his own spacecraft — the one material that can wound him. Brandon, bleeding and betrayed by the only person he still trusted, tears her from the plane and drops her from thousands of feet up. He destroys the wreckage to stage an accident.

The film ends on a news montage: Brandon — now fully masked — is destroying ships, downing aircraft, and leveling cities across the world. A conspiracy theorist played by Michael Rooker warns of multiple emerging superpowered threats, hinting at a broader dark-universe mythology. Whatever fell in that Kansas field was only the beginning.