The Bad Seed (1956)

Review: The Bad Seed (1956)

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden,

Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly
Patty McCormack
Patty McCormack
Henry Jones
Henry Jones
Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart
Evelyn Varden
Evelyn Varden

Plot: Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

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Beware the children!

Beware the children!

In the past year or so I’ve seen five “evil kids” horror movies. Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan (2009) uses the classic “cuckoo” storyline: a couple with one young child decide to adopt a needy orphan, in this case a strangely […]

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