The Bad Seed
A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer. She keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of the little girl's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
13 March 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
September 20, 1895 in New York City, New York, USA
3 March 1900, Vassar, Michigan, USA
October 1, 1915 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA
1 August 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 September 1915, Susanville, California, USA
12 June 1893, Adair, Oklahoma, USA
August 8, 1903 in Summit, New Jersey, USA
21 August 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
February 17, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA
October 31, 2011
The 'secret' villain is the missing father - or we should say, the mother for trying to child-rear by herself ... The bad seed is dead - but single parents, be warned.
October 01, 2011
...it's hard now to see what all the fuss was about.
March 25, 2006
Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play.
August 14, 2007
Excellent, chilling classic with McCormack as perfect demon child.
January 01, 2000
Overlong, stiff, and about as suspenseful as a detergent commercial.
October 23, 2008
This melodrama about a child with an inbred talent for homicide is pretty unpleasant stuff on its own.
July 12, 2012
A near perfect thriller...
January 26, 2006
1956 was way too soon for an unfettered treatment of the central premise.
October 14, 2011
The dark drama that launched a genre of evil-kid movies. [Blu-ray]
June 29, 2005
Scandalous, scary and popular, but extremely outdated , this well-acted melodrama was one of the first to deal with criminal conduct as biologically conditioned
July 18, 2011
Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script.
July 18, 2011
An erratic but compelling film that lingers long after the fade-out.
