The Bad Seed | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | November 22, 2011
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A chilling account of an amoral & manipulative child. Doesn't need a high-body count to be an effective horror film. Adapted from the stage.
| genre | Horror |
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| synopsis | Grade-schooler Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is sweet, smart … and inherently evil! After a school chum dies during a picnic, no one suspects Rhoda, except the janitor (Henry Jones) of her apartment building. But when Rhoda's mother, Christine (Nancy Kelly), finds out that her own mother is a cold-blooded killer, she begins to suspect Rhoda might be the victim of some faulty genetic wiring. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play. |
| lead actors | Patty McCormack | Eileen Heckart | Henry Jones | Nancy Kelly |
| director | Mervyn LeRoy |