The Bad Seed
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Movie Reviews of The Bad Seed
Movie Review: Give me my shoes! GIVE THEM BACK TO ME!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh this is just one of the lines you'll enjoy over and over again as you watch this movie countless times. A sweet little girl is really a cold blooded killer and has a line and excuse for every occasion. The story begins with an off-screen drowning of a classmate at at a school picnic. You see the little boy was awarded a 'writing medal' for best penmenship. The little girl wanted the medal and thought she deserved to have it. So she winds up with the medal.
She later burns up a janitor in his basement, and drives her mother to poisening herself. Such is the life of a military family. The father is on the movie at the beginning and the end. He's an Air Force officer who is completely lost as to what is going on.
Some say the acting is bad, but I wholeheartedly disagree. The alcoholic manic depressive mother of the drowned boy should have won an award. You can feel her pain and misery, and you'll stay on the edge of your seat as she tries to piece together the happenings at the picnic.
But the little girl steals the show. She gets her just deserts in the end, even though it's a bit far fetched. Getting struck by lightning?
However this film was meant to have a serious side. It's another take on the old "Heredity VS Environment" argument. The little girl had a loving mother and a wonderful little life, but she is adopted and we learn who her father really was.....
In the tradition of fine old movies with shock value. This is placed near the top. You'll love the ending credits when the cast is all introduced and our little demon gets a good spanking.
Movie Review: i have the right to know what happened to the medal
Summary: 5 Stars
The bad seed. I am 13, and i was first introduced to that movie when i was eight. and i really loved it. now today is till love it. it really has no flaws, its a well acted, brillant concept classic. it is about a eight year old little girl named rhoda who gets whatever she wants. loved unconditionally by her parents, worshipped by her landlord monica, a know it all, and hated by leroy the handyman, Rhoda is the first child to start the whole line of killer children in show buisness. but behind the angelic face, and pretty dress lies a heart of unfeeling coldness. she is a serial killer, and she feels no mercy for her unfortunate victims. when a classmate of rhodas, wins a medal that rhoda wants, rhoda gets jeaoulus, resulting in the poor boy in a wharf, with half moon marks on his forehead, and bruises on his hands. the headmistress of rhodas school tells Christine rhodas tense mother, that she thinks rhoda had something to do with it. christine later finds out about her daughters murder tendecies,shocked and scared she dosnt know what to do. she loves her poor little daughter with all her heart, despire the fact she is brutal and dangerous. and she dosnt want her daughter to be locked up, but these deaths keep happening...and she is drawn into a tornado of feelings and emotions leading to a die hard exciting end. this movie is very good, sometimes a little overdramatic, but it is sad, and thrilling, and the music is terrific. starring patty mccormack, nancy kelly, eileen heckardt, evelyn varden, jesse white, paul fix, and bill hopper. it is good for a old movieMovie Review: A Classic Must See
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this movie on TV when I was a kid, and I can't even count the number of times I have seen it since. I first was happy to have it on tape, now I bought it on DVD from Amazon. I just can't watch this movie too many times.
This story is from a book by William March, published in 1954. It was made into a broadway play in 1955 and in 1956 the entire cast from the play was used for the movie. Patty McCormack was outstanding as Rhoda Penmark, "the bad seed". The entire cast is fantastic, and the writing, direction and cinematography keeps you riveted until the very last moment.
This film had an alternate ending that I saw off and on when it was on TV years ago. I finally got a copy of the book several years ago, and the end of the book is different than either one of them. Not only do I highly recommend this DVD, but I also recommend that you watch the movie first (usually I would do it the other way around) just so that you can see how faithfully the writer of the screenplay followed the book - until the very end. I was surprised to see that it doesn't match either ending that I had seen in the movie!
This book and film was very shocking for its time, and people had a very hard time accepting that a little girl could be a killer. That is what made it such a unique and awesome thriller.
One thing I love at the end of the movie is that they bring out each actor to take a bow just like they would in the live play. They all deserved Oscars as did the movie.
Movie Review: "THE BAD SEED" is finally coming to DVD.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film holds a special place for me: Scenery-chewing acting at every turn. A perfect little girl who kills as easily as she skips rope. A loud and intrusive landlady (whom most of us secretly hope the kid will "off" sooner than later!). A creepy janitor who has a terrific scene in which he tries to scare the child as he talks about little blue electric chairs for little boys and little pink electric chairs for little girls. It just goes on. First a terrific novel by the under-rated William March (check out his "Company K" if you want to read a powerful anti-war book), then a stage adaptation, and, finally, the film. With stage cast pretty much intact, the film had to "clean up" the pessimism of the ending, and that is the single biggest flaw, in my opinion. In fact, the film shows the last lines of the book but then adds the happier ending, followed by a "curtain call" (not always seen in previous VHS editions)in which the cast reappears as if on stage in order to further distance the audience from the horror of this tale of a murderous little girl. Despite all the 1950s white-washing, the film still has Patty McCormack (Rhoda), Henry Jones (LeRoy) and Eileen Heckart (Mrs. Daigle), who deliver the goods and then some. The rest of the cast is okay, but these three give the entire film its punch. I sometimes think it was reading the book and seeing this film when I was young that made me forego having children. Maybe "The Bad Seed" is cinema's ultimate answer to birth control.Movie Review: Boy, She sure Got Zapped, didn't she???
Summary: 5 Stars
This is exactly what a host of a local show called "Dialing for Dollars" said back in 1970. The movie that day was of course "The Bad Seed". My mother and I roared at that for sure!!
And so my love affair with "The Bad Seed" continues for more than 35 years. I first saw the film on TV as a child...
All my mother used to talk about was this film, and how bad Patty McCormack's character was. And how Henry Jones saw right through her!
I finally purchased this on DVD earlier this summer, and watched it alot! And with the Commentary also. I did not like the commentary, and who is Charles Busch??? All he talks about is Judy Garland, Cross-dressing and so forth!!! This movie is not about this!!! He was a poor choice for Patty McCormack to comment with.
He calls the character "a little bitch" which is totally wrong!!The Rhoda Penmark character is deeper than that! A homicidal maniac is not a little bitch~~ there has to be more layers to her than that~~
This guy was totally off the mark and out of his league!!!
What they should have done was TRY to find a living member of the cast or the crew who could work with her~~ Too bad they didn't do this a few years ago when Eileen Heckart was still living. That wasn't so long ago and she would have been a hoot with Patty~~
Anyway, this was a fabulous movie, and i have no complaints.
I recommend it to all~ young & old!