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.
15 May 1908, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1915, Susanville, California, USA
August 8, 1903 in Summit, New Jersey, USA
14 December 1902, New York City, New York, USA
3 January 1917, Buffalo, New York, USA
February 17, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA
29 March 1919, Columbus, Ohio, USA
13 March 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
12 June 1893, Adair, Oklahoma, USA
23 November 1915, San Francisco, California, USA
21 August 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 20, 1895 in New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
3 March 1900, Vassar, Michigan, USA
1 August 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 December 1945, Long Beach, California, USA
October 1, 1915 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA
26 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
25 March 1921, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
12 December 1911, Council Grove, Kansas, USA
July 18, 2011
An erratic but compelling film that lingers long after the fade-out.
August 14, 2007
Excellent, chilling classic with McCormack as perfect demon child.
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Scandalous, scary and popular, but extremely outdated , this well-acted melodrama was one of the first to deal with criminal conduct as biologically conditioned
October 14, 2011
The dark drama that launched a genre of evil-kid movies. [Blu-ray]
January 26, 2006
1956 was way too soon for an unfettered treatment of the central premise.
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.
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.
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.
July 12, 2012
A near perfect thriller...
July 18, 2011
Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script.
