![]() ![]() Metallica had a song about Jeffrey Dahmer. So, what's the difference? AC/DC had a song entitled The Nightstalker. I hate it personally but that's a different story. Look at your country music it's full of everything you don't want your precious kids to know about: adultery, cheating, getting drunk, getting into fights and trouble,violence. I grew up in the 1970's and 1980's with hard rock bands like AC/DC, Metallica, Alice Cooper and all kind of classic rock bands that had many different songs based on killing,murder, violence,drug use, pornography. It's a lack of parenting, accountability to teach your kids right from wrong and what is real versus not real. I don't buy nor have I ever bought into any of that BS. Well, of course,there is always the so called "school" of individuals who accuse violent movies even if they are intriguing and suspenseful and entertaining as being bad, evil, immoral, and will make someone's kid go out a commit violent crimes,etc. It's that old argument when parents hated rock music and accused rock and roll of being evil and the epitomy if sex, drugs and everything wrong. As for violence, well, this movie does have significant violence but so do a lot of movies nowadays. I much enjoy good, entertaining,suspense, thriller type movies. Robin Cook is another one I enjoy whose stories are a suspense genre. I'm a big VC Andrews fan but Bad Seed is not a VC Andrews story but it follows like one in similar ways. I saw the first or original movie The Bad Seed. Language includes "piss" and "hell." In a brief scene, teens smoke cigarettes and perhaps weed. The killer sedates someone who knows what she's done and kills her in a fire. A girl causes a lethal seizure in a rival for a prestigious position at school. A car is deliberately dropped on a man working below, causing him to scream and be hospitalized for major injuries. A teen lures a baby to crawl toward an unfenced swimming pool, but disaster is averted. The greatest tension here comes from the constant potential for violence posed by a disturbed teen who kills or maims to eliminate people who get in her way. References are made to the death of the girl's father in the previous film. A follow-up to the 2018 remake, this continues to present the theme of the "good" child who ruthlessly kills secretly, with lots of hidden menace and most of the violence off-screen. ![]() This film isn’t worth the time.Parents need to know that The Bad Seed Returns is a fairly tame horror movie (based on a play by Maxwell Anderson that was later made into a 1956 movie) about a psychopathic young girl who pretends to be perfectly well behaved but eliminates problems in her life through clever, untraceable murders. Otherwise, just watch the original or read a copy of the book. ![]() If you simply must get a taste of this film, find the scene where Emma and Dr. The most genuine attempts at acting in The Bad Seed come from McKenna Grace ( Suburban Gothic) as a much too overtly evil Emma Grossman, the film’s equivalent to Rhoda Penmark, Cara Buono ( Stranger Things) as David’s sister and Emma’s aunt, and Patty McCormack, who portrayed Rhoda herself in the original and gained an Oscar nomination for her performance, as Doctor March, Emma’s psychiatrist.Īll of the other performances are the typical fare of Lifetime films, with Rob Lowe as the head of the mediocrity. When his character is killed in the end, it’s almost a relief from the sheer boredom of his work. His directing is schlocky and poorly done, and his acting as David Grossman, the film’s protagonist, is just as bad. Other than that, this film is a mess.Īn attempt to slap the branding of a genuine psychological horror classic onto a Lifetime schlock horror film, the film is written by Barbara Marshall ( Viral, Wish Upon) with the usual melodramatic Lifetime frills and directed, produced, and led by Rob Lowe ( Parks and Recreation) who is the worst part of the film. The most positive things I can say about this remake of The Bad Seed is that the ending follows the 1954 original book and play by William March more, an ending I prefer, and that it acts as a glowing recommendation for the original film. Another failed attempt by Lifetime to make horror work, “The Bad Seed” remake of the 1956 film is a mistake - failing to deliver more than melodrama. ![]()
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