The Bad Seed (1956) Official Trailer - Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack Movie HD

The Bad Seed (1956) Official Trailer - Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack Movie HD
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A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer.
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[@1805movie]

This film is so underrated.

[@valianttruth3745]

Agreed!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Likewise. From a popular Broadway play and novel (Maxwell Anderson and William March, respectively).

[@dhsf5937]

It's not.

[@amylynnmorris7999]

@@dhsf5937 it's wonderfully rated. Idiots like making the same comment that is just the opposite.

[@what.the...]

To think of how many films were made, AND this ONE has stayed with me since I first saw it. It's a CLASSIC. . .but sooo much more 💗

[@poetcomic1]

My niece who was the prettiest little blond girl, saw this when she was about 14 and kept teasing her mother for a week - "Oh, mummy! You are the nicest sweetest mummy in the whole world..."

[@SherryAnnOfTheWest]

Way to creep out her mom!!!! Hahahahaha!!!! I hope she put her hair in blonde braids first .... y'know .... even though she was a little monster, you can't help but like Rhoda Penmark! That's a real tribute to Patty MacCormack!!!!

[@zennabella1676]

@@SherryAnnOfTheWest I TELL YOU, THIS WAS A FANTASTIC MOVIE. I BOUGHT THE DVD OF IT. ALL THE ACTING IN THIS MOVIE IS SUPERB. EVEN THE GIRL IS A FANTASTIC ACTRESS AND SHE WAS SO YOUNG IN THIS MOVIE, SUCH TALENT.

[@cindyheadon9005]

😂😂😂

[@dlperk5035]

Lol!

[@esotericenigmamelaninshe1253]

Lol well that girl on the movie was far from a pretty little girl

[@jeanetlockett2455]

I finished watching this today in my media class, I thought black & white movies were boring and lame, but this film changed my perspective. TBH this movie is better than the colorized to me... no bashing.

[@jeanetlockett2455]

@Carol Bogdanowitz Okay, Thanks for the recommendation :P

[@bernaebeatty2138]

Great movie I enjoy it old classic

[@mattbernabe]

Also check out 'All About Eve' (1950).

[@shellie5617]

Night Of The Hunter....1955 Robert Mitchum

[@Filmtense]

Psycho (1960) is one of my favorites of all time

[@dipsydoodle7988]

I saw this movie as a child and it nearly scared me into never wanting kinds of my own. 😳 Tbh, I still find myself being thankful everyday that I have a normal kid. This movie will scar you. 😂

[@joshbrekke6374]

Same here! When I was 9 I saw it and it scared the heck out of me. Ever since I had worried if my kids would ever be a bad seed. Thankfully they all 4 are great kids. Shortly after this I really got into the original Twilight Zone reruns and still love them today almost 40 years later. Also the original Universal Monster Movies.

[@joshbrekke6374]

The bad seed comes on soon today here on TCM around 11:30am, after Children of the Dammed. Then The Wolf Man, The Haunting, and Them!

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@joshbrekke6374 cool!

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@joshbrekke6374 Twilight Zone is the best!

[@hurpaderpp]

if you like this movie check out orphan, and the good son

[@Shatamx]

3 Oscar nods in the Acting department. This movie has some of the best acting you will see. Including one by a child.

[@edpoe4591]

💯 🎥🍿

[@stephenfermoyle4578]

over acting is more like it

[@lisascorp]

​@@stephenfermoyle4578yes it's pretty dramatic, but considering the context and content I think it was perfect. The murdered boys mother was excellent. She played the best grieving drunk, bar none.

[@adc2327]

One of my all time favorites. I got to meet Patty Mc Cormack a few years ago. It was a pleasure!

[@magsy21]

Great photography, play with shadows and light. Acting is entertaining. A very violent movie, and yet not a single act of violence is actually depicted…an avant-garde in cinematic achievement for its era. Love this movie.

[@dredre_lj2003]

Not til Psycho 4 years later

[@dredre_lj2003]

@nickxero2740 I meant until it becomes a lil more violent Movie

[@magsy21]

@nickxero2740 Somewhere, there’s a documentary (?) or film clip, that discusses the making of this movie. It really touched nerves when it premiered, because of the subject: a, “sugar-n-spice, everything nice” concept of little girls was troubled. Unnerved and shocked, a sweet child would possibly be so wicked, especially a girl. It also got people examining child psychology, especially pediatric abnormal psychology. My mom said when it first came out, she knew a few expecting mothers, who lost sleep over whether or not their unborn child would be a cute little murderous monster! There’ve been many movies about children that caused people to shudder. What makes this one so unique, was the time it was made. The era.

[@pamelafrostdennis7848]

A classic must-see movie. Patty McCormack is chilling.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Agreed! Her very character is, when need be, ice-cold... Right to the bone!

[@LynzeeFord]

Even back then, they asked for "No spoilers"

[@Christiangjf]

They did a great job because I thought I knew what this movie was about just by looking at the thumbnail and title but after watching this I'm not sure anymore.

[@micaela7159]

Luke Watson what did you think it was about?

[@TeardropGhost]

I guess that you can see something like this in the beginning of Witness for the prosecutuon

[@lisascorp]

​@@ChristiangjfI hope you watched movie. It is really good.

[@mskiara18]

I enjoy the film, seeing that the emotion from the cast including from Patty McCormack to Ms. Nancy Kelly displaying an emotional mother. I am sad Ms. Kelly did not do many interviews, I would love to know how she felt about The Bad Seed I hope the deceased cast are resting in peace.

[@DDumbrille]

Kelly was the worst of the entire cast, except perhaps 'One-Note' Patty McCormack.

[@giamocatasmr1128]

Lol I'm bringing you back to this comment

[@poetcomic1]

@@DDumbrille She was a Broadway actress and a bit 'gallery conscious' but quite up to maintaining a delightful level of hysteria.

[@DDumbrille]

@@poetcomic1 You're THE only one I've ever heard describe the film or the play as 'delightful'. Which proves my point.

[@poetcomic1]

@@DDumbrille Sort of Grand Guignol delight with a Turn of the Screw vibe.

[@BOLLOCKS1968]

Mother, what would you give me for a basket of kisses? I'll give you a bottle of sleeping pills! I mean vitamins lol. Evil little girl! Great movie! Cheers

[@josephp9747]

See, you can make a good movie without all the gore, blood and bad language 👍

[@DDumbrille]

Are you calling this a 'good' movie? It's painfully, horribly dated, with stilted, awkward performances, except Eileen Heckart's....

[@arnoldamaral7406]

DouglassD the mother is non compos mentis indeed and the father's up having affairs, Arnold Bourbon Amaral Bessie Denker indeed!

[@micaela7159]

DouglassD How so? I didn’t see anything wrong with it?

[@ivanterrones2692]

@@DDumbrille "awkward performances"? This film had 3 Oscar Nominations for its female performances.

[@DDumbrille]

@@ivanterrones2692 Only because it was considered so shocking back 64 years ago. And none of them won...

[@lisafoos8976]

This is an amazing story. The acting is awesome. I am blown away by how good this is. I was a new mom and this scared me half to death. lol I'll never forget the first time I watched it. I rented it with my mother-in-law. We loved it.

[@TheFilm2001forall]

I watched the movie today, great film!

[@JacionBryant]

This is a certified hood classic

[@jeriannaparis7979]

Great movie The actors and acting was phenomenal

[@kirstijohnson8555]

Hands down one of my all time favourites movies! I just picked up the Blu-Ray of it today!

[@KAYA2COOKS010]

As kids, this movie usually came on late at night, but that was a perfect time to watch it. Just classic. I don't know anyone that didn't like this movie.

[@Y2KFroggyAngel]

I’m here since my mom wants me and my sister to watch this so bad, she loves this movie

[@jacquelinerussell8530]

LOVE the late Henry Jones role as Leroy "I believe you did it" 🤪 You killed that lil boy with your shoes"

[@haveanicedave1551]

he was good, even against Monica too.

[@lj9496]

Hahaha I LOVE the banter between her and Leroy… my dad laughed and made me love this movie :)

[@jacquelinerussell8530]

Lolololol

[@zennabella1676]

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE, ITS VERY GOOD AND THE ACTING IS ABSOLUTELY SUPERB!!!!!

[@katwells6278]

Eileen Heckart and Leroy Jones - both excellent

[@stephenconnell]

Worth noting in the light of 2023 these bad seeds exist more than ever sadly 😢

[@gregoryfarshtey6856]

Do they? Or do we just know about more of them because of the Internet? Pre-Web, most people only knew what was going on in their town or state.

[@BeverlyDillon2]

If you have a child like this get them help. But don't let them know what you will do or you will die by their hand. Sometimes it pass down in genes

[@sheilahouston8242]

Bevey Dillon LOLLLL 😂😂😂😂😂! I AM A FOSTER PARENT AND I HAVE THIS KID NOW! EVERYBODY LOVES HER! SHES SMART, CHARMING, AND BEAUTIFUL, HOWEVER .. SHES ALSO EXTREME ATTENTION SEEKING, HATEFUL, SNEAKY, AND WILL YELL AT ME LIKE SHES 40 YEARS OLD!!!!! PRAY FOR ME! :'(😵. I WANT TO LIIIIIIIVE! 😱

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Sheila Houston Get rid now!!! Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@micaela7159]

Sheila Houston Could be issues with her feeling like no body wants her before so she has to despretly attention seek

[@pedmst]

@@sheilahouston8242 If you are afraid call her DHR worker and let her know your feelings. Can you give me her initials?

[@paulortiz2035]

@@sheilahouston8242 sorry but that's a different movie!

[@santinowilliams693]

Thanks for this preview I would like to see this film again and have been looking for where I could see it again, very good film, well acted and presented and the story line overall is great especially for its time and era the subject matter it touches on was ahead of its time and touched on a matter noone could imagine or want to believe and accept about children especially if they're yours and people overall, the acting is spot on very good performances by all.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Santino Williams Turner Classic Movies runs it about once a year. I have it recorded on my DVR I watch it about once a year. The mother is so worthless she's Tore Up From the Floor Up and Rhoda knew it. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@TheDuchessClub]

One of my favorite movies.

[@AceKite00]

I remember my theater teacher showing this to us in my senior year, almost 10yrs ago. I remember being completely enthralled and excited every time Rhoda was on-screen. Her mischievous, cunning, and devious nature had me thrilled, while nearly everyone else in class (understandably so) disliked her character. I also recall how i was always considered the best actor, and it felt good to actually excel in something and be praised. Thinking about it now, I've always enjoyed characters like Rhoda, such as Light from Death Note or Mark from Saw. I feel as if I've suddenly come to a realization about myself, and it's all thanks to this old movie.

[@wexfordrob]

The realisation that you’re a psychopath ?

[@goodburger1114]

Smug much?

[@carolannpacificadam1944]

Lololololol

[@jessyleppert2]

I met Patty McCormack and she was very nice

[@jamesage24]

From watching her on The Ropers, she seems like she would be really nice.

[@jamiecee4960]

Watching this on AMC. No telling how many times I've seen this movie. Still good. 💝 Well was watching it. TV messed up. Storms nearby. Ugh.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Eileen Heckard should of gotten an Academy Award. She was incredible. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@markvito746]

Claude Dagels mother was the best performance in the fulm.. here here 🙌

[@LawTzuTao]

This movie released a quarter century before I was born and it's one of my favorite films of all time!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Classic film with a strange plot. A bit of background: When The Bad Seed ran on Broadway in 1954 and '55, while the public enjoyed the Maxwell Anderson play, the Pulitzer Prize Committee, headed by Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., was pressured into not giving the award to The Bad Seed due to its "evil little girl" theme. Instead, they gave the Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was also made into a movie.

[@romerjusu3804]

The movies is filmed like a play.

[@waaaaaahaaaa]

I saw this movie at about 10 and I wasnt scared but that lighting part traumatized me forever.

[@warmlantern0000]

I saw this as a kid. Greatest movie !!!! Also Whatever happened to Baby Jane

[@cooperminion825]

So the guy who played Michah, the sheriff, in The Rifleman was also in this. Cool!

[@DmackTV]

That actor is Paul Fix. He also often played a District Attorney in Perry Mason when Perry was defending a case outside of LA County. And William Hopper who plays Rhoda's father here played Paul Drake on Perry Mason. Just a bit of useless trivia.

[@cooperminion825]

@@DmackTV also cool

[@JacionBryant]

Rip to everyone from this movie

[@kaleoy7584]

She would scare the devil out of Regan (The Exorcist) and Damien (The Omen).

[@abigailcarthy1451]

Thanks Robert England I will give this film a watch

[@egglady]

This is an absolutely GREAT movie! The cast is perfect. The only flaw is the ending that was changed from the original, much darker ending of the book and play.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Might I ask: What was the original ending, and just how "Dark" was it? It sounds intriguing!

[@123thebasics]

This is an EXCELLENT move!! 😃🤗🤩👏🏾👏🏾

[@mercymaingi1724]

I just watched it..and its remakes...loved them

[@jeremytiffee962]

DOES THE ORIGINAL BAD SEEM LIKE A PLAY INSTEAD Of A MOVIE

[@lisascorp]

In a way yes, but not really. It's a heavily dramatically acted movie. At the end they bow and do curtain calls and are introduced separately. There are only a few different scenery places. The living room. Backyard. Etc. Also, the talk is of psychology and is it nature (genes) or nurture when one is a bad seed. We are still trying to figure that out today.

[@rickeyboyer7188]

Hmm. Can't quite recall ever having seen this particular monstrous masterpiece before, and not because it was solely before my time, either; however, I genuinely do love me some old, vintage black and white gems from yesterday (same with the colored gems, as well), and I just finished viewing the classic trailer for this specific nostalgic nightmare before writing this. And to my ever-loving surprise, it even featured the late/great Paul Fix, aka Marshall Micha Torrance, himself, from one of my all-time favorite retro TV westerns to date... The Rifleman! Yeah, I would honestly help myself to this movie for his own stellar performance, alone!

[@steveweinstein3222]

"Did you ever know a little girl with so many social obligations?"

[@JacionBryant]

The crazy thing is the little girl from the movie is still alive

[@monkfan72]

As an adult, she played the neighbor in the Three's Company spinoff called The Ropers.

[@jamesage24]

​@@monkfan72As you know, she was the exact opposite in that role: a truly good, loving, charming wife.

[@tomjones2348]

They really had the craft of film making down at this time..,but they did not know how to make a trailer using the same finesse. I wonder what Ridley Scott would have don't for the trailer of this film:-)

[@markvito746]

Ridley Scott??? Like he woukd waste his time with just acting and dialogue ... what film school are you saying you're from ?? Camp kikake??

[@successfulexcellent422]

After Claud won the prize, he should have kept it at home. That way, it would have been safe, and he would have also been safe, because Rodah would not have had an excuse for bothering him at 🏫.

[@jadebeaut4463]

She would of found one

[@janetlieb2507]

Great movie! We see rhoda survived and is a therapist in new Bad Seed Movie!

[@RETROGEMS]

Wow, thank you for mentioning this! I had no idea they did a current remake with a gender swap (father instead of mother). As a huge fan of the original movie & novel by William March, I am intrigued! Definitely wanna see how they tackled this story, this time around.

[@janetlieb2507]

@@RETROGEMS the movie is very good. Chilling!

[@peterehsman8831]

It's a must watch.

[@edgyhousewife]

I miss the drama of old films

[@edpoe4591]

Great movie thriller scary black n white 🎥🍿 seen it multiples time

[@clintonearlwalker]

There is actually a remake of this movie from like 2018, Patty McCormack has a role as a psychologist, I think she's 73 years old. It's a pretty good movie.

[@barbarawhite6274]

What a movie, my grand kids can see this!

[@ladyspookums]

I only watched this for William Hopper but this movie was amazing.

[@Formula-602]

What part did he play in this?...thx

[@georgemarischen8717]

Paul Drake

[@youtuber5669]

Good movie and making remakes was waste of time just like with psycho, carrie, the omen and who knows how many other movies

[@TheDuchessClub]

One of the best!

[@Mike-rp8ev]

A forgotten move 💙

[@mrschristian5908]

This movie is great.

[@goeienacht]

Damn good memories from this. My aunt and dad showed me this when I was 6 years old (1997). Wild to realize we all thought this movie was so violent and controversial and scary. Lol. I mean, it is but...given today's standards...

[@J3diKing]

I grew up with someone like this.

[@cathycummins8208]

Paul Drake. Perry Mason..Father.. Me and my family watched this so many times..and then our town theater had this showing ..Play..90s

[@anthonychoyce6496]

Excellent movie

[@DrBigt]

The ending was better in the original book, it was way toned down probably not to disturb audiences.

[@Saffronelle]

oh wow i LOVE this concept.

[@jessyleppert2]

Her eyes really scare me

[@ms.capricorn4540]

I will get this movie on DVD.

[@kensymorrow6141]

The boy's mother and her performance; I mean just amazing!!! The remake really should have put that part on.....but I get it, a Lifetime movie....it was better than I expected. The original will always be better though!! I watched this movie WITH my mother several times throughout my childhood and you know it's scary or creepy when my OWN mother now, won't let me watch it with my own daughter (btw she's 14 and is doing plays in high school) at my mother's home!!! Lol 😂🤣🤣 I'm like "woman, I'll give you a basket of hugs and kisses if you'll just chill!!! " 😂😂😂😂

[@MariahRB789]

My family watches this as a comedy😂😂😂

[@sbrecke1507]

OMG 😆

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

The dialogue is very intense it's very Broadway

[@juanfigueroa4989]

The same i was thinking..

[@janetlieb2507]

Years ago in the early 60s when information on genetics came put I brought up in a class that traits and talents are inherited. The teacher told me in front of the class I was wrong. Well.... I also believe environment is important

[@Natureguy-le8pl]

Talents aren’t, traits most likely.

[@janetlieb2507]

Same thing happened to me!

[@janetlieb2507]

@@Natureguy-le8pl yes also talents

[@coweatsman]

Nature and nurture work together. Empathy is activated in childhood out of what is already present but psychopaths are born without any such trait and can never be educated to be empathic. Talent too have a genetic basis. While almost any person can be taught to be a musician you can not educate someone to be a Mozart or Beethoven. That requires inborn tendency. Genius can be thwarted by environment but it can not be made by the environment.

[@terrydavis1917]

👏WOW, HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, LIFE DOESN'T ,BUT CORRECT IF I'M WRONG, IT DOES,

[@Danielle-i8x]

Looking forward to watching and crituing the movie

[@elizabethwalker8272]

My dad and I were just texting about this movie. As a younger person watching it, I never saw a more disturbing, depressing all around movie ever. No win win situations here until "Gawd" strikes her down w/a lightning bolt. Can't watch even decades later.

[@egglady]

The original ending of the book and play was better, where Rhoda survives and the mother dies.

[@mickkiesmith9110]

There ARE bad children and then, there IS Evil. I've babysat a plethora of badasschildren in my life. YES, "B A D"! And i mean, To The Bone!! But none of them could ever hold a candle to the character or personality of Rhoda Penmark. I feel like that, even tho' Patty McCormack as a young child, may not have understood "the depth" of the mind of Rhoda, i think that young Patty "SOMEHOW INSTINCTIVELY KNEW", her Rhoda character was a tad bit more than just, "an unruly child". Little McCormack's performance is like of a mature and seasoned veteran BETTER THAN most adults with these types of roles. I often wonder, like, "where" did she go, within herself, to produce such an astounding performance at such a young age? Other than just reading and remembering lines? It's mindboggling. I mean, her acting skills perplexes me every, single, time i watch her!! Bad is one thing, EVIL, well, that's just a whole different other thing......

[@denisedillinger1354]

This young actresses range was quite exquisite. I don’t think she got the flowers she deserved. patty McCormicks Rhoda is what Heath ledger was to the joker she played this character seamlessly

[@LoveLady-wn3eg]

I used to have a crush on the man who plays the little girl's father. He also played Perry Mason's partner.

[@JacionBryant]

I’m here from the movies call orphan

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

The book’s ending is way scarier. And much, much different.

[@cooperminion825]

So the play that inspired the movie was based on a book?

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Cooper Minion yup. Big best seller in the 1950s. Same name as play & movie. Highly recommended. I read it in the 7th grade before I knew there was a play or movie & it thoroughly scared me. The ending isn’t the only thing different from the book - the dad is virtually nonexistent. As good as the play and movie are, like most things, the book is better.

[@cooperminion825]

@@shimmeringfairydust3275 I really wish that the libraries near me carried all these books that inspired plays and movies

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Cooper Minion Same. I think you can request certain items through your library, but there are limitations, and it takes awhile. That’s true even of your big city libraries.

[@cooperminion825]

@@shimmeringfairydust3275 the libraries I go to don't accept requests. I once put in a request for The Hunchback of Notre Dame but they said that they were no longer accepting requests because of the lack of funding. I think that only big city libraries are accepting book requests

[@kevinbarton9052]

Joan Crawford is great playing Nancy Kelly's part if she stay with Warner Bros.

[@camdendavis838]

I thought she played ms deagle?

[@Saffronelle]

amazing actress!

[@angryangora]

Campy but fun....the overly theatrical acting actually makes sense with Rhoda because she is quite consciously impersonating a perfect little girl.

[@richardcollier1912]

Those pigtails are awesome. The soundtrack is a grotesquely overblown mockery of dramatic subtlety.

[@OscarWrightZenTANGO]

my mother used to say that I inspired this film, "you're no good Oscar I tell ya !" (she took me to a priest for an exorcism but it did not work and mom became a Jehovahs Witness....she loved ringing door bells to hand out the Watchtower which she would personally autograph)

[@waynestout8636]

The very end was the BEST ! 👍

[@rasheedahmontgomery912]

I said it before it happened. I just 1:48 watched it today. I never saw that ending. I ALWAYS turned it off when the mother gave the little girl the pills. But t today I watched till the end and I said I pray she gets......and didn't it happen.smdhcthu! Great movie and cast. I loved the sociological aspect of it. That little girl had everything a a child could want and still she had to have MORE....and the way that Monica woman went on an on praddling about and over that lil girl she didnt even realize that she was on Rhodas llist too. She started askn questions about those love birds 🤣🤣🤣

[@horstd.flemmer6333]

AN EXCELLENT MOVIE. A PITY WE CANT SEE IT ANYMORE.

[@wildnholiday]

I've watched this numerous times through the years, I just realized Rhoda is a Sagittarius. Monica gives Rhoda pendent that needed a turquoise birthstone stone to replace the garnet.

[@sheilahouston8242]

I am a foster parent and I have this little girl in my house! PRAY FOR ME! She's SO charming with others yet SO HATEFUL! JESUS STILL LOVES HER THOUGH!

[@DianaGrossman]

Look up the definition of SOCIOPATH....

[@b2kzangelalwayz]

This is nothing to be posting in KZbin comments.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

b2kzangelalwayz document her Behavior and get rid of a little demon seed and do it tonight no time like the present. Get some help!NOW Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@drivinsouth651]

Is there anyone or anything eviler than the God of Abraham? He killed his own son as a ritual blood sacrifice so that he could forgive us for the sin he originally condemned us all to in the 1st place. John 3:16

[@BOLLOCKS1968]

I hear you! Sometimes we have to sleep in shifts with one eye open! Stay safe.

[@successfulexcellent1646]

Just before Claud's name was mentioned over the radio, 'Monica' announced the drowned child's gender - "I WONDER HOW SHE KNEW THAT INFORMATION."🤔

[@nightowl4137]

Give it back to me Leroy ! 🤯👍🤗❤😈

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Night Owl give it to me right now! Did you hear me I want that now ! 🙋😹🔫🏃🏃🏃 run Leroy run. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@markvito746]

Im just clumsy ( deliberately goes for shoes with wire brush )

[@sophiawiseman3425]

I want to see this movie so bad. I'm only 11 .

[@richardcollier1912]

I am 67. I saw the movie when I was 14. I was never the same.

[@RD-fj5xs]

I wood like it to be a full episode

[@THERESASANDOVAL-kr2pe]

Best true story best actors

[@bonniegunther4434]

Can it be watched on u tube ?? All I saw were clips.

[@KingOFuh]

New York Times, Screen: 'The Bad Seed'; Members of Broadway Cast Are Starred, By Bosley Crowther, September 13, 1956-SINCE "The Bad Seed" has been transplanted from stage to screen with the principal players of its original cast intact and with the line of its story faithfully followed, except at the very end, you might think the motion picture version would have as much shattering impact as the play-or even more, considering the opportunity for the camera to embrace a wider scene. But, by some rather curious disillusion, which probably occurs as a consequence of looking too closely at its basically melodramatic characters, this film about the monstrous mortal mischief that is done by an 8-year-old girl tends to appear synthetic. And at time it is downright droll. This is not to say that the problem which is posed on the Astor Theatre's screen lacks a peculiar fascination. The prospect of a psychopathic child who kills two people during the time span of the picture and is revealed to have killed an old lady before it begins is extraordinarily different and morbidly intriguing, to say the least. What is going to happen to this youngster plagues the curiosity throughout the film. And certainly at the outset of proceedings, it is startling and chilling to be informed, by slow stages, that this seemingly perfect youngster has caused the drowning of a boy in her class at school. This horrifying information is got across with the effect of a slow-fused bomb. But from this point on the behavior of virtually everyone in the film becomes so fantastically abnormal that it grows ridiculous and grotesque. Little Patty McCormack, who plays the murderer, not only acts with incredible sang-froid but she also postures with such calculation that it is hard to see how anyone could mistake her show of innocence for a fraud. Furthermore, little Miss McCormack looks a very mature 8-year-old. Take those manicured pig-tails off her and she could stand beside Marilyn Monroe. At the same time, Nancy Kelly makes the mother of this child so saturnine and so foolishly fatalistic that her outbursts of frenzy toward the end, when little darling coolly compounds her murders, deprive her of the sympathy she should have. This reviewer had the inhuman feeling that this poor woman oddly got what she deserved. As for Eileen Heckart's performance as the grief-torn mother of the boy who is drowned, it is badly confused by broad explosions of comical drunkenness, and Evelyn Varden plays a nosy neighbor as if she were laboring to get laughs. Henry Jones as a dim-witted janitor and Joan Croydon as the principal of the girl's school play their parts so broadly or blandly that they are close to burlesque. Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play. He has done it in a style of presentation that is ostentatious and often insincere. Also, he and John Lee Mahin, the script writer, have changed the end so that it lacks the withering irony of the original. The attitude toward the whole thing is betrayed in a post-script, calling the actors on for bows. Miss Kelly spanks Miss McCormack for a gagged-up fadeout. Anything for a howl! THE BAD SEED, screen play by John Lee Mahin, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, from the novel by William March; directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy for Warner Brothers. At the Astor. Christine . . . . . Nancy Kelly; Rhoda . . . . . Patty McCormack; LeRoy . . . . . Henry Jones; Mrs. Daigle . . . . . Eileen Heckart; Monica . . . . . Evelyn Varden; Kenneth . . . . . William Hopper; Bravo . . . . . Paul Fix; Emory . . . . . Jesse White; Tasker . . . . . Gage Clarke; Miss Fern . . . . . Joan Croydon; Mr. Daigle . . . . . Frank Cady

[@hudson5112]

Whatever. I found the movie unforgettable and incredibly entertaining.

[@memphisjuju3361]

I think I might let my girls watch this

[@Jaz-gb5xq]

This movie scares me

[@maureenoneill2847]

Rufus wolf got those blue robins egg caption sampler with those st Felicia shoes

[@meganluminais3586]

Does this remind anybody of the movie problem child? 😂

[@markcarpenter9235]

It reminds me moe of "The Good Son" with Maccauley Culken and Elijah Wood.

[@acesaxena7805]

It wasn’t a scary film it was more of suspense

[@thechaz83]

@josephp9747 I completely agree. Certain 70’s and 80’s movies give off the same sentiments: 1980’s Pet Semetary, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Omen. In today’s movie landscape I feel Guillermo Del Toro is a wonderful example