Tag: The Bad Seed
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The Most Horrifying Movie About Motherhood Isn’t ‘Hereditary,’ It’s This
The horror of motherhood has been a prominent theme in horror films for years, dating back to movies like The Bad Seed, and Rosemary’s Baby in the ’50s and ’60s, and kept up by films like The Babadook, Titane, and most notably, Hereditary. Yet, the film to really capture that feeling of overwhelming anxiety and…
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1960’s The Village of the Damned and Making Children Into Monsters
Children are a reliable staple of horror. You don’t want to see a child get hurt or killed, fictional or not, and the death of one can become the most stomach churning part of a movie, but it becomes truly twisted when the child themselves is the one doing the hurting or killing. Some of…
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McKenna Grace Announced The Release Of The Bad Seed Returns Has Been Delayed Following Uvalde Shooting
Variety is reporting that Lifetime is pushing the release of “The Bad Seed Returns” in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, TX that has claimed the lives of 19 children and 2 adults. “The Bad Seed” originated as a novel that was then adapted as a stage play and subsequently a film in 1956 starring…
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My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Continuing our series of writers picking out lesser-known gems available to stream is an ode to a murderous Jodie Foster thrillerCinema’s murderous children are legion, but Jodie Foster’s Rynn Jacobs in 1976’s The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane often falls among the forgotten. It was understandable given the especially prolific year she was…
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McKenna Grace on ‘The Bad Seed’ Series and Playing Young Captain Marvel
From executive producer/director/star Rob Lowe, the Lifetime Television reimagining of the iconic 1956 psychological horror film The Bad Seed follows a single father (Lowe) who seems to have everything under control, until a tragedy hits too close to home and forces him to question everything he thought he knew about his sweet, beloved and highly…