My guitar teacher Sam has been telling me I need to see this movie for the past year. Apparently he and his siblings used to watch it every time it came on TV when they were growing up and tease each other about who was the bad seed. Apparently he thought it would be relevant to my life...It was a fun movie, complete with ominous music, skipping, and pigtails. Rhoda is perfect. Neat, pretty, smart, charming... and sociopathic. Soon after meeting Rhoda, we learn that although she believes she deserved to win the penmanship medal at school, the medal has been awarded to Claude Daigle instead. And she is VERY angry. No matter how much curtseying and skipping and kissing of cheeks she does, we know she is very angry. Rhoda goes off to a school picnic, and Claude Daigle drowns off of a pier. Hmmm...
It doesn't take Rhoda's mom very long to figure out what Rhoda has done. Rhoda is creepy, and someone has actually died around her before. (Not to mention the mom's repressed memories of having been adopted out of a sociopathic family.) But what will Rhoda's mom do with her bad seed?
Three stars, and I could definitely imagine seeing this again!
2 comments:
The Bad Seed really gave me the heeby jeebies the first time I saw it.
It's a great cult classic and the whole "I have the prettiest Mother" is right up there with Mommie Dearest "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!"
Oh, I can't tell you how much I love this movie. Poor Mr Leroy. The way she lit him on fire while he slept in the cellar is horrible.
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