The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart, about an eight-year-old girl whose mother begins to suspect that she might be a psychopathic killer.
Plot
Kenneth and Christine Penmark dote on their eight-year-old daughter, Rhoda, pristine and proper in her pinafore dress and blonde pigtails. Kenneth leaves on military duty. Neighbor and landlady, Monica Breedlove, is fond of Rhoda, who tells her about a penmanship competition that she lost to her schoolmate Claude Daigle. Rhoda then leaves for her school picnic at a lake.
More details
| author | John Lee Mahin Maxwell Anderson |
|---|---|
| director | Mervyn LeRoy |
| editor | Warren Low |
| genre | horror thriller |
| keywords | adopt antisocial personality disorder burn confuse dip net drown excelsior hand net haunt horrify kill lightning lovebird murder penmanship pigtail pinafore dress sleeping pill sleeping pills sociopathy suspect tap shoe tease traumatize wichita kansas wood wool |
| musicBy | Alex North |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| producer | Mervyn LeRoy |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | film noir psychological horror psychological thriller serial killer |