The Bad Seed (2018) Reviews

• Well, it started out good.

  tomfsloan2018-09-11

  It had a good start. But then it turned into a lousy lifetime movie. Watch the 1956 original instead! It had so much more depth and feeling. This one started out with some depth but got shallower and shallower. Soon enough it was like you are watching a puddle. I couldn't wait for it to end. It was really an unpleasant movie to watch. The entire time, I mentally compared it to the original and wished I was watching that one instead. Emma and the acting wasn't too bad. But the dramatic scenes of Chloe in the garage just didn't match the horror of Henry Jones. The distraught mother in 1956 held a lot more emotion. The best part was when Patty McCormack said her couple of gem lines. The ending was a little different but nothing to wow you. If given a choice watch the original.

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• More like "The Snot-Nosed Brat"...

  hsimpleton2018-09-16

  I just finished watching this 2018 remake of the 1956 classic, and I am so disappointed. Why mess with/up perfection with nonsense? Right from the beginning you can see that Emma/Rhoda is in control of her weak-minded widowed father. Hr caters to her every whim, and turns a blind eye to her blatant faults. When she starts killing (beginning with the cat, then moving on to her classmate, the headmistress, then her nanny) I was expecting the Dad to get a clue? Like IMMEDIATELY. Especially when he is TOLD by the headmistress that his precious Emma was with the dead boy right before he died? And what about when he finds out that she has that dead kid's medal after all? After she told him and the kid's parent's that she was NOT with him? And her Dad saw that the hornet's nest was missing after being told that the headmistress DIED FROM ONE IN HER CAR??????? Really? Then he thinks he can just go lay down and catch a couple of winks , LOLOLOL!!!!! JUST. DUMB. Oh, and don't get me started on the "Nanny", okayyyy??? I mean, how she gon' let that 9-yr old psycho get the drop on her like that when she KNEW WHO/WHAT she was dealing with, as well as what she (Emma) was capable of....Unbelievable....And of course she (Emma) gets away with being a Murderous Mega Brat, instead of being exposed by hidden camera footage (that the Dad could have had installed w/o her knowing) or something....JS Welp, all in all, it was a dud remake, and all of the adults in the film were a joke, so BOO. HISS. throw them ALL away! Don't waste your time, watch the original and see what REALLY should happen to future serial killers like her.

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• How and why.....Just stay away....

  chrisathanassiadis2019-01-16

  I just created an account to write a few things.I have not seen any other original or remake so my review would be for this. 1.How on earth did a 9 year old girl grab a ladder,wear a special suit for wasps (been there and done that) actually pull apart the wasps nest without damaging it (it's like paper) find the teacher's car,manage to somehow get in it and place the nest in there......?SERIOUSLY? I mean how is it it even possible?Please someone explain this to me. 2.My partner and I knew she had changed the cups (at the end)...How did he not know? 3.She found the gun,fired it,missed(!!!!!!!!) and the father did not go deaf? I mean even for a few seconds? 4.How would a psychiatrist,even say that she looks 100% from the first visit.With thousands of cases (she said it) she would have come upon psychotic children acting normal? She dismisses everything bad about the girl... 5.Why didn't the guy who shot him,shoot him in the leg or hit him on the head to knock him out? There are a lot more that I cannot recall but overall just bad directing...

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• Has the spirit of the first one.

  tracyjeangardnerboulder2018-09-10

  I enjoyed the bad seed, I like the ending in the first one better. The little girl acting was great.

• Terrible unrealistic

  metallisktispe5952018-09-23

  Someone take Rob Lowe's directing license that ending was terrible