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Mar 27 11 11:50 PM
Burgomaster
telegonus wrote: Nancy Kelly's famously overwrought performance as the mother of the daughter from hell strikes me as right for this particular film. She comes off at times as crazier than her cute little daughter. Patty McCormack is beyond praise as little Rhoda. I agree with everyone who says that the scenes between McCormack and dim-witted Henry Jones are the best in the film. I wouldn't quite class The Bad Seed as a horror film. It could have been had it been made differently. As it is, it's too prosaic in presentation to qualify. The character of Rhoda is a monster, for sure, yet there's so much discussion of the hows and whys she's the way she is that the movie becomes a kind of "think piece" in its second half.
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