The Lifetime remake of The Bad Seed is on right now

Good god this is an embarrassment to everyone involved. And Lowe runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Patty McCormick’s line about seeing herself in the little girl was meta cute though.

I didn't even recognize Patty McCormack as the therapist. She looks good.

How did they update the penmanship prize?

R2 are you kidding? Patty looked 102 years old. Mediocre film but what do you expect from Lifetime. None of the good writing and style of the first one. The little girl did have some funny lines though.

R3 they still kept that story intact with the little bitch actually confronting the boy to get it from him.

I though5 the first 45 minutes were promising, but then .....pffffttt.

Lowe directed himself to be so laid back he was somnambulant. The little girl (one of the Faiths on Y&R) was good, but Lifetime played it too safe and didn’t show enough violence/blood/evil. Why do a remake unless you’re going to push the envelope?

The last half hour (sorry, I hate to walk away once I’ve started watching) was just bad. The father was written as close to retarded when he left the drinks (one laced with drugs) with the little demon while he retrieved cream from the fridge.

I was looking for a guilty pleasure campfest. Didn’t get it.

Did they go back to the ending of the original novel, which wasn't used in the stage play or the first film? The mother tries to poison the two of them. She dies but Rhoda lives.

No one could ever equal Nancy Kelly's hysterics.

R7, the mother is dead in this one. Rob Lowe plays the girl’s father.

His plan is to poison her, but as I said in R6, dumb Dad leaves the room and the drinks with the bad seed. She somehow is aware that one drink is poisoned, so she switches it and he drinks it, passing out.

When he awakes, she has a gun to his head, but misses from about a foot away.

A struggle ensues, and Dad gets the gun while bad seed runs off, calling the cops and 911. She hides in a bathroom. Dad finds her and cocks the gun to kill her — because she’s bad and he doesn’t want her to go through tons of shit — but the police is now behind him, telling him they’ll kill him.

Instead of just firing the damn gun at the little bitch, he hesitates, and the cop blows a hole in him. Dead.

Demon seed pretend cries to her aunt, who didn’t believe the stories that the little girl was all fucked up. The movie ends with the little cretin smiling as her aunt holds her and consoles her.

Thanks, r9.

OF COURSE the mother was dead in this version. No one could equal Nancy Kelly's histrionics!

[quote]No one could equal Nancy Kelly's histrionics!

I'd ordinarily say that you're an adroit liar and your statement is clearly specious, but in this case, you are correct.

Now, before I wheel the drinks cart in, does anyone have any requests.

I never expected it to be as good as the 1956 version, but is it at least good as the made-for-TV remake from 1985?

I'm Claude Daigle. I just won a penmanship award! I'll treasure this the rest of my life

Lost me 15 minutes in. Switched to this from the depressing Packers vs Bears game. Should have stayed true to the Packs. I think I actually hate Lowe now just on principle.

A struggle ensues...the kid looks like she weighs sixty-five pounds...soaking wet. And no killer pig-tails! It's just another Lifetime movie. Definitely not a remake of The Bad Seed. False advertising. Would anyone here have watched it if it hadn't been touted as a remake of the classic original?

[quote]Patty McCormack has a cameo as a therapist.

Do Jeffrey Tambor, Norman Fell and Audra Lindley also have cameos?

R9 here. I apologize for saying WAY too much about a lousy movie.

I actually appreciated Rob Lowe’s direction in the first 15 minutes of the movie. I saw interesting camera shots, interesting editing, good production design, and a good sense of atmosphere.

Then all that seemed to fade/disappear, as if Lowe worked hard on the open of the movie and then ran out of time or energy or talent. By the end, it all felt a little sloppy.

Part of the reason I stayed with it was because I was curious as to how it was falling apart.

Is this the one with Blair Brown or was that an earlier bad remake? The original has nothing to worry about.

So this is a new remake, 2018? Couldn't suck as hard as the toothless Blair Brown shitshow.

It’s a brand new version.

I usually loathe remakes, and figured I'd watch 5 minutes, see the Patty cameo and move on. I watched the whole thing. The fucking nanny was terrible. I missed "LEROY, GIVE ME THOSE SHOES!". Rob Lowe is Plasticine.

The little girl was terrific. She was a different kind of Psycho, and I believed her. The ending was too fast and sequel ready, and I loathe how modern audiences must have everything underlined for them, but Patty was good. I didn't even realize it was she until the "reminds me of me" line. Good casting there.