I watched the Lifetime 2018 movie, "The Bad Seed", and to my surprise it was actually a lot better than I thought it would be, I already new it was based on the play, and the original 1956 movie of the same name. I know that the original was a classic, but I figured I'd give this version a shot, and it was better then I thought. The actress Mckenna Grace, who played the main villain Emma, did a fantastic job. Watching her from the very first scene, she had me hooked, the movie was paced very well, with enough death scene's to get the point across, but not so much, that it was overdone. What I found very fancinating, was Mckenna Grace's ability to switch emotions so fast, and still make it look very convincing to the other characters in the movie.
Another thing I really liked about the movie, was the baby sitter, how she caught on very fast about Emma, and that she wasn't as innocent as she first seemed. Which in my opinion was a nice change, isn't of having the clueless baby sitter that has no clue of what's going on, she new almost from the very beginning. The father took a little while to figure out what was going on, and to piece everything together, but eventually he finally did, when he finally asked his daughter Emma how the first victim died, and after he saw her reaction to him questioning her, that's when he slowly started to become suspicious of his daughter.
Of course, since the baby sitter new what was up, it was only a matter of time before Emma would find a way to get rid of her, the baby sitter's death scene, I honestly didn't expect, it was surprising in my opinion, for a while, I thought the baby sitter was going to live, I assumed that she would report Emma to the cops. But of course she had to be killed off.
One death scene that happened a little too fast, was her teacher, like I understand that Emma put a wasp nest in the teacher's car, causing her to have a car crash, but to me, it felt like it happened out of nowhere. Or how she only killed one teacher from her school, and not anyone else who worked there, that might have suspected that something was wrong with her.
The movie, finally come to a close, with the father, taking his daughter Emma to the family lake house, where he does more research about Emma and her behavior's, which Emma see's him doing, causing her to try to kill her dad, by turning all the gas on inside the lake house. He woke up, realizing what happened, turning off all the gas inside the house, he then goes to Emma, and ask's why she tried to kill him, telling her that he's all she has, and then she coldly replies, " no, if something happened to you, I'd live with aunt Angela", leaving him speechless. He then takes her back inside, trying to put crushed up Xanax pills into her hot chocolate, but she switched there drink's when he wasn't looking. Emma tried to finally kill her dad, by shooting him in the head while he was sleeping, but she missed, causing him to wake up, he then knocks the gun out of her hands, while he goes for the gun, Emma grabs the phone, calling 911, making it sound like her dad is trying to kill her.
The police get there, right as the dad is about to kill Emma, the dad tries telling the police, that Emma is very dangerous, but the police don't believe him, and shoot him in the chest. Emma's aunt shows up, and the movie closes, showing that the aunt take Emma into her care, and that Emma got away with everything that she did.
It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed watching the movie, for a Lifetime movie, it was honestly one of the best movies, I have seen of there's in a very long time. I would recommend this movie, for anyone that loves horror or suspense, especially if you love the original 1956 movie of The Bad Seed, then you will surely enjoy this movie.
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