I just finished watching the Lifetime movie, The Bad Seed Returns, a sequel to the 2018 film, The Bad Seed. The beginning started out fairly well, showing the main character Emma, years later, now in high school, now living with her aunt. It shows her walking a dog, and then shows what happened three weeks prior. In this movie, she's on the dance team, in school acts fairly normal, but one thing I noticed about this film, which they kept the same with the first 2018 film, is how Emma practices what she's going to say to people before she goes to school, which she also did in the first film as well.
After a while the pacing felt a little slow, with not much happening till towards the end of the film, or close to the end of the film. Since Emma's Uncle was planning on sending her away to boarding school, one day, while her uncle was working on the car, Emma walked by, and tampered with the car, causing the car to collapse right on top on him, leading him to go to the hospital. Finally he comes home, when he was outside, Emma ignores him, while she's talking on the phone, the nurse finally comes back, and takes him back inside, Emma whistles a tune, which her uncle hears, causing him to remember what happened.
At school, one of her classmates, Kat remembers Emma from their old school when they were kids, she remembers Emma stealing her watch. But over time, Kat reveals to Emma that she suspects that Emma has something to do with all the misfortunes that happen around her. Emma then threatens Kat, letting her know, that if she keeps it up, she too will be next.
When Emma tries to win the competition to be dance caption, she loses to one of her teammates, who later on, she steals her anti-seizure medication, and sends her a messages which flashes, causing her to go into a full blown seizure attack. Later on, it shows that she passed away from the seizure.
At one point, Emma's teammate that won the competition, Emma tried to steal her dog and kill it, which later, Emma's aunt finds out Emma did, her aunt confronts Emma, when Emma lies, and says she just took the dog for a walk, and then the dog ran away. Which I honestly don't know how the aunt believed Emma so easily, but I guess it's for the plot, because to me, it didn't make that much sense .
Later on, towards the end of the movie, the aunt decides to visits a family friend, asking him about her brother, Emma's father, who Emma killed in the last movie. Which after finally putting the pieces together, Emma's aunt realizes that her brother was right about Emma, after she then rushes home, trying to call Emma, which Emma ignores her calls, while she talks to her classmate Kat, giving her hot chocolate, which she puts a combined mixture of a bunch of pills that she crushed, and then mixed into the hot chocolate. By the time Kat founds out that Emma poisoned her, it's too late for her to do anything about it, causing her to pass out on the floor. Emma's wakes up, hearing the baby crying, her crawls up to the second floor, to the baby's room, he looks into the crib, only to find out, that the crying was a recording from the phone that's laying in the crib. He turns around, seeing Emma, realizing that she's set the whole house on fire.
By this point, the aunt finally reaches the house, seeing what Emma has done, the aunt then tells Emma that her brother was right about her, then she rushes into the house, trying to save her husband, shortly after they both collapse on the floor, from inhaling all of the smoke. Emma bumped into her potential boyfriend outside, she tells the cops what happened, that her classmate tried to set the house on fire. The movie ends, with Emma going to a new family, with her baby nephew.
I personally liked the movie, but if I had to choose, I liked the first movie a lot more, I don't know why, but that's just me. Maybe I'm different, but for me, usually the first movie is usually a lot better than the sequels. Hopefully you enjoyed reading my review of the movie, maybe you will enjoy it more than I did.
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