VividSimon Simply Perfect

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

jadavix "The Bad Seed" apparently has the distinction of being the first film in the "evil children" subgenre of horror movies. Unfortunately it is not one of the better ones.This material probably would have been more shocking in the '50s. Thing is, it should still be shocking now, but really shouldn't be. You can tell "The Bad Seed" was based on a play; the filmic medium isn't exploited here to create shocking moments; everything is kept off-screen.Further, the movie is really over-long, at two hours and ten minutes. You spend a lot of time waiting for inevitable moments you can see coming right from the beginning.

Art Vandelay This film is staged ham. Not surprisingly since most of the cast was apparently held over from its Broadway run. Only the mother Nancy Kelly seems to have caught on that she's acting in a film here. Everyone else is hamming it up for the cheap seats. That kid. Yikes. She delivers her lines like a brat in a community theatre production of Little Orphan Annie. This is conceivably the worst performance by a juvenile I have ever seen committed to film. Ever. The drunken mom of the dead boy? Holy ham bones, Shakespeare, she's playing to seats to cheap and so far away she might as well be in Yankee Stadium. Similarly, the teacher and the gardener fair very poorly. Hard to believe a veteran director of the big screen would let his actors run away from him like this. Maybe it would have worked on Philco's Monster Horror Chiller Theatre or whatever they called it on the 50s b00b tube.

Alan Weloth (RedNERVE) The Bad Seed (1956) by Mervyn LeRoy is a great 1950's mystery thriller. the acting and camera work is great. The flow of the movie from scene to scene was hardly noticeable.One thing i really disliked about this film however, was the fact that it is a 1950's film set in black and white. While this is a bit different because in the fifties directors were shooting mostly in color, it really bothered me and really drained out all interest I had for the film. I do think that the black and white adds to the drama of the film, I just personally disliked it.Other than the black and white color theme, this film was overall pretty good and would recommend it to anyone who likes more modern black and whites.

Adam A great film about the psychopathic Rhoda. Although some acting leaves something to be desired, the film still holds up well. It is surprising how suspenseful some scenes are 60 years later. I would think that it would not hold up well to a contemporary audience, and although some aspects don't, the film as a whole really does. Perhaps one of the more memorable scenes is when Monica and Christine both incoherently talk to themselves after seeing a man burned alive. The overlapping sound was just unnerving. The ending of this film shows evidence of the production code of the time. The clear good coming out better than evil felt bland. Although I still enjoyed the film, I would love to have seen the unhampered result.