After the opening murder, a moronic pedo janitor taunts Rhoda that he knows she killed that kid and that he’s gonna blackmail her.
There’s nothing worse than waiting for the characters in the story to catch up to what the reader already knows, especially when that’s all that’s going on! There’s zero tension, it’s just duller than dull. Most of the book is spent in the company of Rhoda’s insufferable mother, Christine, a prime candidate for the most stupid, gormless twit in all literature, who putters about wringing her hands wondering if her kid’s evil enough to kill. Except William March was as unimaginative a storyteller as he was incompetent a writer so does nothing with the concept beyond the initial murder. The “pscyho kid that kills” premise might’ve been fun had there been anything more to The Bad Seed than that. Sorry, just trying to wrangle my brain to review this garbage semi-coherently!Īwful, just awful. Could she…? DUuuuuuUUUUuuuuuhhhhh… waaaaaaaaaaaauUUGHghhhhhh! Muauarrrhghhhh! Wap wap waaaaaaap.
Find more podcasts you will love Frolic.Everyone who pisses off creepy 8 year old Rhoda dies – she couldn’t be murdering them. Movie is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.
Monica and crew talk about psychology and murderīook Vs. Starring: Nancy Kelly (Christine Penmark,) Patty McCormack (Rhoda Penmark,) Henry Jones (Leroy Jessup,) Eileen Heckert (Hortense Daigle,) Evelyn Varden (Monica Breedlove,) Willam Hopper (Kenneth Penmark,) and Paul Fix as Richard Bravo. The main differences between the novel & film. How psychology was used blatantly in movies in the 1950s. So, between the novel and the movie-which did we prefer? The ending changed dramatically from the original version to the film due to the Hays Code but it still delivers scares after all of these years. The film earned Kelly, Heckert, and McCormack Academy Award nominations for their performances and earned $4 million at the box office. (If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother!) Part of it was the psychology used to try and find out why Christine is so afraid of her daughter and why she feels responsible due to her own serial killer parent. The story of Rhoda Penmark, an eight-year-old child who just happens to possess murderous impulses, and her mother who may or may not be the “reason” she is a sociopath was a HUGE publishing hit and nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction. The first adaptation was a play in the same year the book was published and starred Nancy Kelly (who won the Tony in 1955 for Best Actress,) Patty McCormack, and Eileen Heckert who would all go on to play their same parts in the film version in 1956. Written by William March and published in 1954 shortly before his death by a heart attack at the age of 60. The Margos finish out the month of October with our final scary book & movie for the season- The Bad Seed.
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