The Bad Seed

1956 · Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 117 min · drama film, film noir, horror film

★ 7.1/10 · 276 ratings on TMDB

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.