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The Bad Seed (1985)

The Bad Seed poster
Directed by
Paul Wendkos
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A widow starts to suspect that her sweet nine-year-old daughter is responsible for a series of strange accidents and deaths. She must face the terrifying possibility that her child is a born killer.

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What happens

The Bad Seed is a 1985 American made-for-television horror film directed by Paul Wendkos for ABC Television. In the film, freak fatal accidents force a widow to realize her precocious 9-year-old daughter was born to kill. Based on the William March novel The Bad Seed (1954), the film is a remake of the original film The Bad Seed (1956) as directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The scenes at fictional Fern Academy were shot at the AFI Conservatory in Los Feliz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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