A housewife suspects that her seemingly perfect eight year-old daughter is a heartless killer. She keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of the little girl's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
August 14, 2007
Excellent, chilling classic with McCormack as perfect demon child.
Film Threat
October 31, 2011
The 'secret' villain is the missing father - or we should say, the mother for trying to child-rear by herself ... The bad seed is dead - but single parents, be warned.
Variety
October 23, 2008
This melodrama about a child with an inbred talent for homicide is pretty unpleasant stuff on its own.
Scandalous, scary and popular, but extremely outdated , this well-acted melodrama was one of the first to deal with criminal conduct as biologically conditioned
