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| Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark |
"Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!" - Rhoda Penmark, The Bad Seed
Tis the season, thus today we are going to Hump Day & Chill to one of the cinemas most notorious sociopaths little Rhoda Penmark straight outta the film The Bad Seed.
For the uninitiated here's how Bad of a girl Rhoda is:
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark (William Hopper) and his wife, Christine (Nancy Kelly), dote on their pig-tailed daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack) -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden). But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. 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.
"Yes" I have seen this movie and while some of it is hammy in execution and undercuts the darker themes of the story a little. I have never seen a child performance as chilling as Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark.
She makes seeing The Bad Seed a Hump Day & Chill must!
The Bad Seed on IMDb -
