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If you think creepy kids in horror movies started with The Omen or The Ring , you need to go back further. Way further. To 1956. To black-and-white. To a little girl in pigtails named Rhoda Penmark.

Vietnamese viewers often debate: Is evil born, or taught? The film’s answer—through its clunky but chilling epilogue—is: Born. And that fatalism resonates deeply with certain Buddhist-influenced perspectives on karma and inherent nature (bản chất). Absolutely. The Bad Seed is a stagey, talky, deeply unsettling film. It’s not a jump-scare fest. It’s a quiet study of how a mother learns to hate her own child.