Top Bad Seed Movies
 

These are my favorite movies about evil children:
The Bad Seed (1956) (of course) -The 1985 remake is worth seeing too.
The Omen (1976)
The Other (1972)
Joshua (2007)
The Godsend (1980) - not the 2004 Robert DeNiro film

I'd like to see the Bad Seed remake - loved the original..

How about:

Devil times five (1974)

The Child (1977)

The Good Son (1993) - wasn't
that bad.

Do the 2 Children of the Damned films count?

Children of the Corn (1984) plus the sequals and remake..

The kids in the excellent FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM.

The Killer Babies for (the already mentioned:) FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM, Sewer baby, the ITS ALIVE movies.

I guess Michael Myers is the ultimate bad seed..

Theres others where the kids are normal but turned evil which is a bit different:

Who would kill a child?

The CHildren (the recent Brit film)

The Brood! Creepy little scary beaknosed kids!!

Village Of The Damned and The Brood should've been mentioned. Sorry about that. I suppose Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween could qualify as there's more detail of Michael Myers as a child.
I wish someone would make a version of Children Of The Corn that was more faithful to the short story. It's probably my favorite short story by Stephen King.http://kotisivukone.fi/files/sholmes...fthedamned.gifhttp://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...corn-isaac.jpg

How do the films differ?

I only saw the original Children of the Corn which ended differently to the book. I forgot there was a remake recently. Did it end the same way as the book?

Bad Seed Cliches
 

Having watched Orphan recently, I started thinking about certain cliches in this type of movie. Three I thought of:
The parent who is the first to suspect Bad Seed of wrongdoing will have some history of instability to be sure everyone else thinks they're imagining things.
The property of Bad Seed's family will have some extremely dangerous feature; a well, a deep lake, a treehouse, a barn with a loft etc.
A helpless child (usually a sibling of Bad Seed) will inexplicably be left alone with Bad Seed well after suspicions have fallen on them.

There's usually a pet with a short life expectancy too. Does anybody remember Twisted with a young Christian Slater?

I agree with Ferox: The Children was fantastic. HIGHLY recommended.

Loved the original Bad Seed too.

And I also agree, this was surprisingly good. Very creepy.

I love The Bad Seed as well, never watched the remake. It was a television movie wasn't it?

LOVE The Other.