tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post7147679577222556314..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: This Week in Geek (7-13/01/19)Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-40680111115270473072019-01-13T17:37:25.766-04:002019-01-13T17:37:25.766-04:00Now that you've seen The Bad Seed, you might w...Now that you've seen <i>The Bad Seed</i>, you might want to track down Mommy, a low-budget thriller written and directed by Max Allan Collins (of Ms. Tree fame) and starring Patty McCormick as a murderous mom. He envisioned it as an unofficial sequel to <i>Bad Seed</i>, imagining what might have transpired if Rhoda had grown up to have a child of her own. It's pretty entertaining as I recall it.Johnhttp://twitter.com/jheaton416/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-63638209485032509942019-01-13T09:59:32.645-04:002019-01-13T09:59:32.645-04:00Pretty niche, but I'd play it.Pretty niche, but I'd play it.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-70986730042372589362019-01-13T07:20:40.979-04:002019-01-13T07:20:40.979-04:00Easy way "The Bad Seed" could have ended...Easy way "The Bad Seed" could have ended, under a different film code: Rhoda goes down to the pond to find that medal, falls in, and her coat gets caught on a nail. There are shots of her struggling in the water, with a close-up of her face and her braids bobbing around, and finally there's a surface shot of the pond with no ripples or signs of anyone moving underwater. Fade to the morning, same shot, but with a police car and an ambulance and very somber-looking Penmarks.<br /><br />There was a remake of "The Bad Seed" in the 1980s, and if memory serves, they didn't do the cop-out ending. Leroy is played by David Carradine, and (spoilers) Rhoda makes it look like he auto-erotically asphyxiated himself to death. Wait, that wasn't in the movie.<br /><br />I once tweeted Alison Argrim (Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie") and told her I was pretty sure Nellie could kick Rhoda Penmark's ass. She LOL'd and told me that she knows Patty McCormack in real life. But ever since then, I've wanted a "Mortal Kombat" game with spoiled monster blonde girls. Rhoda's big move would be taking off her shoe and hitting you in the head with it. Nellie would have freeze vision. And so on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com