While by no means at the same caliber of the original, this remake was passable. Some things that bothered me were some of the changes. For example, I'm not sure why they decided to change her name from Rhoda to Emma, and this irked me the same way it did when they changed it to Rachel in the 85 version . It's said that the mother died when Emma was a baby and they could've easily written in where the mother was fond of old-fashioned names and named her Rhoda. In the same way, not sure why they renamed Claude Milo as he could've easily been a different nationality as it was a prep school setting and it's not unreasonable to think that other ethnics could make it into the school. Maybe Lowe was afraid that people would accuse him of just using the names in an updated setting? Not sure.
I didn't really mind the gender swap of Chloe for Leroy or the dad for the mom as it still worked and I had always wondered how the dad would react in the 50s version if he had found out what his wife did. And seeing Robe Lowe's character David trying to take a more active role in trying to stop her from killing up until the cops were called and forced to kill him was pretty cool.
One thing I felt worked was showing more of Emma's sociopathic tendencies with her questioning why people get sad and her practicing the phrase "a basket of kisses" in front of the mirror as it gives the viewers a bit of a chill to see just how disconnected she is from the rest of society. And my favorite part was seeing Patty McCormack (the original Bad Seed) as the counselor Miss March. This told me a lot about the script as she had been offered a part in the 80s adaption and promptly turned it down after reading the script. so the fact that she agreed to do a role in THIS adaption tells me that she approved of the script and why it gets higher than a five.
I didn't really mind the gender swap of Chloe for Leroy or the dad for the mom as it still worked and I had always wondered how the dad would react in the 50s version if he had found out what his wife did. And seeing Robe Lowe's character David trying to take a more active role in trying to stop her from killing up until the cops were called and forced to kill him was pretty cool.
One thing I felt worked was showing more of Emma's sociopathic tendencies with her questioning why people get sad and her practicing the phrase "a basket of kisses" in front of the mirror as it gives the viewers a bit of a chill to see just how disconnected she is from the rest of society. And my favorite part was seeing Patty McCormack (the original Bad Seed) as the counselor Miss March. This told me a lot about the script as she had been offered a part in the 80s adaption and promptly turned it down after reading the script. so the fact that she agreed to do a role in THIS adaption tells me that she approved of the script and why it gets higher than a five.