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The Bad Seed Returns

The Bad Seed Returns2022

Directed by Louise Archambault

5.8
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IMDb 5.5TMDB 7.0
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Year
2022
Runtime
88 min
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🏆 1 nomination total

The premise

Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.

Horror Vault's take

Emma, the chillingly composed teenage killer from the first film, is back — older, enrolled in high school, and doing her best impression of a normal girl. Life with her aunt's family seems stable until a suspicious new classmate threatens to unravel everything Emma has worked to conceal. With her carefully constructed facade under threat from multiple angles, Emma must decide how far she's willing to go to protect herself. This slick TV-movie sequel keeps the focus squarely on its unnerving young protagonist and the cat-and-mouse tension she generates.

Content: Violence, Depictions Of Teen-On-Teen Aggression, Mild Peril

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