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re: The Good Son (1994)
Posted on 6/29/20 at 11:04 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Posted on 6/29/20 at 11:04 pm to Tiger Voodoo
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Caught it on HBO tonight and it was pretty damn edgy for its time. Culkin and Wood are really good and the coastal NE setting is perfect at creating this creepy since of dread as you start to see what’s beneath the surface.
I thought it was meh. It's basically a rip off of The Bad Seed. I never believed Culkin as a homicidal sociopath. I might've liked it more if there was some semblance of a back story on Henry and why he was so evil. At least The Bad Seed flirts with the idea that evil can be inherited genetically.
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Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:31 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I never believed Culkin as a homicidal sociopath.
I don't know what it was about child actors born in the 70s and 80s, but many of them felt like they needed to take a role like this to shake off their "good boy/girl" image and prove they had actual acting chops. You saw it with Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy, Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son, Anne Hathaway in Havoc, Amanda Seyfried in Chloe, and even 90s babies like Emma Roberts in Scream 4/American Horror Story. I suppose you can include Lindsay Lohan in The Canyons on this list but her career was already dead by that point.
This post was edited on 6/30/20 at 8:35 am
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