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The Good Son (1994)

Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:11 pm
Posted by Tiger Voodoo
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Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:11 pm
Holy shite forgot how fricked this movie is


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.


Feels a little rushed at 90 minutes, which I’m not sure I realized back then.


Damn it was nice to see kids just running free without constant supervision back then. Even though it happened to allow for homicidal tendencies to be explored in this case unfortunately
Posted by LSULyle00690
Hoover, AL
Member since Sep 2004
7055 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:15 pm to
Yea I rewatched recently

Pretty cool flic
Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
64233 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:15 pm to
First rated R movie my mom ever let me rent.
Posted by LouisianaLonghorn
Austin, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
14176 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 11:04 pm to
quote:

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.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
65111 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:31 am to
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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
Posted by Will Munny
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
3077 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:00 am to
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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


Another example of this is when James Van Der Beek and Jessica Biel did The Rules of Attraction.
Posted by MardiGrasMambo
Metry
Member since Feb 2018
723 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 3:48 pm to
This movie freaked me out as a kid.

Couldn't believe Kevin McCallister turned into a homicidal maniac.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:00 pm to
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Couldn't believe Kevin McCallister turned into a homicidal maniac.
..really?
Posted by Peter167
Member since Mar 2020
6085 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:28 pm to
Mckulkin killed it

Elijah too

My mom took me and a friend to this at like 9 or 10 lol the friend was prob 12.

Already seen exorcist till the point her head spun her around n puked so this was easy

That actually kinda scarred me and my dad thought it was hilarious ran out the room like frick that
This post was edited on 6/30/20 at 5:34 pm
Posted by CBandits82
Lurker since May 2008
Member since May 2012
54096 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:32 pm to
Crazy arse movie. It’s not terrible though.

Posted by CBandits82
Lurker since May 2008
Member since May 2012
54096 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:34 pm to
They had another killer kid series of movies in early 90s called Mikey
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