The Bad Seed - BLU-RAY [1956]

The Bad Seed [Blu-ray]

Legendary filmmaker Ovidio G. Assonitis, whose Tentacles and Piranha II sought to cash in on the killer fish craze spawned by Jaws, first hit pay dirt in 1974 with Beyond the Door - a gloriously bonkers riff on The Exorcist featuring Emmy Award-winning actress Juliet Mills and distinguished British actor Richard Johnson. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco, Beyond the Door stars Mills as Jessica Barrett, a young mother who starts to develop strange behaviors whilst pregnant with her third child. Before you can say Inchsplit pea soup,Inch Jessica is displaying signs of full-blown demonic possession - complete with projectile vomiting and fully-rotating head! Could it be that she's carrying the child of the Antichrist himself? Described as Inchdisgusting,Inch Inchscary trashInch and Inchmaddeningly inappropriateInch by film critic Roger Ebert and subject to a lawsuit by Warner Bros. (who claimed copyright infringement against a certain William Friedkin film), the devilish denizens at Arrow Video have summoned up this wickedly entertaining popcorn spiller in an extras-packed edition fit for Satan himself!

Left to care for her infant niece by the child's drug-addicted mother, a psychiatric nurse (Kim Basinger) raises the withdrawn child as her own. But when the girl turns six and begins to manifest mysterious powers, she becomes the target of a self-help guru (Rufus Sewell), leader of a Satanic cult who believes the child is the Inchchosen oneInch in a coming battle between the forces of good and evil. Jimmy Smits, Ian Holm and Christina Ricci also star. 107 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English.