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more 'evil little girl' films'?


I like that format...dont ask why, I just do.

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thank you!

Just because you're parinoid doesn't mean they're not after you -Kurt Cobain (Lithium)

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the bad seed(1956) has to be one of the best thrillers i've ever seen. same bad little girl kills people format. i highly recomend it.

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"The little girl who lives down the lane" is a good one.

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Yeah, a good number of films from the classical era got into the Lolita genre (in addition to Lolita itself of course, as someone else posted on below). My film class in college had TLGWLDTL in there as well as some of the others mentioned here. AFAIK many societies used to have 16 as the standard age of marriage (and in some countries they still do, e.g. India it's all over the map depending on the state your in), sometimes the husbands the same age and sometimes not, so the topic was probably inevitable as a filmmaker's fave when the laws changed.

Poison Ivy always comes to mind, but maybe a better example in recent years is The Babysitters (John Leguizamo) where a group of high school girls, starting out in baby-sitting duties for some spending money, wind up seducing the Dads in the households, then set up a prostitution ring to sleep with the Dads throughout the community. It's a classic Lolita-esque set-up in the "secrets of the nice suburban neihborhood" kind of way, with the seemingly sweet H.S. girls both pimping and prostituting, sometimes unsure what their getting into, but still getting waist-deep into the sordid business (not just cattiness but outright sabotaging and attacking each other).

Thing is, even a lot of the Babysitters was... creepy in the scenes let alone in the implications, the concluding scene was something you could guess but still a shock. No spoilers but as a hint: One of the girls in the ring got a nasty and clever revenge on the girl who was leading it, given that the two couldn't stand each other. But I couldn't sit thru all of Wicked, just too skin-crawling, which is maybe what the filmmakers were aiming at. (At least in Poison Ivy and in the Babysitters, the Lolitas are seducing other people's Dads rather than their own, ick!!) The manipulativeness of both sisters, plus you gotta feel sorry for the two outsiders (Lena and Lawson) who get such a raw deal from the mess within the house. Lawson truly cared for teh Julia Stiles character even as she blew him off, and Lena-- c'mon, so the Dad's been so messed up from it that he tosses out his hot Swedish wife? That's just wrong, even given all the other... things, that happened in the movie.

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I don't know that the girl from "Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" was evil. She was just more in a self-defense mode...

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The Children's Hour, with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacClain...about a little girl who makes up a lie that ruins both women's lives

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Ummm...Lolita! That would be THE bad little girl movie to watch.

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Daddy's Girl

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HARD CANDY - ellen page as an almost-too-precocious cunning killer

ATONEMENT- little girl ruins lives and struggles with atoning

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There is of course the american the Ring, where Samara is a very evil little girl. Kill Baby Kill is an older italian horror film with an evil little ghost girl. Then there is The Child. Regan in the Exorcist of course. Can't think of any others right now, but theres a ton.

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And just to reiterate, The Bad Seed, noted by an earlier poster, was actually the "original" evil little girl movie. Oscar nominations for Patty McCormack (as the bad little girl), Eileen Heckart, and Nancy Kelly.

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Did anyone mention 'The Crush' with Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone? She plays a real crazy!

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Hard Candy was intense... a must see for sure

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Ophan.

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There was a movie I don't rember the name of, but I saw it on TruTV years ago, it may have been made-for-TV. But there was a girl and her brother, and they were adopted. There was one point where the girl asks to sleep in the parents' bed and hides a long, sharp knife in the leg of her teddy bear. She also nearly kills her brother. They use tough therapy to make her stop. She had a psychlogical problem. It doesn't end like other evil girl films.

The Craft and The Faculty, although the girls were teenagers in those films.

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