The Good Son (1993)

Good movie but grossly overrated

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

At aged 15, I read the Movie tie-in Novel by Ian McEwan and Todd Strasser before it was disappointingly banned shortly for the unrelated Jamie Bulgar case, it was the Best Thriller I ever read and always delighted to read through again and again, with the smiling Angelic Macaulay Culkin on the cover. Read the Book first if You can because it is very Smart. To my surprise, the Movie is available but United Kingdom always has strange standards. People who claim this movie is slow are probably born after this 1993 movie, because most Thrillers in the 1990's didn't have a cliché horror "surprises" element, they were steady paced. The Good Son had the atmosphere and pace of the movie Unfaithful starring Diane Lane, and Richard Gere; and Birth, Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall as cast, like the Golden Hollywood era of Thrillers with a modern twist. I am glad the Movie didn't have cliché shocks and heart attack music or panic pulse music score all the way through, because there is too much movies like that around nowadays, so it is good to have variety of production. The chills are in the performance of the Actors, that is how it should be isn't it?.Macaulay Culkin gave a calculating, cold and analytical approach, very manipulative and secretly menacing, I never thought of Kevin McCallister at all. Totally different and chilling, he is one scary Child. Elijah Wood, his cute petrified expressions is perfect for making you see his Troubled time of his life be dealing with the recent death of his Mother, and yet, the Horror of being like a observing witness, feeling helpless and figures how to stop his Budding Serial Killer Cousin.The self discovery of feeling an euphoria high on committing heinous acts by being able to "fly". Animal torture, Attempting murder, carry out dark and deadly fantasies, conscience doesn't bother Henry Evans (Culkin) all signs of a Future Serial Killer, probably the worst and elusive one yet.Two Young Good-looking Actors, did carry out the movie well, it is close to the book, but the novel is more detailed and has more scary moments, the movie is more toned down with psychological aspect of the Human nature.My advice, read the book if you can get it somewhere in this Country then watch the movie. You see how accurate the characters are to the actors.As for another Evil Child, Bad Seed by Patty McCormack as Rhonda Penmark. The movie is all talk and no action, she behaves like a stuck-Up girl that didn't get a Pony for her Birthday, the mother that finds out her Daughter's secret is annoying, gets shocked all the time, the ending was stupid, I mean completely utterly dumb, that pleases the folk of 1950's. It was original to portray a Child being Evil, but Bad Seed failed because it pleased the censors.So there you have it Henry Evans Wins.

This movie might be the best psychopathic kid movie ever made . and i think it's perfect for 1990s movie . in terms of performance i see that every actor/actress did their role as it should be and to choose Macaulay Culkin to be the psycho kid was the proper decision . screen-scripts were fantastic but the flaw was in Macaulay Culkin character is the lack of the sociopath's facial expressions . The significance and the message of this movie was slow to deliver, but it worth the wait . the background scores could've been better but sure they weren't bad .if you're into movies that focuses on sociopath's topics then i recommend you to watch this unique movie .

The Good son (1993)This not really horror movie, more of a very dark Thriller.The movie start off 12 year old boy Mark, who mother passes away and then in upcoming days his father as to take business.Then Mark had to live with aunt and uncle for bit, at first he seem to get along fine with his cousin Henry. As they do seem have a lot fun at first but then he when he see that Mark start to do some really bad and stuff, started to wonder , if is cousin is Evil as movie goes on it's dose more evil things.I found some scene really good in this movie, the pile up scene was really good a bit out dated a little, Ice skating scenes (I felt like I see that scene some were else before) I really liked the whole movie, I was not fan of the ending, I didn't not like how it ending at all and I hoping more for the aftermath.The acting was great from the youngsters8 out of 10

Meet Mark! Mark's problem? He just doesn't know how to have fun. Also, his mom just died but that is no excuse to not keep an open mind when it comes to murder and mayhem. Meet Henry, an ice-skating, dog-loving, cherub-faced bad boy with the most clueless parents a 4 foot psychopath could want. When goody-2-shoes Mark meets Satan spawn Henry, things quickly escalate out of control as Mark is introduced to a world where hide-and-seek is not a game and treehouses are built at irresponsible heights. Mark soon learns that when it comes to juvenile mischief, Henry's intentions are much more ambitious than TPing houses. The last straw for Mark is when Henry decides he wants to show off his scarecrow- making skills and introduces Mark to his life-sized man doll, Mr. Highway. Mark doesn't seem to appreciate Henry's creativity and when he sees what Henry has planned, he is even more mopey. You see, for a precocious young whippersnapper like Henry, Mr. Highway is the key to having a fender-bender blast, the kind of whip-lashing party that only Henry knows how to get started. Unfortunately, Mark doesn't appreciate having a front-row seat to the auto carnage and the tension escalates from there. Enjoy!