At one point, talking to Variety about an adaptation deal that bore no fruit, Eli Roth, the director of “Hostel,” expressed a heartfelt hope “to bastardize and exploit” the story’s premise by adjusting the body count for inflation: “We’re going to create the next horror icon, à la Freddy, Jason, and Chucky,” he said. A high-toned 1985 TV remake failed to sate the appetite for further exploration of this supremely creepy grade-school sociopath, originally named Rhoda Penmark. “The Bad Seed,” William March’s 1954 novel about an eight-year-old serial killer, was a best-selling thriller that gave rise to a Broadway adaptation and, in 1956, to a drearily stagebound film.
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