My favorite horror movies have always been ones about witches. I love a smart film and I love a feminist film. And sometimes it happens that films about witches, when they are made well, are both smart and feminist. So between its ethos and its execution, I was basically hooked from the first dreamy, dreamlike frames.
The Bad Seed (1956)
Rhoda is a sociopath or psychopath, depending on who you ask, and she's, as her mother says, an adroit liar and a kind of inveterate con artist. She's preternaturally mature; her teacher and her classmates are the only ones who can sniff her out, but nothing stands in the way of Rhoda getting what she wants.