

This 70s TV movie asks: what if your new stepson was a tiny sociopath?
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
Acting
Mark Gruner's dead-eyed stare that launched 1000 nightmares
Direction
Wendkos turns sunny suburbia into a pressure cooker

Director
Paul Wendkos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Gruner quit acting shortly after; rumor says he couldn't shake being 'that creepy kid.'
This aired during the 'killer kid' boom post-Bad Seed, but its TV-movie format made suburban evil feel dangerously ordinary.
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