The Good Son (1993)



Superstar Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood discover that evil has many faces this pulse-pounding, edge of-your-seat psykological thriller from director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy, True Believer, The Step father). Also featured in this gripping story of childhood gone murderously wrong are Jacqueline Brookes (Sea of Love, Naked Gun 2 1/2), Wendy Crewson (The Doctor, Folks!) and David Morse (The Indian Runner, Inside Moves). For all his family knows , young Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin) is a model child: bright, considerate, spirited. But when his cousin Mark (Elijah Wood) loses his mother and comes to stay with Henry and his family on the rugged coast of Maine, Henry soon reveals a very different side. Mark's uneasy feeling about his angelic cousin begin when their boyish games take on a morbid, unsettling edge. After a series of shockingly violent "games" orchestrated by Henry leads up to the near death of Henry's little sister (Quinn Culkin), Mark is forced to confront Henry's parents with the facts about their son's behavior. When the adults refuse to believe his story, and in fact blame him for Henry's misdeeds, Mark is plunged into a terrifying , life-or death race to prevent Henry's calculating evil from exploding into unspeakable, cold blooded murder.