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[[File:503533The-Good-Son-Posters_smaller_9549.jpg|frame|[[Creepy Child|This]] [[Complete Monster|role]] is [[Playing Against Type|a ''little'' different]] from [[Home Alone|Kevin McCallister]].]]
'''''[[The Good Son]]''''' is a 1993 film starring [[
It is about Henry Evans, played by Macaulay, a psychopathic kid terrorizing his cousin, Mark (Elijah Wood). Mark tries incredibly hard to convince his family that Henry is psychotic and evil, [[Obviously Evil|a fact that should be noticed even if you're three miles away]]; when that doesn't work, Mark tries to stop Henry from getting worse, but fails to do so...
The movie was critically hated, being called a [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|thoroughly creepy, unpleasant experience]]. The movie was a modest box office hit. It had a relatively small production budget and earned about 60,5 million dollars in the worldwide market. About 45 million of these dollars came from the United States market, where it was the 31st most successful film of its year. Elijah Wood won a Saturn Award for his performance in this film.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Really, all the signs are there but not one adult sees how off Henry is. When Mark points this out, ''he'' is labeled the crazy one.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Henry.
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* [[Critical Psychoanalysis Failure]]: Henry actually manipulates Mark's ''psychologist'', who should obviously be capable of telling how a psychologically disturbed child with no empathy acts.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The reason Henry drowned his brother in the bath was because he had Henry's rubber duck.
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Again, Henry.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Brutally averted. Even this trope was averted with Henry Evans. Maybe this is a possible reason
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Much of the reason why Henry seeks to eliminate Mark, is because he doesn't understand why Mark isn't just like him. Both have experienced death in their own way. His talk with Mark on the matter says it all.
{{quote|'''Mark:''' Do you know what you did?
'''Henry:''' Hey, come on. We did it together.
'''Mark:''' You could have killed people.
'''Henry:''' With your help.
'''Mark:''' Hey, I didn't know you were going to do that.
'''Henry:''' I feel sorry for you, Mark. You just don't know how to have fun.
'''Mark:''' What?
'''Henry:''' It's because you're scared all the time. I know. I used to be scared too. But that was before I found out.
'''Mark:''' Found out what?
'''Henry:''' That once you realize that you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you. Nobody. Mark... don't be afraid to fly.
'''Mark:''' You're sick.
'''Henry:''' Hey, I promised you something amazing, something you'll never forget. Where's the gratitude?}}
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Henry.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: A pretty depressing example occurs at the beginning, when Mark is sitting by the bed of his terminally ill mother, repeating desperately that she won't die because he won't let her. Then it cuts to her funeral.
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* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Make one guess.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: '''Henry'''
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: {{spoiler|Susan ultimately has to choose between which child will live when she can only rescue one (because, you know, [[Sarcasm Mode|it's such a hard choice to make]])... and she lets Henry die.}}
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Macaulay Culkin. Big time.
** The film was probably made for that entire purpose. (Some people wanted to see evil Macaulay Culkin).
** Played with in the Latin American name for the film
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Yes, The ''[[Home Alone]]'' kid really did say "Don't fuck with me."
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Henry tries this on Susan in the end. It epically backfires.}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: When they meet the first time Henry gives Mark [[Halloween (
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: ''Many'' critics decried the casting of Macaulay Culkin in the role thanks to his kid-friendly ''[[Home Alone]]'' series, many children hero-worshiped him and marketing research indicated extreme interest by children in the film [[Contractual Purity|entirely because of Culkin's presence]]. If the number of anecdotes by people mentioning this film gave them nightmares indicates, they probably saw it anyway in spite of the R-rating.
** People ''don't like it'' when you weaponize the break from [[Contractual Purity]].
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