Patty McCormack’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Patty McCormack has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Bad Seed.
Recurring themes

Intruders
2015
Drama · Thriller

Retreat
2011
Horror · Drama

The Baby's Room
2006
Drama · Horror

Orphan
2009
Horror · Thriller

The Possession
2012
Horror · Thriller

House at the End of the Street
2012
Horror · Thriller

Dismissed
2017
Horror · Thriller

What Keeps You Alive
2018
Horror · Thriller

A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
Dir. Rob Lowe · With Rob Lowe, Mckenna Grace, Sarah Dugdale
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.
Dir. Louise Archambault · With Mckenna Grace, Michelle Morgan, Benjamin Ayres

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson · With Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Dir. Sheldon Wilson · With Timothy V. Murphy, Lindsey Stoddart, Rocky Marquette