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I'm trying to find information on a movie that I remember watching as a kid. If I remember correctly, the movie aired on one of the big 3 (ABC, CBS or NBC) on a Saturday night back when the TV stations used to do the Saturday night movie thing. I've always assumed this movie was made-for-tv, but it could have been a movie that had been at theatres at one point.

From what I can remember, the movie was about a little girl who killed her family members one by one. The movie's climax has the little girl confronting her mother (trying to kill her?).

I must have seen this movie between five and ten years old. I guess the house I remember seeing it in would have put me around 10ish, which would've meant I saw this movie in the mid-80s. I don't know if that was the first time it aired or not.

My parents kept me from seeing scary movies as a kid, so seeing this movie was pretty scary to me at the time. I've always thought it was that movie that made me dislike the horror / scary movie genre. Now that I'm an adult, I'd like to watch this flick to see if it was really scary or not.

Any clues or ideas about how I can pinpoint this movie would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Weird. A few searches on Google, and I think I found it ...

http://80shorrormovies.com/dont-go-to-sleep.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Go_to_Sleep

The father's death sounds familiar too now that I've read the plot. It only makes sense that this is the movie if it re-aired later because that puts it at the wrong house based on my age.

sounds a bit like The Bad Seed.

hmmm...