It was written by Pat Hackett and George Abagnalo, and was the last film produced by Andy Warhol before his death in 1987.

Also living in the house are Hazel's husband (Gordon Oas-Heim), her elderly mother (Mary Boylan), and her daughter-in-law, Mary (Susan Tyrrell), who has a small baby and is constantly awaiting the return of her absentee husband.

(Perry King) to perform a job for a client who wants to have her autistic son killed, simply because she can't stand dealing with him anymore.

Hazel needs the money because she's being shaken down by Detective Hughes (Charles McGregor), the cop who gives her police protection.

finds the thief working a late-night job in a garage and crushes his legs under a hydraulic lift.

Another scenario involves a neurotic woman named Estelle (Brigid Polk) who hires two girls to kill her neighbor's dog after she imagines that the man has insulted her.

The girls, one of whom is a compulsive pyromaniac, take Mary out for an evening before they perform their hit on the dog.

Before the hit girl can arrive, she decides to throw the baby out of her high-rise apartment window herself, saving the money she would have paid Hazel.

to perform his hit, but he cannot go through with it, not out of compassion or remorse, but because he seems annoyed that the mother cannot do the job herself since the boy is so completely helpless and passive.

According to Perry King, Andy Warhol wanted to make a movie about "bad women and incompetent men.

"[5] Filming began in May 1976 and it was the first time a Warhol movie started with a definite script.

Warhol decided to produce the film himself using money he had made during six months of doing portrait commissions.

[7] Producer Jeff Tornberg raised the funds for production mostly through selling Europe distribution rights – Andy Warhol's Frankenstein had been a big hit.

[citation needed] According to former Interview editor Bob Colacello, Warhol didn't invest any money in the film.

"[5] The lead role was meant to be played by Vivian Vance but she dropped out and was replaced by Carroll Baker.

[4] Warhol's longtime partner Jed Johnson, who had assisted Morrissey on previous films, was chosen to be the director.

"[10] King says he, Baker and Susan Tyrell threatened to quit the film if they shot a scripted scene where a baby was thrown out the window.

[11] The screening attracted over 750 people, including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Julie Christie, and George Cukor.

[15] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called it "a compellingly revolting experience" and "an occasionally amusing outrage for the Warhol audience.

"[16] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "isn't so bad as it is merely morbid and depressing.

"'Bad' comes close to the sort of thing that Joe Orton, the late English playwright, was doing in plays like 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' and 'Loot.'

[18] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote, "Johnson seems to have more technical polish than Warhol or Paul Morrissey, but the surprisingly crisp, professional cinematography on 'Bad' doesn't improve a rotten sensibility.

"[19] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "Beware of Andy Warhol's 'Bad.'

"[20] Maurice Yacowar wrote for the St. Catharines Standard, "The basic tone is of an absurd, catastrophic and banal society approached with detachment and understatement.

"[21] Joe Baltake of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote, "Director Johnson … stresses all the perversity and seediness inherent to the subject matter, adding even further color to it with some deadpan humor and touched of Grand Guignol … and regardless of what you might think of it, you'll have to agree that Carroll Baker's performance is the titanic supporting structure here.