Demon Seed1977
Demon Seed (1977)
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Cast
as Susan Harris
as Alex Harris
as Walter
as Computer's Voice
as Petrosian
as Royce
as Cameron
as Mokri
as Soon Yen
as Amy
as Warner
as Night Operator
as Warner
as Technician
as Technician
as Joan Kemp
as Housekeeper
as Scientist
as Marlene
as Baby
as Bit
as Baby
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Critic Reviews for Demon Seed
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Very uncomfortably directed: the performances are stilted and metallic (whatever is supposed to be assumed about robots taking over), and the perfunctory visuals leave the ramshackle plotdangerously over-exposed.
Christie's passionate, vulnerable performance keeps pulling the entire movie into her point of view.
What might have become an ingenious parable about the battle of the sexes ends up a dopey celebration of an obstetric abomination.
As decadent and out of control as DEMON SEED may appear to be, Cammell knew exactly what he was doing, making a futuristic sex thriller by way of brain melting acid trip.
Demon Seed is dark, unpleasant and eventually psychedelic, as might be expected from the visionary behind Performance...
It might have been a little bit different to watch this when it first came out but now I feel like there's so many other films that kind of tackle this idea... so in this kind of film it didn't really grab me.
Audience Reviews for Demon Seed
By reading the synopsis, you can tell that this is a very strange sci-fi horror movie. It's a very creepy tale of machines gone bad, you'll never look at computers the same way again.
Super Reviewer
A sci-fi/horror film in the tradition of Cronenberg or Polanski's Rosemary's baby, but instead of dealing with supernatural forces, it deals with the dangers of technology, how machinery can acquire its own will and start harming its creator in order to trascend their state, ala HAL 9000. Scenes of vexations and torture, Jerry Fielding's score and a good performance by Julie Christie are the reasons to enjoy it.
Super Reviewer
One of those 70s "concept" sci-fi movies that are allegedly based on "factual science" that look so laughable now. A computer imprisons a woman in her home in an attempt to couple with her (how it intends to do this remains a mystery) surrounded the usual futuristic flares, kipper ties and wing collars. Amusingly dated, and the suspense elements are creepy/funny depending on your point of view.
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