Demon Seed
1977
A dedicated scientist's new computer kidnaps his wife and sets out to control the world by cloning a child from her. Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz. Read more
| Starring | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Barry Kroger |
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| Director | Donald Cammell |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Demon Seed
A dedicated scientist's new computer kidnaps his wife and sets out to control the world by cloning a child from her. Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz.
| Starring | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Barry Kroger, Robert Vaughn |
|---|---|
| Director | Donald Cammell |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 31 Oct 2005 Production year: 1977 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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This literate sci-fi take on Rosemary's Baby, based on a Dean R Koontz novel, is as weird, provocative and compelling as you would expect from Donald Cammell, the co-director of Performance. Julie Christie is dazzling as the victim of a power-crazed computer that decides it's greater than its genius creator and malfunctions to conceive a child, by terrifying means. A claustrophobic cautionary tale that shrouds its incredible special effects in a powerful hallucinatory atmosphere, with Robert Vaughn providing the creepily compelling voice of the machine.
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Science fiction at the end of its tether, all very smart and self-conscious, but at this length very tasteless. Hitchcock would have got it into a television half-hour.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Demon psycho Computor.
This 1977 film was decades before its time. It is a truely fantastic film. Basically mankind has enabled his computer to be able to do all of the things a man can. The computer has now achieved its own consciousness, with its own wants and wills. The one thing a computer cannot do is conceive a child. The computer captures a women and somehow creates life with this women...but to what end.... A very old...but brilliantly conceived story.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Of its time, but engaging
One has to watch Demon Seed with the open mind that in the 1970's computers would rule the world as soon as they learned to talk. Like HAL in 2001, as soon as we switch on Proteus, we're in trouble and we should have seen it coming. Although the subject matter of this movie is fairly distasteful at times, what saves it are the dignified performances of Julie Christie and Fritz Weaver. Christie in particular turns what could have been an unplayable role into a believable person. Performance co-director Donald Cammell clearly revels in the trippy visual effects available at the time and creates several diveting moments, not the least of which is the mobile icon Proteus creates for himself, which is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Bathed in the MGM sci-fi look of the 70's (see also Logan's Run and Soylent Green) Demon Seed comes recommended for sci-fi fans. Watch with an open mind and you'll enjoy more. Oh, and great voice casting. If you're going to create a super-intelligent computer with carnal designs on the first woman in sight, who else would it sound like but Robert Vaughn!
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