Demon Seed

Demon Seed
by Donald Cammell

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Actor: Berry Kroeger, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Julie Christie, Lisa Lu
Director: Donald Cammell
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: A (To the ((Needle)) Point) Review
Summary: 5 Stars

If anyone cares to see a film that set a bar so high that few dared to parallel, I highly recommend "Demon Seed," from 1977.

Yes younglings, it's older than many of you and your parents, but this film not only made a computer a central part of the home in nearly every way, which is finally being realized these past few years, but the artificial intelligence went to far as to create an offspring of flesh an blood by artificially inseminating an unwilling subject.

Yes, there are no SUPER COOL graphics which will blow you away. Occasionally the pace of the editing makes you wonder when the next scene will been seen. And since it was made in 1977, the dialogue can be dated.

BUT...

After you peel away the layer of what you think you can expect, you will come to realize that "Demon Seed" crosses boundaries yet to be established. And if it doesn't leave you unsettled, then you too must be a computer!

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Summary of Demon Seed

Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder - but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In "one of her finest, most vulnerable perfromances" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno-thriller based on the Dean Koontz novel. Packed with suspense, surprise and special effects, Demon Seed follows Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. Then Susan learns what Proteus wants: its own child, conceived in her womb and destined for domination.

One of the better examples of the mad-computer genre, Demon Seed is a sci-fi nightmare brimming with ideas. Julie Christie dominates the film as an unsuspecting woman whose house has been completely automated by her computer-genius husband (Fritz Weaver). He, in turn, has just completed Proteus, the world's smartest Artificial Intelligence machine. When Proteus traps Christie alone in the house, it--or he--has notions of passing his intellectual power to another generation... by impregnating her. One of the many intriguing things about Donald Cammell's film (based on a Dean Koontz yarn) is that Proteus's dreams are actually visionary and utopian, unlike the commercial uses planned for him by others. Of course, he's also scary as hell; the voice of Proteus, uncredited, unmistakably belongs to Robert Vaughn. Cammell, a fascinating and frustrated talent (he co-directed Performance), completed very few films and ultimately killed himself in 1996. Somewhere around the halfway point Demon Seed begins to break down dramatically and logically, yet it has so many ideas kicking around that it sticks in the mind anyway. A good Jerry Fielding score adds to the overall dread. --Robert Horton

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