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Actor: Berry Kroeger, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Julie Christie, Lisa Lu
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, 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 computer gets the hots for Julie ...
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm a diehard Julie Christie fan. I'm old enough to have seen the original when it first came out in 1977. On opening night, I was the very first person in the theater (which for the most part remained nearly empty, if I remember correctly after all these years). At the time, I was a gnurdy grad student at Urbana, one of the original supercomputer sites and one of the original sites that led to what was to become the Internet revolution. For fans of evil computers, by the way, Urbana was the birthplace of HAL.

Until last night, I haven't re-watched it, so it was a nostalgic trip for me. Adding to the overall tone of the movie was the violent thunderstorm that broke out while I was watching it. From the geeky side, I broke out laughing when I saw the then state-of-the-art 8 inch floppies. From the sexual fantasy side, a robotic arm tieing Julie up, an electric scissors cutting away her clothes, a probe coming at her ...need to stop here. There was a romantic, poetic side to the Proteus/Julie encounter, however. Movies are always filled with cliches representing orgasmic moments ... blowing curtains, crashing waves, hilarious imagery in Airplane. Here, we see exploding galaxies; the ultimate Big Bang (haha).

Whether this is a great movie or great sci-fi or great commentary on man/machine/environment interaction (it now appears ahead of its time on environmental concerns) is somewhat besides the point. This is a movie for Julie fans, since she is the sole human for 90+% of the film. Though she had long lost the youthful glow she had in Dr. Zhivago and the quiet beauty she had in Far from the Madding Crowd, she was still hot (a brief voyeuristic scene as Proteus ogles her as she steps out of the shower and looks herself over). Hey, she gets a computer worked up. Proteus's CPU was overclocking at 100% utilization, his RAM buffer was certainly full, and his hard drive (not floppy) was burning out its bearings revved up in overdrive. I can imagine the alarms at the NOC going off as the overtemp sensors kicked in; now that's an unexpected scenario for emergency cooling systems.

This DVD has been discontinued and is currently being sold off at bargain-basement clearance prices. Get `em while they're hot.

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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.Running Time: 94 min.System Requirements:Running Time 94 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 012569675957

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