Demon Seed
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Movie Reviews of Demon Seed
Movie Review: serve it on a demonette
Summary: 3 Stars
This is OK as a Sci-fi thriller & at least served as a break from the lunar gill masters that hump women (all the girls love that kind right?). Now we have, jump on the machine its stronger & lasts longer. Was it easier to get a dates legs apart after the monster / machine thing? While that is what is visually on the screen it's the effective way they work the psychological horror into the dialog that makes this worth a look. The evil computer had been done before but they still found a way to make it creepy again. By the way, you can't rent this at an in-vitro clinic.
The real show here though is Julie Christie who has played in some great off-beat thrillers. Try "Don't Look Now" if you've missed them all. There you get Donald Sutherland too. Here she carries it totally alone. It doesn't hurt that she is one of those continental women that is hot without DD breasts. The machine had no use for them.
The introspective looks she makes into their? relationship & the wavering between no way in hell & OK buddy get it over with so I can move on are great. I was tickled to death that the computer starts out by asking. You know, like a lot of guys. When the answer is no the computer says OK & takes his club to her head. He then does what he dastardly wanted to do with her. Don't you know its the first time for her & she gets pregnant. Some of this could've been rethought but it was "their" first time at almost creating a sub-genre.
There is a lot to enjoy here. Don't go in thinking that Sci-fi & horror would be dead if this hadn't been made. Demon Seed is over-hyped a lot. A good movie to watch! 3.5 stars
Movie Review: DISTURBING HI-TECH ANTICHRIST WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME
Summary: 3 Stars
Way ahead of its time and long overdue for a slick remake, this 1977 production is about Proteus, a suddenly self-aware computer who desires a flesh and blood life. Don't ask how, but it rapes its maker's wife to conceive itself in a hybrid but humanoid form.
This disturbing hi-tech anti-Christ tale gets more relevant every day as the waves of new digital technology and bio-medical breakthroughs impact the planet and all who dwell thereon. Organic, "life-form" computers are the next predicted wave. Are you ready?
Julie Christie, delivers a surprisingly potent performance in this little known film. She exudes vulnerability, terror then acceptance as she resigns herself to her unthinkable fate as the mother of a brilliant, beautiful, state-of-the-art techno-baby programmed for world domination.
If you enjoy being creeped out, this is the one that will enter your mind and haunt your dreams. The tag line was: "Fear for her." And you will. Too bad there's no Christie commentary.
Movie Review: Disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I read the book first, and was disappointed in a few things. Mostly that Proteus is totally in love with her in the book, and is a straight up cold blooded killer in the movie version. Also, in the book Proteus was able to access multiple systems and had a human assistant that he broke out of an institution or jail. That dude was hard core in the book, and Proteus would get pissed when he got a boner from looking at Susan. His assistant killed Walter. Plus, the special effects were about as gay as you can get. Even for 1977.