Shudder Streaming, Body Horror The Seed (2021)
What if the 80s extraterrestrial movie Alien met three beautiful women instead of a brother and sister intent on returning him home? That is just one question you could ask after watching Sam Walker’s debut feature film The Seed. A visually stunning horror comedy that will delight those who enjoy the stranger pool of films, The Seed film takes three friends and sticks them in a fancy pants cabin for a weekend of content creation. They’ve come to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. A meteor shower begins by shorting out the trio’s mobile devices before delivering a smelly mass of what they refer to as “a dead bear or something.”
Deidre (Lucy Martin, Vikings), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur, Resident Evil: Apocalypse), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge, I Hate Suzie) are hands down the best thing about this bizarre body horror science fiction movie. The three are likable in their vapid-centric characters. Offset by having one of the friends, Charlie, be less enthusiastic about having a social media presence, they mingle and enjoy themselves in the same way. A much-needed antidote to Deidre and Heather, having Charlotte around enabled some of the more feministic attributes to show through.
The Seed Movie
The gore-forward title often reminded me of The Neon Demon, both aesthetically and in its brightly lit color palette. There is a scene at the end of The Seed that is framed in a similar context to 2017’s Revenge action thriller, taking a blood-soaked survivor and filling the screen with its powerful presence. There is much to like about the cinematography. I will probably remember incidental moments that were executed like that over the overall storyline and film itself. There isn’t an excessive amount of gore in The Seed. Rather filmmakers preferred to use practical special effects that were effective.
As for the creature itself, if you’ve ever seen the film The Master Cleanse, crossed with E.T. would be one way to describe it. In the first quarter of the film, the girls referred to it as some sort of Armadillo without its shell. The dark comedic accents are reliant on subtitles in dialogue instead of having the friends do overtly foolish things. They make uninformed decisions, which is part and parcel of a film like The Seed but I was glad it left out gross-out humor in this instance. The running joke of descriptive terms used to talk about the creature is one of the more stifled laughing checkpoints.
The Seed film is an enjoyable weird horror-comedy. Perhaps one that won’t knock your socks off. However, if you don’t find yourself mouthing “What the….?” at some point, you’re probably not paying attention.
The Seed movie is rated
3 Fun sci-fi creature feature movies out of 5
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Charlotte’s point of difference as a less shaggable counterpart is mentioned at the beginning of The Seed film. She hasn’t had sex in a while. As Deidre and Heather have a more pointed interest in the other sexes, they were more easily affected by our horny alien. Much in the same way, their neighbor Edna is found with a shotgun wound rather than pregnant with alien babies.
Charlotte kills the blobby blue-eyed creature. Now she needs to stop her two friends. They’ve been impregnated by the creature. The alien showed Charlotte an image of the babies he was making ready to emerge and take over the world. The only way Charlotte can stop her friends from infecting the world is to kill them.
The Seed is what would happen if E.T. hadn’t been an innocent creature with a glowing appendage and instead was intent on destroying the Earth, one female at a time.
