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Demon Seed

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Original title

Demon Seed

Year

1977

Running time

95 min.

Country

United States

Director

Donald Cammell

Screenwriter

Robert Jaffe, Roger O. Hirson. Novel: Dean Koontz

Cast

Music

Jerry Fielding

Cinematography

Bill Butler

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Sci-Fi. Horror | Computers / Internet

Movie Groups

Dean Koontz Adaptations

Synopsis

Set in the not-too-distant future, Demon Seed is about a self-thinking computer Proteus (voiced by Robert Vaughn) that takes drastic measures when he suspects that his creators want to shut him down. His only way to do that is to conceive a child, and that's where Julie Christie's character comes in.

Awards: 1978: Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival: nominated to Grand Prix (Best Film).

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Critics' reviews

"[It] is remarkably prescient in its tackling of issues the cinema is only now catching up with, and Christie adds depth to the lady-in-peril heroine. Well worth reassessment. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Kim Newman: Empire
"What might have become an ingenious parable about the battle of the sexes ends up a dopey celebration of an obstetric abomination."

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post
"Excellent performances and direction (Donald Cammell), from a most credible and literate screenplay [from a novel by Dean R. Koontz], make production an intriguing achievement in story-telling."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Gadget-happy American moviemaking at its most ponderously silly."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Christie’s passionate, vulnerable performance keeps pulling the entire movie into her point of view"

Michael Sragow: The New Yorker
"A few of his labyrinthine concerns and much advanced animation work (plus optical assistance from once-celebrated avant-gardist Jordan Belson) spice the thin conceit, but it's a doomed project."

Time Out
"How did Cammell convince a studio to back a movie in which Julie Christie is violated by what looks like a copper Rubik's snake? Better not to ask (...) and soak in its moments of visionary hysteria,"

Rolling Stone

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Demon Seed

1977

Donald Cammell

5.9

(1,742)