The Seed

The Seed is an abysmal downer of a movie, with a plot that's so vapid, and characters who're utterly despicable. It's repetitive, boring, and substantially dull to the core. It doesn't even act as dumb fun. It's not fun, because it's unnervingly stretched out to the point that I had to skip forward through several scenes. The conversations between the girls have no point, the girls are highly dumb, and the mystery itself is a ticket to snooze-world. The alien has a face which could probably be the most laughable thing I've ever seen. And that's the only funny part of this. The moment I stopped taking that creature seriously, impatience steeped in, and add on top of that the shallow characters who're annoying as hell. So, I didn't care.

Now, I don't have all bad things to say. It's technically competent. The acting by the three leads was good, it's pretty gory, and there's a particular sequence, with girls and alien, more than halfway into the film which was pretty cool, and trippy. I give it 4 stars; 1 for the acting, 1 for the gore, and 2 for the mind trip sequence.

I'd probably have forgiven this, and would've maybe given 2 more stars, if our leading ladies' boobies got more screentime.

It's ok, funny (not hilarious), creepy (not bone shatteringly scary) and weird (silly).

It's a take on modern life/tech meets 80's creature feature for some vain girls.

The positives I think this movie brings are its use of colour, I think it has a nice way of using really poppy colours against its neutral backgrounds. It's other positive is the practical effects. Practical just trumps CGI every time. It as such another layer to the film making. Please can we bring this back!

The story is very paint by numbers and has definitely been done many times before but I wasn't that bothered by it. My biggest issue was the characters, they are poorly wrote for me. I don't understand why they are friends, particularly the brown haired one. There is no backstory and she just seems so out of place the whole movie. She also does really out of character things in line with the other characters but it's not done in a way that shows she trying to fit in, just "oh now she likes coke". I think her character needed more background to why she is friends with these people. That's totally not the point of the movie but it drive me insane lol.

In the 1960s a particular genre of low-budget indie was developed based on the quaint and perhaps old-fashioned notion that if you base a film on 3 or 4 pretty girls basically doing nothing -- like laundry or cooking -- a market for the film will somehow appear. To a large extent this is the current and most recent exponent of that "lost fork" in film history and therefore worth a look. For the first hour all you get is three pretty ladies (including Lucy Martin who stole all her scenes in VIKINGS) doing basically nothing. You will either like that ... or you won't. The last 30 mins is some sort of sci-fi nonsense that even a clever fifth grader could not explain, so just ignore it. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

I looked at the 5 star reviews on shudder and thought this might be worth a watch. It was ok at best and nothing to get excited by.

For a low budget movie it's ambitious but ultimately a bit slow paced.

I really wanted to like it and maybe went in with unrealistic expectations because of the stellar reviews.

Not so bad you'd turn it off but not good enough to be remembered.