The Seed

This is not a good movie. Plot is essentially "Mars Needs Women". Yet it is oddly acceptable in a 2am viewing kind of way. It's not a good film but I liked it?

Yes, it's not a good film but I liked it.

The Seed (2021) is a movie I recently watched on Shudder. The storyline for this picture surrounds a group of friends who get an AirBnB in the middle of the desert for drinking, fun and sun. When they find a creature that looks like an armadillo on the property their weekend gets flipped upside down.

This movie is directed by Sam Walker in his directorial debut and stars Lucy Martin (Vikings), Chelsea Edge (Suspicion) and Sophie Vavasseur (Resident Evil: Apocalypse).

The storyline for this is actually fairly unique and clever. This is a very unique alien film; unfortunately, the female characters are annoying as is their reaction to things. I will say the workout scene and the sequance the armadillo moves had me cracking up. There's also some unique ways of eating eggs in this. I will say I liked the transformation elements as the aliens motives become apparent and the ending is actually pretty good.

Maybe I'm the outlier but I didn't hate this as much as so many did. This is a unique addition to the genre that's worth a viewing. It isn't a masterpiece but I would score this a 6/10 and recommend seeing it once.

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 loved the gooey stuff, the creature, practical effects and scenes with trippy imagery. Yay to all of that.

Didn't like how annoying the characters were. I think that will put a lot of people off and they may not even make it to the goo. This could've been quite disturbing with a set of likeable characters. But I guess it was all intentional.

Props to the director for making a movie. It's hard. I'll watch his next film.

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.