The Seed

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.

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.

It tries to be different, going for an absurdist tone. The trouble is, the script contains zero jokes or physical comedy. The poor actresses are left to recite mundane dialogue in a 'quirky' way, which leads to scene after scene of unamusing waffle. The characters are thinly drawn and nobody is taking it seriously enough to warrant investment. The acting is otherwise ok, as is the editing and general production design. The less said about the soundtrack the better.

It's a very tame movie. The effects are poor. The occassional body horror is nowhere near as brave as films like Society or Reanimator which precede it by decades. It has no tension to speak of, so it doesn't deserve a horror label. There's no exploration of ideas, so it's not a sci-fi either. It attempts to bring eroticism into the main plot which could have been great, but the film is too scared to embrace titilation, exploitation and nudity. It also shies away from allegory, symbolism, commentary, character development... you know, all the stuff that makes good schlock tick. Ultimately, it's boring.