Seedpeople

The sleepy little town of Comet Valley has been invaded by plants from outer space. Intent on taking over the Earth, the space plants have found a way to pollinate humans, thus turning them into walking seed carriers. Can the resourceful residents fight off the alien invaders, or is the planet doomed to become an alien garden? pretty lame sci-fi film. This was around the time that full moon films started to get cheap and it shows. The story is weak. The acting is passable at best. The production values are as mundane as the screenplay is. The creatures look goofy. "Seed people" is destined to collect dust on the shelves of bargain basement video stores. Unless, of course, people who drool over direct-to-video fodder, such as myself, prowl such places, once in a while finding a real hidden gem among other direct-to-video cheeseballs. "Seed people" is, unfortunately, just that: A direct-to-video cheeseball. Not a terrible one, just an average one. watchable at least. But not really recommended. 3.5/10.

SEEDPEOPLE concerns the tiny town of Comet Valley, its citizenry, and those who start acting strangely. Tom Baines (Sam Hennings) is in town looking for meteorites, and to possibly rekindle an old flame with local innkeeper, Heidi Tucker (Andrea Roth). Baines has no idea that something is happening in the nearby apple orchard, involving a gigantic, alien plant, its nocturnal secretions, and the bizarre effects thereof. In short order, an invasion is underway!

Sort of a crackpot combination of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and CRITTERS, this Charles Band / FULL MOON production is far better than it should be. Made entirely of cheeeze-corn, it still manages to be watchable, all the way to the "twist" ending...

Full Moon's 'Seedpeople' is a little composed late-night b-grade feature in the blatant frame of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', which does a lukewarm job with its by-the-numbers matter. It's beyond silly nonsense, but it has a likable charm and some spirit to it. Its starts off with a well-worn narrative of a survivor, geologist Tom Bains retelling the circumstances that led him to where he is now. In a small town known as Comet Valley, Bains comes in to investigate a possible meteorite from the past which had landed somewhere in the area. As soon as he gets there, people begin to act strangely and the town is soon under threat from outer space plants that arrived in the form of seeds. Their plans to pollinate humans can only be stopped by Bains and the town's crazy doc resident.

Harmless entertainment that doesn't waste much time, despite some stop and go passages involving minor side-dramas and stupid actions. Simple staples make their way into this slight premise (penned by Charles Band and Jackson Barr), as it's going for the light-weight paranoid creature features that filled the 1950s'. Sure the paranoia, suspense and attempts in cementing a gloomy air kind of falls flat with one of those endings, but it milks out a zippy attitude (due to Peter Manoogian's loose direction) and in the scheme of things uses the rural locations rather well. The goofy rubber special effects are a fair achievement, which are thrown around without a care to the world and the performances are nothing more than decent with the likes of Sam Hennnings, Bernard Kates, Andrea Roth and Dane Witherspoon. And hey there's no denying it contains some very convincing seed people acting… gee were they acting?

If you have an interest in Full Moon go ahead and if not, it won't make any difference. Acceptable low-scale fun by Full Moon.

This horror film was not entirely bad. As with most horror films crafted by Full Moon Studios back in the day, good or bad, it was very short. Meaning, that even if the experience is completely horrid, you at least have not invested a lot of time into watching it. Many of their films run under an hour and a half, many under an hour and twenty minutes. So, while you may be watching something that is not very good, chances are with Full Moon, you will not be watching it for very long. Another thing you get from time to time with Full Moon Studios is what is essentially a retelling of a better known story. With the film, Meridian, you basically had a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. With this film you get almost a remake of, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Not a particularly good remake of it either, but not completely horrible either. Just another in a long run of horror films, that have some good ideas, but a lack of execution prevents it from being really good, or in the case of this film good at all. This one is a bit boring and if you have seen a good deal of horror films you know exactly where it is going and how it is going to end. Though how the film played out made one think that there is no way that the film reached this outcome unless a lot of people dropped the ball in glorious fashion!

The story has a man in a hospital room rambling about something that needed to be checked on in his hometown. An FBI agent comes in and wants the man to recount his tale, so he does. We then flashback to when he first arrived at his hometown of Comet Valley. He wants to find pieces of a meteorite that is depicted in a drawing in a cave; however, something is not quite right in town. At the local bed and breakfast which is run by his ex, her niece seems to think the housekeeper is some sort of monster. Her father goes out to his farm and finds a strange growing pod like thing and is promptly covered in ooze that turns him into some strange creature. Soon, more and more people seem to be coming under something's control. An old man everyone refers to as Doc, but is thought of as the town crazy seems to know what is going on, but as the man who has come back to town and Doc try to stop the strange phenomenon it may already be too late.

The movie has some interesting qualities, but as I have said, you know where it is going. Every time they come back to the guy recounting his story to the FBI agent the agent always is like, "That is interesting, what about Doc…" Granted, when one sees how the guy came to the hospital and what led to him getting a concussion, one has to wonder how the heck did things come to that point. Also, one also has to wonder how he knew what had come of Doc. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers thing is very apparent throughout as you have your emotionless people, pods and a scene at the end where a truck has the pods and the guy runs after the truck. There are monsters in this one, but as much as I prefer monsters that are created rather than the computer generated ones of today, these look a bit goofy and at times roll around like the creatures in the Critter movies. Not a whole lot of bloodshed in this one and no nudity, which is not rare for a Full Moon film. Usually, they go all out or they hold it back to the point of being a bit dull which is the case in this one. Still, there are worse ways and worse films to spend your time on and at least you don't really spend much time on this one.

Seedpeople (1992) is a Full Moon Entertainment film that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a small town known for comet activity where a meteorite crashes and a mutation forms in the woods. An alien infestation breaks out and people start dying all over the city. Can the local sheriff stop the aliens and save mankind?

This movie is directed by Peter Manoogian (The Dungeonmaster) and stars Sam Hennings (Four Good Days), Andrea Roth (The Collector), Holly Fields (Spider-man 2) and Anne Betancourt (To Live and Die in LA).

The concept for this picture felt like a cross between Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and Critters, but not executed as well as either of those franchises. The creatures were more fun than good as most of the scenes felt like they were executed by puppets and stuffed animals. The flying sequences by the monster are really bad. It's unfortunate because some of the horror elements and kills are well done and some are atrociously bad. This is a fun watch if you're looking for something lighthearted and campy.

Overall, if you're looking for a bad, campy horror film that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is for you. I would score this a 4/10 and recommend seeing it once.