Seed (2007)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It pains me to even allow this film 1 star! OH MY GOD it was a horrific waste of my life to insert the DVD and painfully watch the ridiculous excuse for Uwe Boll to see just how gory he could get on this one..Because he definitely didn't bother putting any thought into how this film would look to the viewer once completed..it is by far the stupidest attempt at a horror movie I have ever seen..you don't grow to love the characters or even like them..because pretty much you don't get to know even one of them, after some painful to watch (real life animal abuse) which is disturbing to think that it was even allowed on film, and I swear to god it seems like it lasts forever, we then get to see just how unintellectual the story writing is, the boredom, the waiting for something, anything to happen, the unrealistic idea that any human being no matter how (by the book) of an employee they are would ever allow someone that deranged to live after failed attempts at trying to kill him the "legal" way..we go into just a plethora of unimaginable and inhuman ways to kill someone..the gore..why? It was obvious he just wanted to try and top any gory horror film out there..it might have been acceptable if the story had an ounce of reasoning to it or even a believable plot..after seeing this I put it in the ranks of Cabin Fever 2, a waste of perfectly good movie watching time..Do yourself a favor and leave this one on the shelf and hopefully everyone will forget that Mr. Boll attempted to make a film in the first place. YUCK!

and I have nothing new to add. I have seen some of Uwe other films such as Postal, HOTD, AITD, and I think this is his best work. Not great,not even good but acceptable. Camera work, directing are strong points. CGI and dialogue are weak. Why the 9*? As another said to counter the ridiculous 1* ratings others, some who have not even watched, are giving. Do I think Uwe is really trying to make a "deep film" about the level of inhumanity in our world? Do I believe being repulsed by serial killer monsters while skinning animals alive elsewhere in the world is par for the course shows how close we all are to being monsters is Uwe's thesis? No, I think he is just going for the money, (name 5 people who aren't). Exploitation film? Yes. Technically proficient? Yes.You want to see see a real 1* film go watch Highlander II or Dungeons and Dragons with Jeremy Irons.Seed realistically deserves a 5/10.

After having seen and loved Postal (yes, I actually loved Postal), I decided to try another Uwe Boll film and I picked out Seed because I happened to stumble on it in a local DVD-store and it's supposed to be one of his better films.While the first 10 to 15 minutes of the film were very promising and seemed like the beginning of a not too mainstream psychological thriller, it soon went downhill from there and eventually degraded into one of the most generic slasher films I've seen so far, including a massive amount of plot holes, unrealistic emotional responses and sub-par acting. It seems like Boll tried his best to come up with a decent plot but after a while just gave up on it. Maybe he should stick to comedy?! The few good things about this film is that he does manage to create an overall creepy atmosphere, that the special effects are better than I expected and the soundtrack does go well with the overall atmosphere, but the unbalanced pacing of this film combined with the utter generic nature thereof makes he last half hour quite tedious to watch, which ruined my experience altogether. There are a very fairly well done shocking scenes, but they seem to be there for the shock value alone. And let's not forget the camera work that was pretty nauseating at times.I hope Uwe Boll will one day learn what makes a good film, because between a lot of horrible films he does seem to make a decent film every now and then. Seed just isn't one of those.

If at least the cruelty and drawn out deaths had a purpose to the story to justify their inclusion but the script was just unintelligible and just plain stupid.It went nowhere, the story had no legible continuity. It was just a bunch of drawn out pointless snuff scenes and a really stupid ending tacked on as if to say.. "the end *beep* you my haters and my few defenders for watching my garbage."I don't get it, a masked murderer who never had his mask removed in prison, a prison rape scene that was suppose to be the guards raping a a ugly deformed serial killer and getting killed by him and nothing else? no explanation, no punishment, a really weak main cop character that was a waste of a actor like Pare, who didn't try to off the guy who killed his cops, tortured a baby, a woman and a dog and sent them to you to watch on video.Cops who for some unknown reason all wandered off in the dark by themselves (individually) in his farm house at night like a bunch of poorly written teenage characters to be killed one at a time like a bunch of idiots, and no other cop hears them die in the darkness one after the other and just keep wandering around for no reason till each is killed in turn. A bunch of horrible real life animal snuff scenes in the beginning for no reason or explanation, was he reminiscing, was he watching it to masturbate, was it comedy for him... what was it? nope Boll just thought to throw it in to upset animal lovers.. whatever. then Pare believing the word of a psycho path to let his family go if he kills himself... a more gullible, stupider cop you never saw in a film. I dunno why I try not to totally hate his works. I try to find some reason to explain a horror writers art but this stuff... pure crap. Boll what are you doing anymore? I hope you figure it out because I know a lot of more deserving people who can't dream to get the budget you get over and over again to make their movies.If you want to see Boll actually at his best check out "Postal" it was actually okay.