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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.

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.

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.

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.

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))

Sure, as I sat down to watch this 2021 horror comedy "The Seed" from writer and director Sam Walker, I must admit that I hadn't even ever heard about the movie. But it had an interesting cover, and the synopsis did sound interesting enough. And of course with it being a horror comedy that I hadn't already seen, of course I managed to find the time to do so.

Well, the concept idea behind "The Seed" was interesting enough, but the movie itself, in terms of being enjoyable and entertaining, not so much. The movie just felt flaccid and sort of pointless. There were no particular drive to the movie, and once it ended, I just shrugged it off and figured that I had essentially just wasted 91 minutes on almost nothing.

The storyline was poorly brought to fruition on the screen, and since not a whole lot of anything worthwhile or interesting happening as the movie snailed its way from start to end, it was a struggle to sit through this ordeal of a movie.

The acting performances were actually good enough. The movie had a very, very small cast ensemble, but I will say that they actually carried the movie well enough with their performances. Just a real shame that the storyline was rubbish. I wasn't familiar with the cast that acted in "The Seed".

As for "The Seed" being a horror comedy, well the elements of both genres were not really shining through. I wasn't laughing throughout the course of the movie, nor did writer and director Sam Walker even manage to make me smile. Nor were I thrilled, excited or terrified throughout the course of "The Seed". So it was a swing and a miss of a movie.

It should be noted, though, that the special effects and visual effects in the movie were actually good enough and interesting. But they could only do so much for salvaging a downhill train wreck of a movie.

If you enjoy horror comedy movies, like I do, then you might just as well slither on to another movie, because "The Seed" simply just isn't worth the time, money or effort.

My rating of "The Seed" lands on a three out of ten stars, as the movie felt wholly and completely irrelevant and pointless.

3 women head for a weekend away to a swanky house in the desert. Two of them are social media influencers and one is not. In fact she isn't on any of the things and has a flip phone. A weird lil creature comes down in a meteor show and things get more and more body horror and bugnuts crazy from there. It takes awhile to ramp up and feels a little like a short film idea stretched thin in places. But once it does ramp up there is some gnarly visuals and practical gore effects and it gets very fun. It's a strong debut independent horror from a brand new director.

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.

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.

I'm glad I decided to take a shot on this free screening because it was an important reminder to myself. This is why I generally avoid most contemporary horror. I needed to be reminded that movies this bad still get funded and produced somehow. Consuming bad media & art always functions as one of the the greatest forms of inspiration: if they can do it, and I confidently feel that I could do way better, that means I should be able to make it happen at some point too. Thank you for the inspiration, The Seed.

Originality: none acting: they did the best they could with the material script: you can feel yourself getting dumber with each painful, vapid, redundant conversation referred to as horror/comedy: but, it's not funny... visuals: ok Panos Cosmatos...cool, but uninspired and feels out of place cinematography, sound editing, and music: solid

Simply put, The Seed is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time.

I don't understand the hate for this film!? It's definitely different but surely isn't that a good thing! It's weird, odd, daft but in some places pretty memorable! I love things with aliens in it and this is definitely a modern day social media take on things!

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 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.

"The Seed" has some genuine interesting moments of body horror and sexuality mixed into a very bland and uneventful story. Great effects though and some nice visual moments, but all in all thus could have been better.

....it stinks like a overflown septic tank.

Yes, society is devolving. Our collective IQ is decreasing together with our vocabulary, because I have the impression that the only words learned by people nowadays are the f... and the s... words. It is unbelievable.

Pretty soon we will be communicating using grunts and gestures. Mark my words.

Now, the whole "movie" is a bomb, a big bomb. The girls are annoying, their conversation is as pleasant as hearing nails scrathing a chlakboard. They are not funny, they are just unpleasant people. And the story (the thing that falls from space...) has been told in much better ways before. The Blob (1958), for example, is a masterpiece compared to this trainwreck.

And the space creature....omg...The word "lame" is an understatement to describe it. It just looks like a shell-less turtle.

All in all this a total bust. I wonder how and why these bombs get made.

Two legs of mutton dressed as lamb with terrible makeup and a plain jane find an alien critter then bore you to death for 55 minutes before stuff gets just plain weird. Gets mildly entertaining at the 1hr 13 mark but very predictable, don't bother unless you're bored.

If you have a more than passing interest in Horror and Science Fiction - you have seen all this before. Night of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Society are the ones which sprang to mind. That's not to say it wasn't bad. It feels like an ambitious "pandemic" film with a small cast and few locations.

The story is basic. The characters are basic. The acting was fine - vapid characters with vapid dialogue.

It wasn't until after viewing, I noticed it's a comedy. It's fun at times...but not that funny or clever. Just an opinion. It seemed more Cabin Fever than Cabin in the Woods.

Practical effects and gore make-up were interesting and different enough. There were a few instances where it was quite successful in being creepy in the bright light of day. Patrick Nagel meets H. R. Giger.

It would have worked so much better at an hour long. 90 minutes just made the padding all the more obvious.

There is a sexual component (if the title wasn't enough of a hint) that leads to some surreal imagery, which recalled Man Who Fell To Earth a bit.

It was fine. Definitely not as bad as some reviews would make it seem. Just...not a lot of content you could call 'unique". Fine entry level body horror.

I saw this film last Friday night at fright fest. It funny, it's dark and trippy and great to see someone championing practical effects again. It also seems to be saying that social media is a weird sexy armadillo that has come from space to rape us. Which is hilarious and also probably quite accurate. The acting was solid throughout and despite a few moments where you sort of felt the budget it was a crazy ride. I love horror films but as a fan the reality is that these days the genre is full of stock plots where you can see what's coming a mile off, but you will never see what's coming next with this. Body horror, old school practical effects and a scene involving eggs which made my the lady next to me say Jesus Christ quite loud. Perhaps not for everyone but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Apparently it's coming out on Shudder at some point so good for them for supporting interesting talent like this.

I watched this movie only based on the title and cover, without even reading the synopsis. It was quite an effective movie. I believe it wanted to be a throwback to og horror movies in an humorous way and to some extent it worked. Barebone but sufficient plot and exposition, the practical effects definitely stand out, the cast is quite alright as well. The Photography is enjoyable on the saturated side. Maybe it could have been more but I don't think it was the point. Alien demonic creatures oozing petroleum seems to be a trend also 🤔

I'd give it a 6.2 but a 7 will do since it got trashed good time.

Nothing happens for nearly an hour except watching semi-clad ladies walk around (not that I minded that), but the story is just recycled from many a cheap horror science fiction; it does get gory in the last 10 minutes or so, no CGI, that I noticed the effects looked practical, so kudos there. I liked the three leads, but nothing we have not seen done better before.

This was awful and not even in a good B-grade way. No schlock and no being in on the joke. Just terrible. Acting was stupid, dialogue was worse, and the pacing taking an excruciatingly- painful Cleveland steamer on a hapless watcher's chest.

The only part I enjoyed was a spiritual nod to Peter Jackson's Dead Alive with a final 1/4 that had some gross-out, splatter scenes.