Seed

Plot synopsis:
Max Seed (Will Sanderson) is a serial killer responsible for the deaths of 666 people over a six year period who is on the loose. The police receive videos portraying the slow death and decomposition of creatures ranging from a cockroach, a Labrador dog, a baby, and fully-grown woman in an underground chamber. They trace the videos to the residence of Seed. Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Paré) captures Seed,Max Seed's background story is revealed that , as a boy, a reclusive and antisocial Max Seed was disfigured in a school bus crash that killed everyone else involved in it. Starting In 1973, Seed began torturing and murdering people, filming some of his victims starving to death in his locked basement, and ultimately racking up a bodycount of 666. Now in this current setting (in 1979), Seed is arrested by Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Paré) in a sting operation that claims the lives of five of Bishop's fellow officers. Seed is sentenced to death by electric chair, and incarcerated on an island prison, where he is a model inmate, only acting out when he kills three guards who try to rape him.On Seed's execution date, the electric chair fails to kill him after two shocks. Not wanting Seed to be released due to a state law that says any convicted criminal who survives three jolts of 15,000 volts each for 45 seconds walks, the prison staff and Bishop declare Seed dead, and bury him alive in the prison cemetery. A few hours later, Seed digs his way out of his grave and returns to the prison, where he kills the executioner, doctor and warden before swimming back to the main land. The next day, while investigating the massacre, Bishop realizes Seed was responsible when he discovers the serial killer's empty cemetery plot.Over the course of several months Seed resumes his killing spree, and kills dozens of more people, with one long shot showing him beating a bound woman with a chisel for five straight minutes. One day, a videotape showing Bishop's house is sent to the detective's office. Knowing this means Seed is going to go after his family, Bishop races home, finding his wife, Sandy, and eight-year-old daughter, Emily, gone, and the four officers charged with guarding the house are found dismembered in the bathroom.Driving to Seed's old house, Bishop is lured into a basement room containing a television and a video camera, and locked inside. The television turns on, and depicts Seed with Sandy and Emily in the attic. Emily informs Bishop that Seed wants Bishop to shoot himself in order to save his wife and daughter. When Bishop hesitates, Seed brutally kills Sandy by shooting her in the head with a nail gun, prompting Bishop into shooting himself in the head, believing that doing so will make Seed release his daughter. Instead, Seed takes the little girl to the room containing her father's corpse, and locks her in it. As Emily sobs for her two dead parents, the film suddenly ends with Max Seed contining to kill with no end in sight to his bloody rampage.

Tags: revenge, flashback

Review:
It's essentially Uwe's entry into the current gorno/torture porn fad, and was partly motivated by the likes of Hostel not being as harsh as they were claiming.The biggest shock i had during the film was when the credits rolled and i realised i'd just had an emotional reaction to an Uwe Boll movie that wasn't amusement or boredom.
Like those films, the big moments are morally questionable - many will find the opening scenes showing real-life animal cruelty (footage obtained from PETA) too heavy with too little purpose, but personally I found they gave the film real edge - you lose your safety net of Hollywood R-rated violence and feel genuine revulsion.
The ending too was a nice surprise and something that mainstream horrors rarely go for these days.Boll-haters (and there's a planet full of those) are still going to find faults with Seed, and there are many, but it is in a class above all his previous output, and gives me hope that he will one day turn around his (undeniably impressive) poor reputation and produce material that is not only acceptable, but actually genuinely enjoyable.
Director Uwe Boll is commonly regarded as a terrible film-maker, and his sick psycho killer flick Seed is unlikely to radically alter this general perception, being an absolute mess in the script department; however, if nothing else, it does prove that Boll has balls.Packed full of sadistic, no-holds-barred violence, the film is truly nasty stuff from start to finish, the director clearly not intending to make any new friends; as a result, I can't help but feel a sneaking admiration for this movie maverick, a man for whom the words 'quit', 'diplomacy' and 'restraint' obviously do not exist.During the opening credits, Boll even has the nerve to show PETA footage depicting real-life atrocities perpetrated on defenceless animals; I can only guess that this was an attempt to show the viewer just how inhumane people can be, but it comes across as a cheap tactic to shock the audience.Thankfully, everything from here on in is achieved through special effects, although with numerous graphic murders, a baby among the many victims, it's still definitely not for the easily offended.
Yes, Boll sure knows how to upset and disturb; all he needs to do now is perfect telling a decent story (one that isn't so obviously flawed), hire a decent lighting technician (some scenes were way too dark), and he might be able to silence his critics without having to punch their lights out.4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb..
Probably not a bad idea because I'm going to go out on a limb and say the guy in the mask is probably a brutal actor...Additionally, there is enough splatter to appease any horror fan and a nice little ending that doesn't leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside.I know Uwe Boll is known for making ridiculous films, but he came through with one here.
Mindful of the fictional law that says anyone still alive after 3 attempts must go free, though if you'd been fried with that much electricity why would you want to, they pronounce him legally dead and bury him, only for the disgruntled killer to resurface and begin a whirlwind tour of his gaolers.Boll begins his 'exploration of nihilistic rage' with Seed watching footage of animals being tortured for experimental purposes.
Yes, we're worthless, gormless sadists and worse than that, we won't give Uwe a good rating on the IMDb. In short, humanity is bunk.Of course you might think that Uwe relies on our worst excesses for his livelihood and with that in mind it's a bit of a bipolar piece, on one hand hating its audience and positively basting itself in the sour milk of human kindness  the milk that poor old Boll has had to drink for so long, while simultaneously whipping out its member and inviting those with a pornographic lust for on screen depravity to marvel at its sheer arse splitting girth.The result says nothing about society and its discontents, more the corrosive effect bad press is having on its director.
"I wanted to make a horror movie that was no fun" Boll told the audience at the film's world premiere and he has, on that flimsy manifesto, succeeded but if this was supposed to convince the director's detractors that he was a serious genre filmmaker, he'll need something genuine to say as well as a better, more original way of saying it..
I think not.Meanwhile, Michael Pare acts like a listless, long-lost brother to James Remar's character on "Dexter": a cop who sits at his desk a lot, thumbing through newspaper clippings, and watching pointless stop-motion scenes of decomposing animals and people trapped in Seed's lair.
But after seeing 'Seed' my laugh froze at my face.Like most of the people who have reviewed the movie so far, I saw 'Seed' at London's FrightFest and I was really surprised by the work of Uwe. I have seen most of his films (including 'Amoklauf', which was not bad) and I must admit that he really improved as a director.
This is what Uwe would like to do to all these guys who do not even bother to watch his movies and just put 1 star at IMDb. That is why this dark, brutal and nihilistic tale with some really gruesome scenes is so credible and sincere.
The scene when Seed is hitting a woman on the head with a hammer was really harsh and hard to watch (although you can see some CGI effects were added), not to mention that it reminded me of that infamous fire extinguisher scene from notorious "Irreversible" by Gaspar Noe. But this was Uwe Boll movie, remember?
Of course the movie has it flaws: a couple of pointless scenes, lousy dialogue, mediocre acting, but most of the time it is really interesting.Uwe is learning from his mistakes, trying to improve his skills and make movies he wants, while all the people around the world do not want him to continue with that, filling Internet with all that mockery, insults, hatred.
"Seed" doesn't deserve all the bile and hatred on IMDb.It's arguably the best Uwe Boll's horror film so far-an unflinching exercise in barbaric human cruelty that shows that the man is the cruelest animal.The movie begins with archival footage of humans being exceptionally cruel to a variety of suffering animals which truly made me squirm.Max Seed is a brutal serial killer.He filmed many of his murders.The decomposing baby scene is quite unsettling.After killing several policemen in his dark house Seed is captured.He is quickly executed on electric chair and buried in a shallow grave.However the killer rises from its tomb ready for sickening vengeance...Very gloomy,raw and disturbing horror film with truly revolting hammer murder scene.It's an exceptionally well-acted and unrelenting assault on viewer's mind.I applaud Uwe Boll for making such savage piece of horror.Ignore the negative reviews and see it for yourself.9 out of 10..
Which is saying something, considering the main protagonist is not a based-on-true-life serial killer but a masked murderer in the same cartoonish mould as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.Uwe Boll has made a truly scary movie.
While movies like "Malevolence" and "Hatchet" steal people's money and time, this slipped in under the radar and fifteen years from now, some horror fan somewhere will watch this and say, "holy crap, how come I never heard of this?" And the reason will have been because people make judgments before seeing it.
In here, Boll tries so desperately hard to come across as controversial and shocking that he overlooks numerous other elements that any movie essentially needs to exist, like a plot, a narrative structure, character development, tension building "Seed" is a hideous movie, full of gratuitous filth and incompetent padding footage.
After being buried alive because the electric chair couldn't fry him, Max Seed crawls back to the surface and goes on a brand new killing spree; this time mainly focusing on the people who arrested and executed him.
It really makes you think that Uwe Boll simply neglects all advice and criticism, and just stubbornly shoots his movies the way he wants to.
For the entire movie the shoulder-held camera is moving, not shaking but like on a wave.Unfortunately, this movie starts from the first second with some real life brutal animal torture footage provided by PETA, for no good reason whatsoever.
Seed is a unique brutal horror movie and an accomplishment for Boll- just don't watch the first few minutes..
I'm a huge horror fan and i generally like Boll's movies, not because they are movies of the year but cause they always deserve you a brainless moment, pretty good when you use your brain all the time to code softwares.
SEED is a thoroughly disturbing film -- evoking a truly nihilistic and utterly horrible feeling of dread from the (grotesque) opening shot onwards.Sparsely lit (although shot very well) with a minimal cast and setting; it conjures the ol' boogie man fear along with the anxiety of being in the dark that has resided in us all from a young age with its antagonist Max Seed, a seemingly unstoppable entity of pure malevolent evil and the cop(s) that try and end his reign of terror.Using imagery for the pure purpose of upsetting the viewer Uwe Boll has crafted a horror film that is very minimal in its use of gore but very, very frightening in its execution.
While this film as all films has flaws, I ignored the negative comments and score on IMDb and actually sat down with my wife to watch it.It was both disturbing and unusual, a very fresh take on a stale genre.From the opening scenes of mutilation of animals which both disturbed and got your attention, to the purposeful way the main antagonist is kept in the shadows.This is not a film for those who enjoy being spoon fed all the answers, this film mechanic works best as a very personal experience different depending on your own outlook on life.As for Uwe Boll there seems to be an almost legendary hatred of him which I don't understand at all, He isn't the worst or the best but the kind of people who spout this negative vitriol have neither the talent nor time to write or produce movies.My advice actually watch the movie..
First of all, it should be said that the low rating on IMDb should be a straight up warning that you should take heed of before you sit down to watch "Seed".Personally, I have nothing against Uwe Boll or his skills as a director, but this movie was just downright bad.
This is by far the worst Boll film I've seen, worse even than BLOODRAYNE and ALONE IN THE DARK, because it manages to be completely offensive as well as execrable.The film begins with needless scenes of real-life animal torture provided by PETA.
Finally the film becomes a predictable, shot-in-the-dark slasher flick, with a random killer murdering endless cops and innocent victims.Later on, there's a stand-out scene of Seed beating in a woman's head in a kitchen which lasts for around five minutes.
And this is not Boll bashing (watch Tunnel Rats or Darfur is supposed to be good to), it's just that this movie does look what the budget was like.
I think it's disgusting.OK I mentioned it wasn't the worse horror film but the thing that annoyed me the most is that the director loves animals and he decided to throw real animal killing scenes in the film just to rely on shock value and content.
I am probably paraphrasing on what they said but seriously It was like the writer knew the film was bad so they decided to add an ironically hilarious scene.The movie deserves some credit because it isn't all bad but with the movie being not scary at all but just annoyingly gory and in a boring way like when the killer spends 5 minutes to beat on some woman's head.
This movie tries to shock the viewer, and it sure does.With the animal snuff at the beginning, and the killing of babies in the movie (fake at least)its was enough to make myself turn it off.I've seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage (BTK movie) and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie.We watch gore and horror because we know its just make-up, and special effects, so we shouldn't sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals, its not what we rented the movie for.If anything, there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won;t be surprised by it.
The most informal thing about the plot was the fake "State Law" that tries to explain itself in the beginning.This movie was directed by universally hated director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead, Postal) who has ended up on everyone's most hated directors list.
The reason why I give this movie a 8/10, is because it made perfect sense, it looks like any kind of slasher movie I've seen, when I first watched it, it seemed pretty disturbing and scary, this movie has a good script, good acting, good storyline, and good ending, I heard a lot of people said this movie will make you throw up, but I didn't, and I know, because I'm use too these kind of films.
Uwe Boll is a good director, his films are pretty good, In the Name of the King, House of the dead, Alone in the dark, and Seed, and they were excellent to watch, In the Name of the King: 8/10, House of the Dead: 8/10, and Seed: 8/10, and I also found out what Seed (The Killer's Name) want, he wanted revenge of killing of people that try to kill him.
Uwe Boll knows how to make an excellent horror movie, and he knows how to pick some good actors, and actresses in his films..
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.
The hammer scene was probably the most gruesome thing I have ever seen in a horror film.I know the Uwe Boll haters will find something to tear up in this film, but it really was worthwhile in the video nastie sense..
I say there is a skill in having the balls to make a film that no one can possibly enjoy & still have people watch it thru to the end.There is another murder scene that involves a woman tied to a chair in her kitchen & Seed slowly, Calculatingly, almost curiously bludgeoning her to death with a claw hammer.
Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Pare) is the character who becomes most intimate with the killer and leads the investigation, but he's only given a couple of short scenes in a 90 minute movie to develop, and ultimately he makes no real choices that affect the outcome of the story until the very end, and even then the focus is more on the actions of Maxwell Seed than truly on resolving any character development.
this director uwe boll, and his group of people used to make this movie should think it over before making another one similar to this one.
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ENJOY WATCHING ANIMALS BEATIN TO DEATH, LETTING ROT, WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS WELL AND A FIVE MINUTE SCENE OF SOMEONE GETTING THERE HEAD SMASHED IN WITH A HAMMER then you will enjoy this movie, if not, and you like horror, go with a higher budget film, like saw for example.
I myself, as I have stated in previous Uwe Boll reviews, only watch his films in the hope that one day he will actually make something good.
I understand the concept that Seed (the killer) is a sicko and enjoys watching such stuff.....but can't understand why Mr Boll thought putting REAL footage in the film would work.
However, just when I thought I knew what I was getting into, Uwe Boll's film turned me around and suckerpunched me.This film wasn't filled with gore (like most of today's "torture-porn" subgenre) apart from the hammer scene, which actually detracted from my viewing experience because the CGI effects weren't particularly well-done.
Uwe Boll's films are no worse made than half the crap the Hollywood elites crank out, so seriously, get over the Boll hate.This movie had me screaming and crying with the opening scenes.As an animal rights advocate, I've seen footage of stuff like that before and wasn't able to eat (vegetarian by the way...) for days.I'll probably not eat or sleep tonight.
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.
Perhaps this is the strength of Uwe Boll, although not a particular good talent to have.The movie opens with the killer (Seed), watching PETA footage of animals getting skinned and tortured.