Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Claudio Carvalho Dr. Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) has developed a computer called Proteus IV with organic artificial intelligence and lives with his estranged wife Susan (Julie Christie) in a fully automated house administrated by the computer Alfred. When Alex decides to separate from Susan to work harder In Proteus IV, the computer asks for an open terminal to study the human behavior to increase his knowledge. Alex refuses to give a terminal to Proteus IV, but he forgets that there is one at his home. Proteus IV uses the terminal to take over Alfred and trap Susan at home. He also decides to have a son with the wife of his creator to become immortal. Forty years after its release, "Demon Seed" is a dated, but still fascinating sci-fi horror film. In the 60's and 70's, Julie Christie was sort of muse with magnificent cinematography including "Dr. Jivago", "Fahrenheit 451", "Don't Look Now" and has another wonderful performance. "Demon Seed" shows a scary view of artificial intelligence and has a great open conclusion. The character Walter Gabler is forgotten in the story. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Geração Proteus" ("Proteus Generation")

a_chinn Sci-fi/horror film about an automated house that becomes obsessed with and controlling the house matron, Julie Christie, is more timely than ever with the rise of more and more "Smart Home" products coming online. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not at all fearful that my Echo Dot is going to hold my wife hostage, but this film certainly does pose interesting questions of how much we are allowing technology to insinuate itself into our daily lives. Dramatically, the film is flawed, with a some gaping plot holes, a not always believable performance by Christie, and some very dated futuristic special effects. However, "Demon Seed" works both as an entertaining thriller, but more importantly works on an intellectual level, posing many prescient questions, which is why this film has endured. "Demon Seed" is one of only a handful of films directed by Donald Cammell (the others were the brilliant "Performance" that he co-directed with Nicolas Roeg, the suspenseful thriller "White of the Eye," and one other film that was re-cut by producers that he took his name off of, along with some U2 music videos). Definitely worth watching for fans of 1970s science fiction or fans of Julie Christie. Even if it's not her best performance, it's basically a one-woman- show.

talisencrw I had only known of the eccentric, ill-fated director Donald Cammell by going through Kenneth Anger's provocative short films collections and seeing Cammell act, early in his career, in Anger's 'Lucifer Rising'. Here, Julie Christie was both gorgeous and eerily convincing in a bizarre hybrid of 'Rosemary's Baby' with sci-fi elements reminiscent of 'Colossus: The Forbin Project'.The unique atmosphere and directorial integrity alone are worth the price of admission here. Well worth both purchasing and re-watching for the cinematically adventurous connoisseurs out there. It's a crying shame that Cammell chose to end his life, and didn't make more works that pushed the boundaries of contemporary American cinema.

Leofwine_draca A bizarre film, an early adaptation of a Dean Koontz tale, which successfully combines the two sci-fi and horror genres to create an unsettling, sometimes disturbing and sometimes very dated tale of (wo)man against machine. While it's quite a slow paced tale which mainly takes place in a single location, DEMON SEED has plenty of unpleasant moments which are sure to appeal to the horror fan. Not least of these is Proteus itself, a sadistic, incredibly clever computer system out to further itself by fathering a child with Christie. Voiced by an uncredited Robert Vaughn, Proteus is a worthy successor to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY's HAL 9000, a truly frightening computer creation.Julie Christie takes the lead role of Mrs. Harris, an unsuspecting wife caught up in a diabolical plan of impregnation (yes, you heard that right). Christie is a good actress, but I hated her character in this film. She spends far too much time snivelling and not enough time making her own decisions. I mean I'm sure in reality she could have escaped from her prison house - why not just block all of the camera lenses so that Proteus can't see her? She doesn't really make that much of an effort to escape and you get the feeling that she deserves what happens to her.The film starts off well, based in reality, working up some scenes of foreboding as we watch the sinister cameras themselves watching every move of the human participants silently. As time passes, the film becomes more incredible, as Proteus does some unpleasant-looking experimentation on Christie and a giant gold unfolding cube appears in the basement to chop off an interfering victim's head. The film experiments with some pretty but dated computer graphics and gets a bit too arty for its own good in the second half. The film has a hair-raising ending which reminded me of the INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS remake.Fritz Weaver plays the fussy scientist husband who was responsible for creating the computer system in the first place. I like the ending where he storms into the house to destroy the computer, making Christie look like a total prat for putting up with it so long. Cult icon Gerrit Graham also makes an appearance as an unfortunate computer geek who comes a cropper as a result of attempting to stop Proteus. While not a great film - spoiled somewhat by being very dated as a result of the period in which it was made - DEMON SEED has an original idea behind it, which counts for something, and actually manages to be scary unlike many subsequent "computer horrors" like SATURN 3 for example.