Seeds (1968)

Director:

Andy Milligan

Writers:

John Borske (writer)
Andy Milligan (writer)

Release Date:

December 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Tagline:

Sowed in incest! Harvested in hate!

Plot:

An alcoholic matriarch terrorizes her spoiled, grown-up children during a family get-together where one of them flips out and begins killing all of them to get back at years of neglect and abuse.

Plot Keywords:

Dysfunctional Family | Exploitation | Female Nudity | Low Budget Film | Murder

Cast

Maggie Rogers	...	Claris Manning
Candy Hammond	...	Carol
Anthony Moscini	...	Michael (as Robert Service)
Lucy Silvay	...	Margaret (as Helena Velos)
Neil Flanagan	...	Father Mathew
Gene Connolly	...	Buster
David Hazard	...	Drew
Jonathan East	...	Peter
Patricia Dillon	...	Jessica (as Pauline Ramsey)
Paul Eden	...	Dr. Kram
Jesse Bigelow	...	Mortimer
Lisa Hart	...	Barbara
Eileen Hayes	...	Susan
Jerry Cortez	...	Jonathan
Rita Benning	...	Miss Bundy

Also Known As:

Seeds of Sin (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

84 min | 78 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Aquarius Productions

Trivia:

In 1995, Something Weird Video located a soundtrack for this film, which up to this time was "lost."

Movie Connections:

Edited into Twisted Sex Vol. 17 (1998) (V)

Fast forward button is a must

This is another cheapo by Andy Milligan, but it is actually a fair story about a highly dysfunctional family.

It was certainly made for the Grindhouse circuit, as the actual story has sex scenes inserted instead of commercials.

Don't get me wrong, this is high class acting, but it certainly was better than The Ghastly Ones in that regard. The stay-with-mom daughter invites all of her siblings home for the holidays. This causes mom to go ballistic, as she hates all of them. It's not enough to cause the old biddy to have a heart attack, so she is there throughout the film yelling and screaming at her children.

They certainly are the weirdest bunch I have ever scene - one is 17 and gets kicked out of every school mom sends him two; one married a woman who lied about a pregnancy to get out of the house, and away from his sister, who was having regular sex with him; one just wanted love and married the first man who would have rough sex with her - a real happy family.

But someone is killing them off, one by one, in between the almost hard core sex scenes.

Yes, I actually fast forwarded through the sex to get the story. It wasn't bad if you can stand the 16mm camera-work and the horrid music played during the sex. I fast forwarded just so I would have to listen to it.