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Uwe Boll (written by)
Release Date:
22 November 2007 (Germany) more
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After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win more
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(22 articles)
31 Days of Horror: Seed
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 9 October 2009, 10:32 AM, PDT)
Opening Case 39
(From Fangoria. 5 October 2009, 9:19 AM, PDT)
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Shockingly Pointless more (53 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael Paré | ... | Detective Matt Bishop | |
| Will Sanderson | ... | Max Seed | |
| Ralf Moeller | ... | Warden Arnold Calgrove | |
| Jodelle Ferland | ... | Emily Bishop | |
| Andrew Jackson | ... | Dr. Parker Wickson | |
| Thea Gill | ... | Sandra Bishop | |
| Brad Turner | ... | Larry Thompson | |
| Phillip Mitchell | ... | Simpson | |
| Mike Dopud | ... | Flynn | |
| John Sampson | ... | Officer D. Ward | |
| Tyron Leitso | ... | Jeffrey | |
| Michael Eklund | ... | Executioner | |
| John Hainsworth | ... | Witness | |
| Vincent Walker | ... | Inmate #1 (as Vince Walker) | |
| William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart | ... | Inmate #2 (as William 'BIGSLEEPS' Stewart) |
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90 min
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Australia:R | UK:18 | Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:NC-16
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The movie Matt and Emily Bishop are watching is BloodRayne (2005). more
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Factual errors: The press announcement for this movie claimed the story is based on true events. However, the notion that a convict who survives three jolts from the electric chair is automatically pardoned and set free is an urban legend. There is no such law. more
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I want you to find him, I want you to KILL him, and I want you to put him in the ground so he can never come back again.
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Over the past year, Uwe Boll has shown marginal improvement as a filmmaker, cranking out the competent "In the Name of the King" (a "Lord of the Rings" clone) and the proudly vulgar, post-9/11 satire "Postal." But then came "Seed," and the counter was reset to Zero, keeping his bid for legitimacy and respect that much further out of reach. And I'm a fan of the guyhis films exhibit a uniquely screwball vision, and are never dull.
Spawned from his frustration over the savage notices his early films received, "Seed" is a colossally misguided attempt at social commentary, and an even worse jab at creating an iconic slasher mythology (Boll often seems to be taking a page from Rob Zombie's successful reboot of "Halloween"). The antagonist is Maxwell Seed (Will Sanderson), a mute, hulking brute who's slain 666 people and sits on death row, awaiting execution; after unsuccessfully frying the beast, he rises from the grave to seek revenge on those who put him there...and so begins a string of wholly gratuitous mayhem.
Trying to create a new-millennium slasher in the vein of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees, Max Seed is too nondescript and boring to leave an impression, ultimately resembling a washed-up pro wrestler doing "The Toolbox Murders" on a succession of equally boring victims. Furthermore, Seed's character and Boll's "message" run contrary to one another: the death penalty is wrong, sure, but are we really expected to sympathize with a soulless killer who's left a couple hundred corpses in his wake? 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. By the time he and a bunch of cardboard cops storm Seed's hideout, the sequence is so drawn-out, ill-conceived (the lighting is almost non-existent), and unexciting (despite a healthy dose of gore) that it almost put me to sleep.
The shoddy film-making isn't limited to just that sequence: "Seed" appears to have been shot by a drunken cinematographer, since the camera bobs and weaves endlessly, a technique that's more stomach-turning than the gore itself; these protracted takes of very little happening only draw attention to the meandering, almost non-existent narrative. At 90 minutes, the film is distended enough to be considered a form of torture, which might have been Boll's intent all along.
Pure genius...I guess the joke's on me.