Demon Seed
(1977)
Overview
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Director
Donald Cammell
Writers
Dean R. Koontz, Roger O. Hirson, Robert Jaffe
Top Billed
Julie Christie
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talisencrw
⭐ 8/10July 21, 2016
I had only known of the eccentric, ill-fated director 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 adm…
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Wuchak
⭐ 6/10November 27, 2020
_**If HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey” were grounded in Los Angeles**_
Married to a computer scientist (Fritz Weaver), a child psychologist (Julie Christie) finds her home invaded by an autonomous supercomputer named Proteus IV, created by her husband at his futuristic lab in Thousand Oaks. What does it want?
"Demon Seed" (1977) is a techno-thriller that mixes “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) with “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), "Colossus: The Forb…
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Original Language
EN
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