Seed (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Uwe Boll |
| Produced by | Shawn Williamson |
| Written by | Uwe Boll |
| Starring | Will Sanderson Mike Dopud Andrew Jackson Michael Paré Ralf Möller Don S. Davis |
| Music by | Jessica de Rooij |
| Cinematography | Matthias Neumann |
| Editing by | Mike Dopud (?) |
| Distributed by | Vivendi Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | November 22, 2007 (GER) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English language |
| Budget | US$10 million |
Seed is a horror film written and directed by Uwe Boll.[1] The film stars Will Sanderson, Mike Dopud, Andrew Jackson, Ralf Möller, Don S. Davis, and Michael Paré. Filming ran from July 17 to August 11, 2006 in British Columbia, Canada, on a $10 million budget.
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[edit] Plot
Max Seed (Will Sanderson), a man responsible for the deaths of 666 people over a 6 year period, 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, who is soon sentenced to death by electric chair.
A state law says that a convicted criminal who survives three jolts of 15,000 volts each for 45 seconds is legally permitted to go free. After the second shock fails to kill Max Seed, the Warden Arnold Calgrove (Ralf Möller) and Dr. Parker Wickson (Andrew Jackson) decide to declare Seed dead rather than risk his escape. Seed is then buried alive and forgotten. But Seed soon returns from the grave and begins a brutal vengeance tour through all those that wronged him.
Soon, Max Seed searches for anyone involved in the order of his death and begins killing everyone while videotaping it, for his own twisted amusement. The first to be killed is every officer and security guard on the Island including Warden Arnold Calgrove, and Dr. Parker Wickson. Once the island is completely populated with dead bodies, Seed then moves on to find Bishop, and enters the water.
Leaving Bishop for last, Seed wants to make things personal, so he sends a videotape of himself walking towards Bishops house, and mailing the video to Bishop at the police station. Enraged, Bishop arrives home only to find dismembered bodies in his bathtub, only to realize they were the security guards ordered to watch his house. The only place Seed can be found, is at his twisted home that Bishop found him originally.
After searching for Seed, Bishop ends up in a basement room, that was used in the previous killings of the other victims. With only a TV monitor and his gun, Bishop witnesses his wife and daughter tied up on the screen. In order for their freedom, Seed declares Bishop to commit suicide by shooting himself in his own head. When Bishop refuses, Seed removed a heavy duty nailer and shoots Bishop's wife in the head, killing her instantly. When Seed next goes to shoot Bishop's 10-year-old daughter (Jodelle Ferland), Bishop with great effort, accepts defeat and shoots himself in the head and dies almost instantly. Seeing that Bishop kept his word to kill himself, Seed then takes Bishop's daughter to his cell in the basement and leaves her there with the dead body of her father. The screen goes black, and the movie draws end.
[edit] Cast
- Will Sanderson as Max Seed
- Mike Dopud as Flynn Dowers
- Andrew Jackson as Dr. Parker Wickson
- Ralf Möller as Warden Wright
- Michael Paré as Detective Matt Bishop
- Jodelle Ferland as Detective Bishop's daughter
- Michael Eklund as Jeff "The Executioner"
- Brett Boyce as Young Seed
- Don S. Davis as Lieutenant Davis
- Thea Gill as Detective Bishop's wife
- Tyron Leitso as Dr. Tyron McBackster
- Phillip Mitchell as Detective Simpson
- John Sampson as Officer D. Ward
- Brad Turner as Larry Thompson
- William Veroni as Baby Flynn
[edit] Production
The film was shown on the Weekend of Fear festival in Erlangen, Germany on April 27, 2007. Director Uwe Boll was there to present the film and also to answer questions. Before the film started Boll emphasized the brutality of the film. Furthermore he pointed out that PETA made archival recordings of animal cruelty available for the use in Seed's introduction, though this footage was obscured on-screen. Boll stated that this alteration had occurred in the processing laboratory without his knowledge.
This clip remains in the final release of the movie.[clarification needed]
[edit] Awards
- Best Special Effects – 2007 New York City Horror Film Festival
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Brown, "Exclusive Interview: Director Uwe Boll Plants a 'SEED' and can take a Punch – Part Two," iFMagazine.com (10/9/2008).
[edit] External links
- Seed
- Seed at AllRovi
- Seed at the Internet Movie Database
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