Demon Seed
1977 Directed by Donald Cammell
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A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
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a scenery chewing julie christie is trapped in a house by an evil, sentient robot, then raped. the electronic music influenced soundtrack, by legendary composer fielding, is effectively creepy and has a stereophonic bombast that transcends the brutality on screen. this may be a movie that's filled with goofy (to today's standards) tech, but it certainly has a dark mistrust of it. the computer rendered graphics were revolutionary at the time, by today's standard it looks more like a boring screensaver. the story, however, remains somewhat fresh in concept; with the direction the home automation business has proceeded, it could be ripe for an update or sequel.
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Woman gets kidnapped and raped by a computer that has less memory than a watch and gives birth to a Kinder Egg type child thing.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Have been wanting to see this on the big screen for years, but finally caved and watched a DVD. For that I am sorry. This is Donald Cammell's first solo directorial effort, seven years after Performance. And it's basically the same film, except the early allusions towards the gangster genre are now converted to science fiction. Two beings come together in a plush, sealed-off town house. They slowly converge, first mentally, then physically. The dominant party is eventually subsumed by its pray. Though Proteus' red-eyed peepers and eerie consolatory and insistent vocal tone make 2001 the obvious point of reference, the film is perhaps richer and more perceptive as a Bergamnesque battle-of-the-sexes stand-off. Expunge all the techno bunf from the…
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Quite good, for a film about a house that rapes someone.
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so i have never seen this one before and i knew almost nothing going in. for all i knew it was yet another 70s house movie riffing off Exorcist. oh man was i in for it. evil supercomputer gets super smart and traps the creator's wife in a house to make a baby with her. for real. really disturbing, pretty classy and the ending will make you fall off the couch. again, why aren't people talking about this movie every day?
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A strong and disturbing idea, poorly realised and lacking pace.
But as far as 'killer self aware computers who want to rape women and become fathers' go...well...it's prob the best I've seen
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One of those "Pervy computer wants a baby, imprisons woman in her hi-tech house and gets all rapey" movies.
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The world's first organic supercomputer goes rogue and imprisons its creator's wife in an automated house with the wish to conceive a child. Interesting concept that ends up shortened within the plot. I wish they would have gone beyond some aspects of it, however the film does raises some interesting questions. The production design was amazing and Julie Christie looks delicious in that bathrobe.