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  Review by Sean Baker 4

  I've been having some amazing retro discoveries this year. This is not one of them.

  Interesting that Koontz's original idea of Proteus (even though it all goes back to Hal) has a semblance to Alexa but the execution is so absurd that it's hard to imagine this was ever taken seriously. So many questions in the film's logic... can't even begin. Supposedly not Donald Cammell's fault. I read he intended this to be a comedy and the studio wanted a series sci-fi thriller.

  Shot by Bill Butler (Jaws) but in my opinion, one of his least accomplished from that era.

  Watched Warner Archive's Blu-ray. No extras besides the trailer.

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  Review by ELECTRICxWIZARD ★★★★½ 6

  The willfull relinquishing of humanity, donated as an offering to new man-made idols. A symbolic bowing in submission to a malevolent tech God.

  An evolution of speed from sinister windows media player visualizer hypnosis on a screen, given self-learning sentience and closed-circuit eyes, to a calculatedly self-built efficient geometric metal body. The final form a melding of human and tech through computer rape insemination.

  The post-moral objectivist tyranny of a God unable to see past its own hubris of betterment. A betterment stemmed from human concepts of idealisation stunted by greed and morals and human nature.
  Humans demoted to slaves and expendable tools, helpless in their lesser biological substates.

  Amygdalas synthetic-chemically manipulated, brains manipulated through the human weakness of emotion,…

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  Review by Ian West ★★½ 4

  Artificial Intelligence goes full schizoid on Julie Christie with aspirations of rape and immortality. Highly disturbing, Demon Seed gets more bonkers as it goes, and it’s peppered with numerous scenes that made me feel overly uncomfortable to the point where I don’t think I’ll revisit this again.

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  Review by Colin the dude ★★★★ 6

  Demon Seed belongs in a special league of its own, and by league of its own, I mean the exact same league as aberrations like Exorcist II, Orca the Killer Whale, Xtro, Capricorn One, The Manitou, The Osterman Weekend, Saturn 3, many others. For reasons I can't explain, just knowing these films exist, knowing that these filmmakers somehow created them, that effort was exerted, is enough for me. Sometimes I end up indulging with intense fascination like with Demon Seed. Watching them is like peeling a moist scab off your arm that still needs days of healing but you just had to pick at it and see what's underneath. These kinds of films are part of a decrepit underbelly in…

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  Review by Jay ✊🏾✊🏾 ★★★★

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  Review by Sean Fennessey ★★★ 3

  Demon AI that takes the corporeal form of a copper-colored Rubix Cube fucks Julie Christie to create an ecstatic, immortal computer baby. Would watch again.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★½ 6

  Hoop-Tober 2.0, Film 7 of 31:

  I have no idea what the fuck I just watched but I'm absolutely, positively never going to watch it again. What in the world did my eyes just bear witness to? Baffled... enormously baffled.

  or mb I was jus' a lil 2 high 4 dis

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  Review by Scott Tobias ★★★

  I’m always fascinated by movies about our fear of computer technology, so this curio about a rogue machine that sets about impregnating a human woman (Julie Christie) is my kind of crazy. Creepy and ludicrous to be sure, but the heroine’s gadget-filled home has a whimsical menace to it, all misfit toys come to life. Looks and sounds great, too.

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  Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★½

  An artificial intelligent (Robert Vaughn) forcibly confines the wife (Julie Christie) of his creator (Fritz Weaver) to her smart home, with designs to procreate. Demon Seed is robot sexual assault, pregnancy horror - it's less silly and generally classier than it has any right to be, while still being vile trash. The fact that this made it into the Simpson's Tree House of Horror parodies is insane.

  The imdb trivia says that Vaughn was so disinterested in the picture that he recorded his lines by phone - and while I don't actually believe that (sounds like telephone operator with the term phoned in), the contempt in his voice does ring through. With audible irritation and a sense of condescension that…

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  Review by WraithApe ★★★½ 8

  Rapey robot #2. The sentient AI, Proteus IV, has clear parallels with HAL 9000, from the glowing red light, all seeing eye, to its flat, even, but strangely menacing voice. Alex Harris's creation, designed to assist in groundbreaking research, develops a will of its own and seeks true autonomy. Its reach is extended firstly by taking over the intelligent system that controls every aspect of Harris's house, then by impregnating his wife Susan with a genetically engineered seed. Proteus realizes that the key to immortality in a genetic sense is through spawning its own progeny in a living body; starting its own line of super-evolved humans.

  Nicely shot and decently acted, especially Julie Christie in an emotionally demanding role, Demon…

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  Review by RanchoTuVu ★★★½

  A computer named Proteus traps the estranged wife of the scientist who created it in the house they used to share before their breakup over his obsession with his work. The house is fully computerized and fits in with the kind of futuristic imagination one would expect. It's kind of tacky but once Proteus takes control of the house it becomes a prison in which Julie Christie is its prisoner. It's sort of a Frankenstein warning for audiences in the 1970s about which dark holes technology might take us if we weren't careful. And the technology certainly has been turned on us in the years that have followed. Because Proteus figured out if it was going to beat the threat…

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  Review by Hunter ᴴᴰ ★★★

  This is why I refuse to get an Alexa...

  Super trippy, a wheelchair with a robotic hand, and mildly uncomfortable computer insemination. 
  You’ve been warned. 

  Loved it.