Overrated and overhyped

A Disappointing Continuation

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The average horror viewer should stay away from Seed. This is one of those low budget movies that has a stupid plot, bad acting and looks and feels cheap all the way through. The only thing that it does well is taking your money and placing it firmly into the pocket of a greedy little man named Uwe Boll. The movie would have scored a 1 out of 10 by the looks of out alone...With that said, the movie does have a little shock value, and an important part of it is borrowed from real life. Boll definitely crosses the line with putting PETA material in here without warning the viewer properly. I would have liked to know that I had to cringe over lengthy REAL LIFE SNUFF FOOTAGE of animals being tortured and killed before a minute had passed. The movie lingers on it and savors every moment. If you dislike watching animal abuse, then I would seriously advise you to stay away from this movie. These clips would be okay – in my book – only if the dear Mr. Boll actually tried to make some form of social comment about it. And even then I wouldn't have been able to watch it. Those clips was from real life, guys... Horror movies are watched for entertainment, and no movie should attempt to feature real life animal abuse as a source of it. I want fiction, not real life snuff! And this comes from a guy that actually liked A Serbian Film. Well, enough about that.The poor taste of Mr. Boll actually had little to do with the grade I give this amateur piece of excrement! If I wanted animal snuff I would go to the butcher! If I wanted a good or scary movie I would stay away from Uwe Boll.

In the 70s, Max Seed a brutal serial killer is scheduled for execution by electric chair. According to the law, if someone survives three 45 second jolts of electricity, he's freed. The guy in charge of the machine isn't thrilled because the machine is defective/somewhat inefficient.Seed is a big guy, silent, and with his face covered. We learn that as a child he survived a fire that killed his parents and deformed his face and from there he went on a rampage to torture and kill anything and anyone. One bizarre method apparently was to leave people in a dungeon and let them rot and film it all.When it's Seed's turn on the chair he survives two attempts at execution. He's bloody but still has vital signs. The warden not wanting to risk freeing this guy orders the dr. to declare him dead and they bury Seed alive. He recovers eventually and digs himself out of the grave. And starts going after all these people that put him there, cops, the warden, the dr. and finally the detective who caught him and his family.Seed is Uwe Boll's most accomplished work, from the ones I've seen. It looks very good but dark, very crisp, and they have all the 70s details covered. Acting is good, too. On the whole the story is very good as well. But there are some issues of course and as expected. We get to see how the cops catch Seed in his house, in the rain, at night. That scene should be exciting and scary, but it's not well filmed- too dark, too much gimmick with the lights, too long. In the process Seed manages to violently kill a bunch of cops. And this is one brutal and gory horror movie. Boll manages to film one of the most striking death scenes I've seen in a long time. It's a 4 minute scene of Seed walking around a bound woman with a hammer banging her head with it. At first "gently" and increasingly harder. He takes his time and eventually breaks her skull and keeps slamming it. Remarkable stuff. This is the only scene where the camera is still and at rest, Seed is filming this and has placed the camera on a table. For the entire movie the shoulder-held camera is moving, not shaking but like on a wave.Unfortunately, this movie starts from the first second with some real life brutal animal torture footage provided by PETA, for no good reason whatsoever. Sometimes I wonder about the minds of the PETA people about about Boll's. It's awful stuff that you'll want to skip over. It almost made me not want to see the rest of the movie.Seed lacks a central character to empathize with. It's unsure who the main character is. Is it Seed? Is it the detective? The ending was unusual and neat. Seed is a unique brutal horror movie and an accomplishment for Boll- just don't watch the first few minutes.

what a waste of time! i do like horrors but this one is just no good. only thing thats OK is the suspense sounds and music...special effects and sounds when body parts brake is OK. The movie is also way to dark, and it's the wrong sort of violence! there is no story telling! even a 2.8 is to much for this! PLEASE, do not make any more of these! Hopefully the votes are enough to keep people from making this! Was there any type casting involved btw? Hope not..If u need some pointers, just let me know.. Or watch some European movies first. Like 'rec'for instance..thanks for trying

If there is one thing I cannot take, it is anyone who gives an opinion, review, etc. of something that involves "insulting" those of a different opinion. Take Author: zarakian_58 from United Kingdom's Review: "badly directed garbage. a mediocre nihilist sadistic gorefest ... if you are the sort of person who likes that ... see a shrink". So, I LOVED this movie, hence perhaps I should skip the shrink and move into the asylum. Stay off the review pages unless you can review objectively AND subjectively without insulting those of a different ilk.Back to the movie. While this is a horror movie, without a doubt, it is also a crime thriller involving the search for the serial killer, "Seed", the search led by the detective Matt Bishop played by the under-rated Michael Pare'. He is caught early in the movie, but after surviving two attempts in the electric chair, he is buried alive to avoid a third attempt that if survived would give him his freedom. He escapes the grave, begins a new killing rampage, exacts revenge on the prison employees who oversaw his "death" and burial, and the investigation for the "copycat killer" begins.This film is brutal, but Seed himself is no worse than a Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate his victims. Seed tortures and kills his victims over and over. These scenes are some of the goriest and most shocking I have ever seen.This is everything a horror film should be: Horrifying, shocking, scary, terrible antagonist, sympathetic protagonist, and with great special effects thrown in. Solid acting and plot for a low budget effort (Don't forget-classics like Halloween and Night of the Living Dead were also extremely low budget). Eight Stars-One of the best torture horror films I have seen in a while.Back to Michael Pare': I have always thought that Michael Pare' has never gotten the respect he deserved. Watch "Eddie and the Cruisers", "The Philadelphia Experiment" or even "Streets of Fire" (Not a good film, but great performances by a young Willem Dafoe and Diane Lane). While earlier in his career, he shows emotion, drama ability, can handle action scenes, and just has overall screen presence. Somehow he has gotten stuck in smaller supporting roles and in B movies. Another example of his B movie prowess, Pare is excellent as the detective hunting for the serial killer in this film.One last note: I recommend skipping the first few minutes of this film which show real footage of animal torture taken from PETA. While this footage helps the Director, Boll, to get his point on "human nature" across along with the rest of the film, I find it unbearable to watch.