TeenzTen An action-packed slog

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

TdSmth5 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.

lay-marin9 It pains me to even allow this film 1 star! OH MY GOD it was a horrific waste of my life to insert the DVD and painfully watch the ridiculous excuse for Uwe Boll to see just how gory he could get on this one..Because he definitely didn't bother putting any thought into how this film would look to the viewer once completed..it is by far the stupidest attempt at a horror movie I have ever seen..you don't grow to love the characters or even like them..because pretty much you don't get to know even one of them, after some painful to watch (real life animal abuse) which is disturbing to think that it was even allowed on film, and I swear to god it seems like it lasts forever, we then get to see just how unintellectual the story writing is, the boredom, the waiting for something, anything to happen, the unrealistic idea that any human being no matter how (by the book) of an employee they are would ever allow someone that deranged to live after failed attempts at trying to kill him the "legal" way..we go into just a plethora of unimaginable and inhuman ways to kill someone..the gore..why? It was obvious he just wanted to try and top any gory horror film out there..it might have been acceptable if the story had an ounce of reasoning to it or even a believable plot..after seeing this I put it in the ranks of Cabin Fever 2, a waste of perfectly good movie watching time..Do yourself a favor and leave this one on the shelf and hopefully everyone will forget that Mr. Boll attempted to make a film in the first place. YUCK!

sbrazie 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.

snakes3992 The reason why I give this movie a 8/10, is because it made perfect sense, it looks like any kind of slasher movie I've seen, when I first watched it, it seemed pretty disturbing and scary, this movie has a good script, good acting, good storyline, and good ending, I heard a lot of people said this movie will make you throw up, but I didn't, and I know, because I'm use too these kind of films. Uwe Boll is a good director, his films are pretty good, In the Name of the King, House of the dead, Alone in the dark, and Seed, and they were excellent to watch, In the Name of the King: 8/10, House of the Dead: 8/10, and Seed: 8/10, and I also found out what Seed (The Killer's Name) want, he wanted revenge of killing of people that try to kill him. Uwe Boll knows how to make an excellent horror movie, and he knows how to pick some good actors, and actresses in his films.