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2012 · horror · supernatural

Devil Seed

Directed by Greg A. Sager1h 33m2012
ElsewhereIMDb4.12k
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Alexandra is a lively college student returning to live with her roommates Jessica and Breanne after the summer holidays. After a night of drinking, Alex agrees to a psychic reading to learn about her future with her boyfriend, Brian, but during the reading a dramatic turn of events causes SOMETHING to go drastically wrong. When Alex awakes the next day, she cant remember the events of the night before. She begins to hear creepy noises, hallucinate, black out and receive unidentifiable scratch marks all over her body. Afraid shes going crazy, she seeks help from her friends but Jessica, Breanne and Brian are incapable of comprehending the scope of the darkness descending UPON her. Instead, Alex receives help from a school professor and his father who have dealt with the supernatural before. But as Alexs condition worsens, it becomes apparent that it may already be too late to stop the entity from using Alexs body as a gateway into our world.

Our read · Devil Seed (2012) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want low-budget demonic possession horror with psychic readings and flashing effects.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 7attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou avoid explicit sex, strobing lights or possession possession tropes.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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