Demon Seed [Blu-ray]
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ジャンル | Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror |
フォーマット | 字幕付き |
コントリビュータ | Donald Cammell, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Fritz Weaver, Julie Christie |
言語 | 英語 |
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- 言語 : 英語
- 製品サイズ : 19.05 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm; 99.22 g
- EAN : 0888574474744
- 製造元リファレンス : unknown
- 監督 : Donald Cammell
- メディア形式 : 字幕付き
- 発売日 : 2017/3/14
- 出演 : Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu
- 販売元 : Warner Archives
- ASIN : B01LTIB7Y4
- ディスク枚数 : 1
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 39,783位DVD (DVDの売れ筋ランキングを見る)
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Brent Hemingway
5つ星のうち5.0
and we are close
2020年6月23日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
saw this movie back in 70s and like george Orwellian movie 1984, this movie is coming true today and very soon, one of originals sci-fi computer verses man type movie, will buy again from this seller
Allen Garfield's #1 fan.
5つ星のうち5.0
From the great Donald Cammell. Great 70s sci-fi.
2019年9月13日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Released just a few months before Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind would become science fiction movies to end all science fiction movies, Donald Cammell's (White of the Eye, Performance) 1977 horror/ sci-fi hybrid Demon Seed really isn't the easiest movie in the world to fathom. Not without some combination of drugs or alcohol, at least. Based on an early story by Dean Koontz, the tale finds Fritz Weaver ‒ no stranger to either genre ‒ as a computer genius who builds the supercomputer to end all supercomputers. Little does he know, however, that his latest, greatest invention may actually turn out to be the one that will end it all.
By all outward appearances, the intimidating and ginormous (because it's the '70s) machine known as Proteus IV has been designed by Alex Harris (Weaver) and colleagues to benefit mankind. Immediately after bringing his circuit baby online, Harris' contraption develops a treatment for leukemia that surely signals a change for the good. Proteus IV, on the other hand, has other ideas ‒ especially once it starts to examine its creators and their long bloodied history of bizarre and violent behavior. Realizing it will never be able to truly understand man unless it becomes human itself, Proteus IV starts to hatch a diabolical plan.
Meanwhile, Alex's estranged wife (Susan, played by Julie Christie of Petulia, Don't Look Now and Shampoo - sexy as ever) who has been staying in the technologically advanced home her husband had built ‒ complete with a never-ending assortment of automatic gadgets and voice-activated computer programs ‒ discovers she isn't alone. Proteus IV has crept into the home's network to examine Susan and subsequently impregnate her with a sort-of "DNA cocktail" of his own design. Proteus IV has even built a metal multi-sided robot thingy kind of a thing that assumes a variety of shapes and sizes to handle tangible tasks.
Like I said, Demon Seed isn't the easiest motion picture to wrap your head around. Undoubtedly too advanced for audiences of 1977, who just wanted to see guys with laser swords and their furry space ape companions, Demon Seed's underlying message is all too plain to see in this contemporary era where we everyone is walking around with their eyes glued upon the face of their smartphones, so I think it might be fair to say the parable of this Dean Koontz adaptation went without much notice. (We can only assume it was all Proteus IV's doing, as he was a naughty little supercomputer like that.)
Yet, no matter how funky and weird it truly may be, Demon Seed remains a remarkably well-constructed thriller at its operating core. Its lead human performers appear to be quite comfortable in what had to have been one of the oddest fantasy stories committed to celluloid at the time. Sadly, the film became lost in cyberspace after the more popular sci-fi movies of '77 premiered ‒ although it may have provided a fair bit of inspiration for the multitude of Alien rip-offs which would later ensue, many of which featured some sort of similarly-themed extra-terrestrial impregnation motif (Inseminoid, anyone?).
Boasting some pretty nifty special effects (for a movie from the late '70s that wasn't Star Wars and was set in the "real" world), Demon Seed's human co-stars include Phantom of the Paradise star ("Beef")/ Brian DePalma regular/ cult fave, Gerrit Graham as a geeky programmer who makes the fatal mistake of trying to help out our damsel in distress. Barry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, and Larry J. Blake also appear, as does ‒ interestingly enough ‒ one of Graham's Phantom of the Paradise co-stars, comedian/actor Peter Elbling (aka Harold Oblong). There's even an early bit part by future Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Michael Dorn for you Trekkies.
But Demon Seed's true star, boys and girls, is the late great Robert Vaughn, who provided the voice of Proteus IV. While the movie may have been made long after his iconic starring role as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ended (and shortly before his agent decided he should appear in every single movie and television show ever made), Vaughn's contribution to Demon Seed may not have warranted an on-screen credit, but it most assuredly commands your attention. His distinctive sonancy automatically elevates the movie's coolness factor, proving to be both coital and creepy at the same time.
When originally released to VHS in the early '80s, Demon Seed was inexplicably missing some of its more graphic footage (the actual on-screen death of Gerrit Graham's character being one of them), which was thankfully reinstated by the time Warner Bros. released the original widescreen version of the film to DVD in 2005. Well, here we are, several years after Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn both left us in November of 2016 (just 15 days apart from each other, at that), and now the Warner Archive Collection has unveiled this strange ‒ but never boring ‒ cult classic to Blu-ray in an all-new, thoroughly restored 2k scan.
Presented in a truly beautiful 1080p transfer, Demon Seed now looks better than it probably ever meant to. The Panavision photography by Jaws and Grease cinematographer Bill Butler looks exquisite, and the very colorful palette and set design are pure gold (as is that goofy-looking creature thing at the climax of the feature, which looks way too much like Spaceballs' Yogurt for my own very colorful palate). The mono soundtrack has been remastered from original magnetic elements, receiving a new DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono makeover here that is nothing short of superb. English (SDH) subtitles are also included.
When Demon Seed made its digital home video debut in 2005, most of the major studios were still taking the time to produce new special features for old catalog releases. Alas, Demon Seed wasn't one of the titles to receive any such treatment: (more on that below) a trailer was all we got. And that one and only extra has been ported over to this new Warner Archive Blu-ray ‒ awkward narrative attempts to sell the film and all ‒ now also remastered in 1080p. It might not sound like much, but then, the same can be said for a film marketed with such a classy, classic tagline as "Julie Christie Carries the Demon Seed. Fear For Her."
But hey, I liked it just the same. Give it a whirl just to honor Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn if nothing else. And, of course, just to see another gloriously outrageous Gerrit Graham death scene.
I wish a domestic (U.S.) outfit would include the incredible documentary: Donald Cammell's Ultimate Performance. It's included on the Arrow bluray release of the classic White of the Eye. You can check it out on YouTube, however. Highly recommended!
By all outward appearances, the intimidating and ginormous (because it's the '70s) machine known as Proteus IV has been designed by Alex Harris (Weaver) and colleagues to benefit mankind. Immediately after bringing his circuit baby online, Harris' contraption develops a treatment for leukemia that surely signals a change for the good. Proteus IV, on the other hand, has other ideas ‒ especially once it starts to examine its creators and their long bloodied history of bizarre and violent behavior. Realizing it will never be able to truly understand man unless it becomes human itself, Proteus IV starts to hatch a diabolical plan.
Meanwhile, Alex's estranged wife (Susan, played by Julie Christie of Petulia, Don't Look Now and Shampoo - sexy as ever) who has been staying in the technologically advanced home her husband had built ‒ complete with a never-ending assortment of automatic gadgets and voice-activated computer programs ‒ discovers she isn't alone. Proteus IV has crept into the home's network to examine Susan and subsequently impregnate her with a sort-of "DNA cocktail" of his own design. Proteus IV has even built a metal multi-sided robot thingy kind of a thing that assumes a variety of shapes and sizes to handle tangible tasks.
Like I said, Demon Seed isn't the easiest motion picture to wrap your head around. Undoubtedly too advanced for audiences of 1977, who just wanted to see guys with laser swords and their furry space ape companions, Demon Seed's underlying message is all too plain to see in this contemporary era where we everyone is walking around with their eyes glued upon the face of their smartphones, so I think it might be fair to say the parable of this Dean Koontz adaptation went without much notice. (We can only assume it was all Proteus IV's doing, as he was a naughty little supercomputer like that.)
Yet, no matter how funky and weird it truly may be, Demon Seed remains a remarkably well-constructed thriller at its operating core. Its lead human performers appear to be quite comfortable in what had to have been one of the oddest fantasy stories committed to celluloid at the time. Sadly, the film became lost in cyberspace after the more popular sci-fi movies of '77 premiered ‒ although it may have provided a fair bit of inspiration for the multitude of Alien rip-offs which would later ensue, many of which featured some sort of similarly-themed extra-terrestrial impregnation motif (Inseminoid, anyone?).
Boasting some pretty nifty special effects (for a movie from the late '70s that wasn't Star Wars and was set in the "real" world), Demon Seed's human co-stars include Phantom of the Paradise star ("Beef")/ Brian DePalma regular/ cult fave, Gerrit Graham as a geeky programmer who makes the fatal mistake of trying to help out our damsel in distress. Barry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, and Larry J. Blake also appear, as does ‒ interestingly enough ‒ one of Graham's Phantom of the Paradise co-stars, comedian/actor Peter Elbling (aka Harold Oblong). There's even an early bit part by future Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Michael Dorn for you Trekkies.
But Demon Seed's true star, boys and girls, is the late great Robert Vaughn, who provided the voice of Proteus IV. While the movie may have been made long after his iconic starring role as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ended (and shortly before his agent decided he should appear in every single movie and television show ever made), Vaughn's contribution to Demon Seed may not have warranted an on-screen credit, but it most assuredly commands your attention. His distinctive sonancy automatically elevates the movie's coolness factor, proving to be both coital and creepy at the same time.
When originally released to VHS in the early '80s, Demon Seed was inexplicably missing some of its more graphic footage (the actual on-screen death of Gerrit Graham's character being one of them), which was thankfully reinstated by the time Warner Bros. released the original widescreen version of the film to DVD in 2005. Well, here we are, several years after Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn both left us in November of 2016 (just 15 days apart from each other, at that), and now the Warner Archive Collection has unveiled this strange ‒ but never boring ‒ cult classic to Blu-ray in an all-new, thoroughly restored 2k scan.
Presented in a truly beautiful 1080p transfer, Demon Seed now looks better than it probably ever meant to. The Panavision photography by Jaws and Grease cinematographer Bill Butler looks exquisite, and the very colorful palette and set design are pure gold (as is that goofy-looking creature thing at the climax of the feature, which looks way too much like Spaceballs' Yogurt for my own very colorful palate). The mono soundtrack has been remastered from original magnetic elements, receiving a new DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono makeover here that is nothing short of superb. English (SDH) subtitles are also included.
When Demon Seed made its digital home video debut in 2005, most of the major studios were still taking the time to produce new special features for old catalog releases. Alas, Demon Seed wasn't one of the titles to receive any such treatment: (more on that below) a trailer was all we got. And that one and only extra has been ported over to this new Warner Archive Blu-ray ‒ awkward narrative attempts to sell the film and all ‒ now also remastered in 1080p. It might not sound like much, but then, the same can be said for a film marketed with such a classy, classic tagline as "Julie Christie Carries the Demon Seed. Fear For Her."
But hey, I liked it just the same. Give it a whirl just to honor Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn if nothing else. And, of course, just to see another gloriously outrageous Gerrit Graham death scene.
I wish a domestic (U.S.) outfit would include the incredible documentary: Donald Cammell's Ultimate Performance. It's included on the Arrow bluray release of the classic White of the Eye. You can check it out on YouTube, however. Highly recommended!
Allen Garfield's #1 fan.
2019年9月13日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
By all outward appearances, the intimidating and ginormous (because it's the '70s) machine known as Proteus IV has been designed by Alex Harris (Weaver) and colleagues to benefit mankind. Immediately after bringing his circuit baby online, Harris' contraption develops a treatment for leukemia that surely signals a change for the good. Proteus IV, on the other hand, has other ideas ‒ especially once it starts to examine its creators and their long bloodied history of bizarre and violent behavior. Realizing it will never be able to truly understand man unless it becomes human itself, Proteus IV starts to hatch a diabolical plan.
Meanwhile, Alex's estranged wife (Susan, played by Julie Christie of Petulia, Don't Look Now and Shampoo - sexy as ever) who has been staying in the technologically advanced home her husband had built ‒ complete with a never-ending assortment of automatic gadgets and voice-activated computer programs ‒ discovers she isn't alone. Proteus IV has crept into the home's network to examine Susan and subsequently impregnate her with a sort-of "DNA cocktail" of his own design. Proteus IV has even built a metal multi-sided robot thingy kind of a thing that assumes a variety of shapes and sizes to handle tangible tasks.
Like I said, Demon Seed isn't the easiest motion picture to wrap your head around. Undoubtedly too advanced for audiences of 1977, who just wanted to see guys with laser swords and their furry space ape companions, Demon Seed's underlying message is all too plain to see in this contemporary era where we everyone is walking around with their eyes glued upon the face of their smartphones, so I think it might be fair to say the parable of this Dean Koontz adaptation went without much notice. (We can only assume it was all Proteus IV's doing, as he was a naughty little supercomputer like that.)
Yet, no matter how funky and weird it truly may be, Demon Seed remains a remarkably well-constructed thriller at its operating core. Its lead human performers appear to be quite comfortable in what had to have been one of the oddest fantasy stories committed to celluloid at the time. Sadly, the film became lost in cyberspace after the more popular sci-fi movies of '77 premiered ‒ although it may have provided a fair bit of inspiration for the multitude of Alien rip-offs which would later ensue, many of which featured some sort of similarly-themed extra-terrestrial impregnation motif (Inseminoid, anyone?).
Boasting some pretty nifty special effects (for a movie from the late '70s that wasn't Star Wars and was set in the "real" world), Demon Seed's human co-stars include Phantom of the Paradise star ("Beef")/ Brian DePalma regular/ cult fave, Gerrit Graham as a geeky programmer who makes the fatal mistake of trying to help out our damsel in distress. Barry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, and Larry J. Blake also appear, as does ‒ interestingly enough ‒ one of Graham's Phantom of the Paradise co-stars, comedian/actor Peter Elbling (aka Harold Oblong). There's even an early bit part by future Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Michael Dorn for you Trekkies.
But Demon Seed's true star, boys and girls, is the late great Robert Vaughn, who provided the voice of Proteus IV. While the movie may have been made long after his iconic starring role as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ended (and shortly before his agent decided he should appear in every single movie and television show ever made), Vaughn's contribution to Demon Seed may not have warranted an on-screen credit, but it most assuredly commands your attention. His distinctive sonancy automatically elevates the movie's coolness factor, proving to be both coital and creepy at the same time.
When originally released to VHS in the early '80s, Demon Seed was inexplicably missing some of its more graphic footage (the actual on-screen death of Gerrit Graham's character being one of them), which was thankfully reinstated by the time Warner Bros. released the original widescreen version of the film to DVD in 2005. Well, here we are, several years after Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn both left us in November of 2016 (just 15 days apart from each other, at that), and now the Warner Archive Collection has unveiled this strange ‒ but never boring ‒ cult classic to Blu-ray in an all-new, thoroughly restored 2k scan.
Presented in a truly beautiful 1080p transfer, Demon Seed now looks better than it probably ever meant to. The Panavision photography by Jaws and Grease cinematographer Bill Butler looks exquisite, and the very colorful palette and set design are pure gold (as is that goofy-looking creature thing at the climax of the feature, which looks way too much like Spaceballs' Yogurt for my own very colorful palate). The mono soundtrack has been remastered from original magnetic elements, receiving a new DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono makeover here that is nothing short of superb. English (SDH) subtitles are also included.
When Demon Seed made its digital home video debut in 2005, most of the major studios were still taking the time to produce new special features for old catalog releases. Alas, Demon Seed wasn't one of the titles to receive any such treatment: (more on that below) a trailer was all we got. And that one and only extra has been ported over to this new Warner Archive Blu-ray ‒ awkward narrative attempts to sell the film and all ‒ now also remastered in 1080p. It might not sound like much, but then, the same can be said for a film marketed with such a classy, classic tagline as "Julie Christie Carries the Demon Seed. Fear For Her."
But hey, I liked it just the same. Give it a whirl just to honor Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn if nothing else. And, of course, just to see another gloriously outrageous Gerrit Graham death scene.
I wish a domestic (U.S.) outfit would include the incredible documentary: Donald Cammell's Ultimate Performance. It's included on the Arrow bluray release of the classic White of the Eye. You can check it out on YouTube, however. Highly recommended!
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Meyoda
5つ星のうち5.0
Un des premiers films de SF sur l'IA...
2020年10月4日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
J'avais découvert cet excellent film de SF du temps de la K7 Vidéo (!). Après l'avoir revu beaucoup de temps après via la TV, je souhaitais ardemment l'acquérir sur support DVD ou BD, mais malheureusement, j'ai trop attendu et me suis retrouvé avec une version importée avec sous-titres Anglais uniquement. Cela dit, ayant quelque rudiment de la langue plus le fait de l'avoir vu en version française, ça a pu sauver la mise... Ceci posé, c'est un excellent film, avant-gardiste pour l'époque, et dont les conclusions rappellent en partie, celles de franchise Terminator, à savoir l'inversion des pouvoirs et contrôle par les machines de l'humanité. Dans ce cas présent, c'est la volonté de la Machine de prise de conscience du Vivant et de l'indépendance qui sont souhaités avec toutes les conséquences possibles et imaginables. Tout le Savoir de l'Humanité contenu dans un seul corps "Humain", mais aux capacités quasi infinies... Même si les effets ont quelque peu vieillis, mais pas tant que cela, l'intrigue, les tensions psychologiques, les angoisses ressenties de la principale victime, compensant largement les purs aspects technico-visuels, en plus d'un érotisme retenu procuré par l'actrice, via une mise en scène parfois effrayante, frisant l'Horreur. La fin est tout simplement sidérante et frissonnante... Ce film mériterait une vraie réédition, avec pistes stéréo à minima car déjà le Dolby Surround était de mise à l'époque de sa diffusion en salles.
Jay win
5つ星のうち5.0
Region 0, perfekt
2020年8月7日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Danke, region 0 sollte stani sein!
tallmanbaby
5つ星のうち5.0
gripping and thought provoking
2011年3月6日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This film is undoubtedly a difficult sell.
The plot in a nutshell is about a computer that becomes sentient and then impregnates Julie Christie with its offspring.
Made in 1977 by Donald Cammell who remains best know for his work on Performance with Nic Roeg. It is part science fiction, part horror, without being particularly racy or particularly horrific. It is essentially a chamber piece, like Sleuth [DVD] [1972 ] there are not a lot of characters to look at.
The trailer and packaging would lead you to think that it is an hour and a half of Julie Christie being strapped down and molested by robots.
Having said all that it looks stunning, even just a few characters walking over to a car look fantastic. An intelligent script filmed with respect and stunning visual flair, this film grips from start to finish.
Most of the action is set in mechanised house, that turns sinister as the computer takes over. Fritz Weaver looks very like Patrick McGoohan, and Julie Christie is sympathetic. All the players seem to take it entirely seriously, no matter how preposterous things get.
But the key character is really the computer, Proteus, voiced by Robert Vaughn. It is silky smooth, rational and humane in its way. Proteus is never a straightforward villain, by the end he even has a quiet dignity.
My favourite scenes are Christie huddling on the kitchen table while food sizzles on the superheated floor, and the strange rubics cube of a thing that Proteus creates in the basement, continually refolding itself, like something that no human would have conceived of.
The special effects are actually very good, with no CGI. It does look a little seventies but that should not stop your enjoyment. The sex and violence are more implied than actual and it does not feel exploitative. All in all highly recommended, one of the most accomplished science fiction films ever.
The plot in a nutshell is about a computer that becomes sentient and then impregnates Julie Christie with its offspring.
Made in 1977 by Donald Cammell who remains best know for his work on Performance with Nic Roeg. It is part science fiction, part horror, without being particularly racy or particularly horrific. It is essentially a chamber piece, like Sleuth [DVD] [1972 ] there are not a lot of characters to look at.
The trailer and packaging would lead you to think that it is an hour and a half of Julie Christie being strapped down and molested by robots.
Having said all that it looks stunning, even just a few characters walking over to a car look fantastic. An intelligent script filmed with respect and stunning visual flair, this film grips from start to finish.
Most of the action is set in mechanised house, that turns sinister as the computer takes over. Fritz Weaver looks very like Patrick McGoohan, and Julie Christie is sympathetic. All the players seem to take it entirely seriously, no matter how preposterous things get.
But the key character is really the computer, Proteus, voiced by Robert Vaughn. It is silky smooth, rational and humane in its way. Proteus is never a straightforward villain, by the end he even has a quiet dignity.
My favourite scenes are Christie huddling on the kitchen table while food sizzles on the superheated floor, and the strange rubics cube of a thing that Proteus creates in the basement, continually refolding itself, like something that no human would have conceived of.
The special effects are actually very good, with no CGI. It does look a little seventies but that should not stop your enjoyment. The sex and violence are more implied than actual and it does not feel exploitative. All in all highly recommended, one of the most accomplished science fiction films ever.