Thy Davideth Demon Seed is about a self aware A.I. computer who sexually terrorises a woman and wants to breed with her. Wow! This movie was great. The very conception of technological terror is what stimulates my wee-wee with movies like this. I love the dialogue of the computer, the way it articulates its desires to become a physical being away from its hollow existence. Added is the horror elements which gives it more "spunk". Duh hut! Other things, the acting was good, the cyber-punk elements were good even by late 70s standards and all that $#!+. The pacing was a little slow but it doesn't ruin the movie one bit. Highest recommendation.

talisencrw I had only known of the eccentric, ill-fated director Donald Cammell by going through Kenneth Anger's provocative short films collections and seeing Cammell act, early in his career, in Anger's 'Lucifer Rising'. Here, Julie Christie was both gorgeous and eerily convincing in a bizarre hybrid of 'Rosemary's Baby' with sci-fi elements reminiscent of 'Colossus: The Forbin Project'.The unique atmosphere and directorial integrity alone are worth the price of admission here. Well worth both purchasing and re-watching for the cinematically adventurous connoisseurs out there. It's a crying shame that Cammell chose to end his life, and didn't make more works that pushed the boundaries of contemporary American cinema.

Armand for idea and for the use of it. for Julie Christie performance and for the mixture of mystery, technology and special effects. for the good solutions to a lot of questions, dreams, fears. for the art to be more than a SF. maybe, a provocation. it is strange to say if it is a good/ bad movie. it is not important. but it is a film who can seduce. for its end, for the steps of terror, for humanism and for the basic fact than each of us is a partner of machines. a film about innocence lost. not amazing. only useful as occasion to reflect about few sides of reality. a film who can be inspired occasion to discover the heart of a different form of adventure.

Andrew Huggett I first saw this film in approx 1982 – I vaguely remembered the automated house, the binocular video surveillance cameras and especially the weird angular metal bronze thing which folded down into a sort of polygon shape (while making 'Star Trek' door whooshing sounds). Reasonably amusing distraction for its mercifully brief running time (it's really quite silly) despite the 2001-style split screen 'beyond infinity' sequence. It ends predictably just as the story was getting interesting – i.e. the artificial intelligence child is born. There are several plot holes – what did Proteus do with the scientist he murdered by decapitation and why didn't Julie Christie's ex-husband not come round for 28 days when up to that point in the film he'd been a regular visitor? There are other inconsistencies and questions – for example, why is Proteus so interested in looking at the constellation of Orion? Robert Vaughn's voice as Proteus is suitably chilling. Anyway, it's not too bad.