Best movie of this year hands down!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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.

"Seed" is utter, irredeemable, tasteless trash that wants to have a message about human nature and cruelty but means absolutely nothing. The film begins with a bold warning message. Take it seriously because once you plunge in, not only are you treated to real-life footage of animals being skinned alive, but you will also have to endure violence so brutal it will make your stomach churn.The story revolves around Max Seed (Will Sanderson) very prolific serial killer. Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Paré) and a bumbling crew of police officers finally capture Seed. Sentenced to death, the murderer is sent to the electric chair. Unfortunately, he is so evil he manages to survive the chair. Not wanting this scumbag loose again, the prison staff decides to bury Seed alive. Seed not only manages to crawl out of his grave and begin his reign of terror once again.This is an angry movie. People are brutally killed left and right, as if the director was an irritated teenager doodling in his binder. We're not talking the kind of fun goofy kills that you can find in such horror "classics" as say, "Friday the 13th part 3: in 3-D", we're talking about a bound woman crying while she gets beaten to death for 5 minutes straight. Listening to the commentary, director Uwe Boll claims he is trying to send a message about how humans are not born good and are capable of terrible things. If that's the case, Seed should have grown up in a perfectly normal home and snapped one day. Instead, we are told that he was severely disfigured as a child, to the point where he always wears a burlap sack over his head. Clearly the problem here is that poor Seed suffered some childhood trauma, not that he was born evil.As for the "regular people", the guards responsible for Seed's imprisonment act inappropriately by burying the killer alive, but their mistake isn't breaking the law, it's being stupid. A guy who manages to kill 666 people doesn't deserve to be buried alive when a standard execution doesn't work out. By not putting a bullet in the man's head, these guys are even more despicable than the killer because of their utter idiocy. Seriously, what we have here is a butcher so prolific he averaged a murder every 3 days. Doesn't standard police procedure for that kind of bust involve bringing a tank or arming every officer with a flame thrower?I took offense to the idea that the film was violent in an artistic way because it dwells so much on the bloodshed. You don't make a movie about the brutality of human beings by lingering on the violence and throwing dead bodies at the screen in a way that will appeal to horror fans. It would be like making an anti-war movie where the good guys mow down legions of devil-worshiping, tax-evading racists who are killing the whales, chopping down the rain forest only to close the film by showing that a small, handicapped child with cancer was caught in the crossfire.Setting aside the film's lack of direction, it simply isn't that entertaining to watch. The main characters are so stupid you don't really care for them and the villain is so evil you can't cheer for him either. It all begins with Seed practically masturbating to footage of dogs being skinned alive and baby seals being clubbed so right away you just hate this guy. The old "666" cliché is so tired that you're just grasping at anything from this killer to make him somewhat memorable or charismatic in the way you're used to seeing in films like "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Child's Play" or even the "Saw" and "Collector" series. Unfortunately the guy never utters a word so he has no personality and there's not even a dark humor element to him either. I personally really thought Boll missed the mark on the whole serial killer thing. Have Seed working up to his six-hundredth and sixty sixth kill. If you just have him killing people all of the time, it's just a bizarre coincidence that they managed to capture him right when he offed his 666th victim.Aside from the mistakes in the character development, the movie falls into the same trappings as every bad slasher movie. No one ever call for backup when they should, the killer roams unnoticed or teleports under beds just so we can have a jump scare and nameless characters are thrown in just so they can be butchered and add to the body count. The whole experience is draining. From the very beginning and with the ending being what it is (I won't reveal it, no spoilers allowed here) it just leaves you wondering what the point of it all was.I suppose that praise could be given in the sense that technically, Director Uwe Boll is improving as a filmmaker.The special effects are good and it is genuinely disturbing. The camera work is fine, particularly the long shots and even the sequences where we get the shaky camera too. I guess the movie is memorable too; I can't remember the last time I was cheering for a person to be sexually assaulted inside of a prison. Really though, there's nothing artistic or entertaining here. There's no joy of filmmaking, no compelling story lines or characters to cheer for. It starts off on a revolting note (Seriously, showing animal cruelty as entertainment? Shame on you PETA) and it descends lower and lower into a depressing endeavor. This low-budget horror does show promise but he really needs someone to rein him in. This is coming from the guy that actually liked "BloodRayne", so you know I wanted to have a good time too. I can't recommend "Seed" to anyone and it saddens me to think that people would find this entertaining. (Unrated Cut on DVD, November 9, 2013)

If you take what Boll meant to say, you would have something that I would kind of liked. Well liked is maybe the wrong word, but something I could respect. And this is not Boll bashing (watch Tunnel Rats or Darfur is supposed to be good to), it's just that this movie does look what the budget was like. Lighting, set-up, everything looks sort of cheap. But then you do have some moments of genius thrown in there, in the make-up, special effects department at least. There is a scene with prison bars, that will make you cringe.But all that does not help. The real animal torture scenes, that start the movie off and are there to get you "in the mood", are more than disturbing, which is their purpose. Not sure it works in favor of the movie though either. Yes humans can be cruel, it's not something that is a big revelation. The end might suggest something, though with a sequel that followed that might have been not what Boll intended it to be

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!