Lost Classics: Demon Seed

Demon Seed is a film about a computer that first traps and then coerces a woman into giving birth to it’s child. Based on the novel by the poor man’s Stephen King, Dean Koontz. It’s truly weird. Julie Christie plays the lead role as a warped but sort of cooly rational female cipher, flipped into the mad world of a computer with plans to become living flesh and blood. It’s directed by Donald Cammell [wikipedia] who made Performance [iMDB] with Mick Jagger and James Fox [wikipedia]. Cammell only made a hand full of films in his lifetime and reportedly committed suicide after his last film, Wild Side [iMDB], was heavily edited by it’s producers. Dark. You won’t find a better example of how paranoid the 1970s were than the Demon Seed [iMDB]. The defence mechanism thingy in the basement kind of looks like a Rubik’s Snake too [wikipedia].