The Seed (2021)

Interesting facts

The Seed is the 2021 science fiction body horror feature film directorial debut of Sam Walker, who also wrote the script. The movie premiered in the United States at Beyond Fest, after which it was released to Shudder as one of its original films. The film received mixed to positive reviews.

Production

Prior to directing The Seed, Walker had only directed short films, making the movie his feature film directorial debut. He has cited Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Eraserhead, as inspirations for the movie, as well as the art of painter Ambera Wellmann.

Walker used social media as an element for the film, likening it to how the creature was "kind of weak, blind, and strange, and have this something else inside it". He stated that social media "looks like it's one thing and you look at it -- yeah, that's cool, but you're doing something completely fucking different" and that "To me, The Seed represents how on social media, someone can watch one video that will then lead to something that begins t…

Filming took place in Malta during 2020. Deadline noted that The Seed was a "rare example of a project to have been fully packaged and financed during lockdown." Lucy Martin was brought on to portray influencer Deirdre, a character she described as high energy and different from herself.

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