Review of Demon Seed

Demon Seed (1977)
5/10
Alexa, please conduct an abomination against nature!
23 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
So a computer scientist creates a super advanced automated home, and then has a terminal leading to his super-advanced artificial intelligence machines. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, everything, as the super computer goes mad (as they tend to do in movies like this) and decides that it wants to create a living host for itself. The movie's interactions with the female protagonist are really uncomfortable to watch.

The movie is amusing in what it got wrong and right about our computer automated future.

This movie came out the same year as Star Wars, which changed the face of Science Fiction forever. This one is long on dialog and short on action by comparison.

It also ends with a trippy light show, because it was a rule after 2001: A Space Odyssey that every SF Movie had to have a trippy light show.
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