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The Seeding

Play trailer 1:52 Poster for The Seeding Released Jan 26 1h 34m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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In THE SEEDING, a hiker lost in the desert takes refuge with a woman living alone, and soon discovers that she might not be there willingly.
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Rich atmosphere and a handful of genuinely disturbing moments are only sporadically enough to outweigh The Seeding's monotonous pace and lack of narrative depth.

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Phil Hoad Guardian The film benefits from debut feature director Barnaby Clay’s desire to transfix us with his artfully detailed redneck-biblical landscape. Rated: 3/5 Feb 6, 2024 Full Review Sergio Burstein Los Angeles Times The atmosphere is spectacular, and the disturbing moments are not missed, but it failed, definitively, at the end of its cook time. [Full review in Spanish] Jan 30, 2024 Full Review Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com Clay’s surreal drama isn’t stillborn as much as it’s emotionally uninflected and monotonous. Rated: 2/4 Jan 26, 2024 Full Review Paul Lê Tales from the Paulside Ultimately, there's just not enough here to praise, on either an emotional or narrative level, but like some deserts, the film is nice to look at. It's just a place no one would be advised to go, much less stay. Rated: 2/5 Apr 14, 2024 Full Review Chad Collins Dread Central The Seeding is a terrifying primal scream across scorched earth and one of the year’s most confident debuts. Rated: 4/5 Apr 1, 2024 Full Review Lee Zumpe Tampa Bay Newspapers Clay’s fusing of claustrophobic estrangement, grisly carnage and Freudian oedipal complexes offers a disturbing allegory about parenthood and the harsh realities of survival. Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kyle M Though distasteful and progressively unwatchable in unflinchingly depicting rural folk horror, it gradually favors in being philosophically seeded and forebodingly clever whilst twistedly tightening within the natural ambiance. (B-) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/01/24 Full Review Mikko S It's greatest ammo is its simplicity and rawness in portrayal of human struggle confronted with the mysticism of unknown. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/22/24 Full Review Paimon D The Seeding is a film; it exists despite it trying desperately to self destruct at every opportunity. Stepping on its own toes, The Seeding has some genius but if you’re a fan of cerebral horror steer clear of this flick. When it works it really works and when it fails, the pieces that had you hooked seem to be screaming up from a well. Bottom line, The Seeding is a watchable atrocity ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/20/24 Full Review Audience Member A insufferable main character, and crule movie that is just as bad as it gets. Not ever the desert location can save this horrible film. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/14/24 Full Review Courtney W Wholly dislikable characters. The lack of dialogue exacerbates the monotony of the movie. Utterly predictable every step of the way. It came off as an inbred mashup of Mad Max and The Hills Have Eyes with some peppering of cliff paintings and Mother. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/10/24 Full Review Adam D The only redeeming value of this movie is that it proves how modern writers can't even string together a cohesive beginning-middle-end arc. This movie started with an obvious premise. Then middle, where the protagonist should be working out a clever means of escaping his fate, was absent. It was just a guy along for the ride and experiencing the "horror". The end was just... nothing. They said they'd kill him, the whole movie led up to his death and it happened as expected. No twist. No attempt at self preservation. Nothing. It's as though someone came up with a premise, "Woman waits in pit to be impregnated then man dies", handed it to the production staff and said, "do this". Lazy, stupid and a waste of the audience's time and money. There's a kind of social contract between creator and viewer to attempt to entertain, and this trash didn't even try. This is no critique of the actors who were fine. This film failed right out of the gate by lacking the foundation of all entertainment, a story that is so good it HAS to be told. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In THE SEEDING, a hiker lost in the desert takes refuge with a woman living alone, and soon discovers that she might not be there willingly.
Director
Barnaby Clay
Producer
Brian R. Etting
Screenwriter
Barnaby Clay
Distributor
Magnet Releasing
Production Co
Out of the Ether
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 26, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 26, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.0K
Runtime
1h 34m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.66:1)
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