Five-Legged Iguana

¡QUÉ HORROR! 2019

Candidate #26

SEEDS

(March 2018)

“I'm not well, obviously.”

There is something wrong with Marcus (Trevor Long); he seems to be taking some kind of pills for whatever it is.

There’s also something decidedly uncomfortable about his relationship with his teenage niece Lily (Andrea Chen).

Oh, and there seems to be some kind of creature lurking in Marcus’ (now deceased) parents’ house. Or maybe it’s all just in Marcus’ head. (There is something wrong with him, after all. And we’re not even going to get into his obsession with the old house’s wiring…)

These are the roots from which the twisted tale of Owen Long’s Seeds grow, as domestic circumstances dictate that Lily and her younger brother Spencer (Garr Long) stay with their “Uncle M”, while things steadily progress from Not Good to WTF is Going On Here?!

By turns upsetting, confounding, and disturbing--three things a horror movie should be, even though most (particularly those from the Hollywood assembly line) aren’t--Seeds is definitely the kind of horror film that isn’t for everybody, given the sensitive subject matter and the partially oblique narrative approach.

For those who are open about how they define “horror” though, Seeds may very well be worth a look.

“Uncle M, fairy tales aren’t just for little girls.”

(Seeds OS courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com.)