Sam Walker’s The Seed had its World Premiere at last October’s Arrow Video FrightFest. The film played great to the FrightFest audience, winning them over with it’s rather eccentric plot, excellent visual effects, and expertly layered story. Not content to create a straight forward B-movie to please the midnight movie booze crowd, The Seed has plenty of important messages to say about the state of society, its reliance on social media, and oddly enough, even some exploration of what it means to be a parent.
The plot joins lifelong friends Deidre (Lucy Martin, Vikings), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur, Resident Evil: Apocalypse), and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge, I Hate Suzie) as they finally get some time away together, using the upcoming meteor shower to gather more followers for their social media channels. But what starts out as a girls’ getaway in the Mojave Desert descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an invasive alien force whose air of mystery soon proves to be alluring and irresistible to them. Before long, the situation devolves into a battle to the death, where the stakes have galaxy-wide implications.
The Seed marks the first feature for writer and director Sam Walker and has been a long time coming. With a strong background in short format films, Walker has been hard at work trying to get a feature made for the better part of sixteen years. When finally everything came together he found himself faced with the problem of having to create the film during a global pandemic. Not an easy task, and one that came with its fair share of pressure points; the end result however, is a fun and thought-provoking journey into madness. We originally spoke to Sam Walker immediately after the FrightFest premiere. Ahead of The Seed’s arrival on horror streaming giant Shudder, we caught up with him again.
The Seed arrives on Shudder worldwide from Thursday 10th March 2022.
