By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
The good, the bad and the ugly of a dozen movies gone direct to DVD this month. 
12. Seed
Cast: Michael Pare, Will Sanderson
This stomach-churning chiller finds director Uwe Boll in a reflective state of mind as he sickeningly details the Sisyphus-like efforts of Paré’s detective to capture a serial killer (a lumbering, taciturn Sanderson). The German hack clearly wants to say something profound about man’s capacity to kill -- hence the incorporation of PETA-supplied footage of animals being abused -- but he’s undermined by his decision to present Sanderson’s Seed as more Jason Voorhees than Hannibal Lector. The inclusion of Richard Gale’s witty short Criticized -- about a pissed-off horror director who tortures a movie reviewer -- is obviously directed at to those who continually pan Boll’s bombs. OK, we’ve been warned.
DVD Features: Deleted Scenes; Behind the Scenes feature; and Criticized short film.
Stars: 0 out of 5
KEEP READING: See No. 11