Fritz Weaver plays the fussy scientist husband who was responsible for creating the computer system in the first place. The film has a hair-raising ending which reminded me of the INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS remake. The film experiments with some pretty but dated computer graphics and gets a bit too arty for its own good in the second half. As time passes, the film becomes more incredible, as Proteus does some unpleasant-looking experimentation on Christie and a giant gold unfolding cube appears in the basement to chop off an interfering victim's head. The film starts off well, based in reality, working up some scenes of foreboding as we watch the sinister cameras themselves watching every move of the human participants silently. I mean I'm sure in reality she could have escaped from her prison house - why not just block all of the camera lenses so that Proteus can't see her? She doesn't really make that much of an effort to escape and you get the feeling that she deserves what happens to her. She spends far too much time snivelling and not enough time making her own decisions. Christie is a good actress, but I hated her character in this film. Harris, an unsuspecting wife caught up in a diabolical plan of impregnation (yes, you heard that right).
Julie Christie takes the lead role of Mrs. Voiced by an uncredited Robert Vaughn, Proteus is a worthy successor to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY's HAL 9000, a truly frightening computer creation. Not least of these is Proteus itself, a sadistic, incredibly clever computer system out to further itself by fathering a child with Christie. While it's quite a slow paced tale which mainly takes place in a single location, DEMON SEED has plenty of unpleasant moments which are sure to appeal to the horror fan. A bizarre film, an early adaptation of a Dean Koontz tale, which successfully combines the two sci-fi and horror genres to create an unsettling, sometimes disturbing and sometimes very dated tale of (wo)man against machine.
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