Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge (2014)

Back in 2011 I had the pleasure of meeting director Marcel Walz and actress Annika Strauss at The European Weekend of Horrors in Germany. They were lovely people, extremely passionate about their chosen pursuit and very friendly, so it pains me to say that Seed 2 (AKA Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge), directed by Walz and starring Strauss, and co-written by the pair, is far from a great film (to put it mildly).A sequel to Uwe Boll's Seed (2006), Seed 2 follows four girls, Christine, Olivia, Barbara and Claire (played by Natalie Scheetz, Christa Campbell, Sarah Hayden, and Strauss), who, after a wild hen night in Vegas, run into a family of killers in the desert, one of whom is none other than Max Seed (Nick Principe), the psycho from the first film.What follows is a series of torture scenes involving some fairly brutal violence (gore courtesy of director/SFX guy Ryan Nicholson), but what makes the movie a total let down is the woefully unoriginal script (which borrows heavily from The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), the equally dire performances, and, worst of all, the pointless non-linear style that, rather than add intrigue, simply makes the whole thing a confusing and thoroughly irritating mess.Sorry Marcel, and sorry Annika, but I rate Seed 2 a pitiful 3 out of 10 (solely for the gore), minus half a point for having Claire wander the desert despite being run through with a serrated knife and nailed to the ground, and minus another half for leaving me scratching my head in puzzlement: exactly who was Caroline Williams supposed to be? Seed's mother? In which case, who was The Officer (Manoush) and why did Max Seed snap her neck at the end?

You've seen movies where there's no real story, just a villain brutalizing young, semi- attractive girls for no apparent reason? Well, this is like that, but with a non-linear narrative! I think the trick is that you are forced to watch to the end to see if there is in fact any kind of coherent story. If you do, let me know, because I only made it 30 minutes in.

Granted, I haven't seen the first "Seed" movie, so I have no clue whether or not this sequel lives up to the first movie. But given the low ratings both part 1 and 2 have scored on IMDb, then I guess the first movie was just as bad as this sequel was.The storyline was completely pointless, if not utter rubbish. A group of girls are on a roadtrip, when they have to pass through the desert. Coming across a police woman on foot in the middle of the desert, the girls stop and decide to give her a helping hand. But something is very wrong this far out in the desert.Right... Well, the storyline was fairly straight forward, but towards the end it took a rather unforeseen turn for the worse and it just went downhill so fast. Prior to that, then the movie did bear some resemblance to movies such as "The Hill Have Eyes"."Seed 2: The New Breed" doesn't really bring anything innovative to the genre. In fact, this is the type of movie that you just shut down your brain while watching, because it requires nothing from the audience.The acting in the movie was good and the camera work was good, and that the the high points of the movie, the rest was just a waste of time.The sound effects were so off the chart that is was just annoying. Someone got shot in the head, and there was a long series of slurp-like sounds. It just didn't make any sense whatsoever."Seed 2: The New Breed" tries to be brutal, but it fails in doing so. There is nothing original or innovating about the entire movie. And it becomes a struggle to sit through the entire movie to the very end.I can't really recommend "Seed 2: The New Breed" to anyone, because it was a waste of time. And now having suffered through it, I can honestly say that I am not even going to bother with part one.

The first Seed Movie by Uwe Boll was already pretty bad but compared to this waste of resources even Seed 1 seems like pure genius. Everything about this movie looks like a student project. The opening scene introduces us to bad acting, bad writing and timing and starts the movie with a calculated provocative scene that immediately falls flat on its face.After that you are basically treated to half an hour of boredom, incredibly bad acting from the female leads and dialog and a "plot" that is so blatantly ripped off a hundred other movies and re-invented in the most annoying way possible that I really wonder if many make it more than 20 minutes into this "movie". So you have a van full of bad acting chicks driving through the desert, picking up hitchhikers, meeting a bored police woman acting even worse than everyone else... and then they die. Sometimes it looks like they wanted to go for a "Hills have eyes" style... but after all its just shots of the desert and a guy in a mask killing chicks.The camera work is mediocre (still the best about the movie), the sound mixing is off with several characters far too hard to understand, the choice of music is bad, the editing is uneven and forced, the storytelling and dialog are childish (must have been written on a bus ride or something) and even the only thing that could make this a little watchable looks cheap and unrealistic.... the FX. Usually German horror movies suck at almost everything but deliver some decent FX. Seed delivers absolutely NOTHING.Avoid at any cost.