 Demon Seed (1977)
An
unusual science fiction thriller, Donald Cammell's Demon Seed
casts Julie Christie as a scientist's wife who is imprisoned in
her house, and assaulted and impregnated by the household computer
which manages to activate normally inanimate objects in their
home.
The artificially-inseminated ovum is placed in a special
incubator and eventually hatches into a metallic-scaled
baby.
In a fit of mother-love, Christie stops her husband from taking
to it with a hatchet. The scales then fall away, revealing a
perfectly normal human baby.
Everyone is frightfully relieved for a few moments, until the
baby intones mechanically "I live".
This film is not as bad as it sounds, and well worth watching
once.
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