The Countdown to Halloween Day 5 Seedpeople (1992)

 

 

Everybody knows, OK not everybody but a lot of people know I love Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment.  Now I don’t like Band because his movies are so damn good, in fact it’s usually the opposite.  Look, Full Moon ain’t putting out movies that are up for Academy Awards but damn it, they are entertaining.  Seedpeople falls into that category.  Sort of.  Seedpeople is directed by frequent Charles Band collaborator Peter Manoogian who has also directed Demonic Toys and Eliminators.  Both of which Band also produced.

 

 

Seedpeople, which is not a rip off of Invasion of The Body Snatchers.  At all.  You guys, I mean it.  It’s not.  Well, you be the judge after I tell you more about Seedpeople.  Starring here is Sam Jennings (Caddo Lake and Four Good Days) as Tom, a geologist.  The story is mostly told through his eyes.  So the story is this: a small town is invaded by some sort of alien beings.  These aliens are seeds that fall off an outer space tree and eventually turn into aliens.  These seed people are able to make themselves look like the people they take over.  The seed people don’t kill the originals and make alien copies of them,  they take over their bodies and minds.  See, not like Body Snatchers at all.

 

 

Also starring is Andrea Roth (The Collector and TVs Rescue Me) as Heidi who is Tom’s former love interest.  While being back home to investigate a meteorite that has fallen Tom stays at Heidi’s bed and breakfast.  The hometown even has an interesting name: Comet Valley.  To make matters worse about the current situation, the town will be cut off from the mainland as the bridge leading to the island is going to be down for repair.  This traps everyone on the island and specifically Comet Valley.  Oh, I almost forgot to add that Sonny Carl Davis (Evil Bong series of films and a lot of other Full Moon movies) also has a small part here as well but he’s not the same character that I know and love from the Evil Bong films so really, anyone could have played the roll.

 

 

Before you asks, I’m gonna tell you that of course this is the normal low budget Full Moon movie.  For the most part the cinematography is good for it’s time but the issue is with the seed people.  When they are rolled up into their rolling around pods they look a little bit like a hairy scrotum.  Sorry, they do.  And when they come out of their tuck and begin to fly and or walk they look like a poodle with a bad case of the mange.  Heidi’s niece Kim is able to capture the seed people on video tape (using one of the first video cameras ever made judging by it’s size) and the local doctor Doc Roller knows about the seed people before Tom and the rest of the town does.  Doc Roller uses UV lights to combat the invaders as they do not seem to like them.  The film is OK as it is and I wouldn’t tell you to avoid it but I can’t give it anything more than two and a half Ding Dong Hecka-ma-Doodle-Hells out of five.  It’s really two and three quarters but no quarter stars allowed here!