It’s the film acquisition deal that keeps on giving.
Back in August, Bayview Entertainment acquired the UK’s noted horror and cult-cinema distributor Vipco … that move is paying huge dividends during the first quarter of 2023 (and likely beyond).
News arrived this past week that producer/writer/director Skip Shea’s “small world” horror thriller, Seeds, will be making its Blu-ray debut on Jan. 31.
Andrew (Patrick Bracken) is a professor who is noted for his expertise on ancient (obscure) cults. So you can imagine his surprise when an uncle — who is something of a mystery to him (how ironic) — dies and bequeaths him material on (have you guessed it?) an ancient New England cult.
The good professor is a book-learned “expert” and has very little “real world” (or is that “unreal world”) experience, so this is something of a godsent. Off he goes to investigate, and with the help of his dead uncle’s “friend,” Barbara (played by Barbara Magnolfi — for genre fans, she played Olga in Dario Argento’s Suspiria and was Ursula in Enzo Milioni’s The Sister of Ursula), he is gives something of a task to carry out by her when he reaches his dead uncle’s remote island village … she gives him seeds to be given to the first person he meets who is “worthy.”
Oh boy, a reasonable person would be headed back home. This is just too creepy.
Especially so, when Andrew’s wife, Macha (Emma MacKenzie — Lazarus, Night of the Naked Dead) is absolutely furious that her starry-eyed husband would undertake such a fool-hearty quest!! She’s having none of this pagan nonsense!
About this point in filmmaker Skip Shea’s tasty horror tale, you are likely thinking that Andrew is going to be the center of things in some remote, out-of-the-way place … to be carved up, sacrificed and never seen again. Perhaps.
But, there is a wicked twist involving the devout Macha, who decides to follow her husband! No spoilers here!!
Seeds is not a routine horror entry. It worked the festival circuit for two solid years for genre fans to enjoy … stops along the way leading up to its Blu-ray launch from Bayview Entertainment on Jan. 31 included the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival (2020), the Fright Night International Horror Film Festival (2020), iHorrordb Horror Film Festival (2021) and many more.
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