{"id":7075,"date":"2026-05-30T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:58:46","slug":"demon-seed-by-donald-cammell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/30\/demon-seed-by-donald-cammell\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Demon Seed<\/em> by Donald Cammell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u274c <em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> in sci-fi, but terrible.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Screenplay, dialogues, action, camera, cut, pacing, you name it, are staggeringly bad or utterly boring or both.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c It achieves the impossible by letting even Christie\u2019s performance look like a school play rehearsal.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that having sex with an AI looks like the $4.99 Walmart version of <em>2001: A Space Odyssee<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demon_Seed\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Demon Seed<\/em><\/a> by Donald Cammell, 1977.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on May 29, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/30\/demon-seed-by-donald-cammell\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Demon Seed by Donald Cammell\"><p>\ud83c\udfac \u201cHow bad could it be?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}