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  • Seminal
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  • Seminal is a 2008 American Supernatural Slasher Horror film written and directed by David O. Russell starring Emmy Rossum, Armie Hammer, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ryan Kelley, Anna Camp, Ryan Coogler, Charlyne Yi, Amber Riley, Dreama Walker, Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, Jamie Bamber and Susan Downey. The film was pre-screen success at the Los Angeles Film Festival which it opened to critical praise on September 9th, 2008 and then theatrically September 11th, 2008 in which it was met with much box office success. Seminal was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Radar Pictures.
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  • Seminal is a 2008 American Supernatural Slasher Horror film written and directed by David O. Russell starring Emmy Rossum, Armie Hammer, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ryan Kelley, Anna Camp, Ryan Coogler, Charlyne Yi, Amber Riley, Dreama Walker, Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, Jamie Bamber and Susan Downey. The film was pre-screen success at the Los Angeles Film Festival which it opened to critical praise on September 9th, 2008 and then theatrically September 11th, 2008 in which it was met with much box office success. Seminal was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Radar Pictures. It is rated R for Strong bloody violence and gore, some sexual content, grisly images, male rear nudity and language. It was awarded the Saturn Award nomination for Best Horror Film 2008 but lost out to Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy Sequel: The Golden Army. The film has garnered a cult following and has been held up with iconic horror movies Scream and the later following Cabin In The Woods as the best metafilm horror films in the archives of film history. It however unlike Cabin In The Woods and Scream is the first Metafilm horror film of such commercial and critical praise to not have secured the year's Saturn Award. The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 24th, 2008.