# Anyone remember what movie this is from?

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**Created:** [August 10, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742 "2020-08-10T21:04:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742/1 "2020-08-10T21:04:52Z")

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One of the publicity still looked like this: picture a pizza made of metal, with all the slices pulled away from the center, and a guy’s head in the middle.

Sometime from the mid ‘80s to mid ‘90s, I would think.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742/2 "2020-08-10T22:02:07Z")

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Found it:  
[![](http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film6/blu-ray_reviews_75/demon_seed_blu-ray_/960 __demon_seed_X07_blu-ray__ blu-ray_.jpg) ](http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film6/blu-ray_reviews_75/demon_seed_blu-ray_/960 __demon_seed_X07_blu-ray__ blu-ray_.jpg)  
Demon Seed

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742/3 "2020-08-10T23:56:35Z")

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> [@beowulff](#):
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> Found it:

Renders my participation moot. Much like Real Life.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742/4 "2020-08-11T00:47:45Z")

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I knew the picture and the movie just from the OP’s description. 😃 I loved that movie when I was a kid.

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**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-what-movie-this-is-from/917742/5 "2020-08-11T05:59:05Z")

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Umm…

Was that the one where the hyperintelligent computer kidnaps and artificially impregnates the CIO’s wife with a modified zygote so it can experience life?

I think I saw that on TV when I was in sixth grade or so. Artificial insemination was still in the (failing) experimental stage at the time, and this was a ridiculous sci fi stretch even back then. Even at that age I was wondering if it was made by religious zealots trying to warn the world against scientists treading on God’s domain.

–G… 🤮