As besotted, wheelchair-bound materfamilias Claris Manning, Maggie Rogers is a fireball of hatred in Andy Milligan's malignant masterpiece of misanthropy Seeds (1968). It's the "rotten family" theme, one of Milligan's favorites, and this homecoming of horrors may be the most "Milliganesque" of his entire oeuvre. Co-starring North Carolina's Candy Hammond, who, as recounted in Jimmy McDonough's jaw-dropping Milligan biography The Ghastly One, married the deranged director during filming. Also with Neil Flanagan (Guru, The Mad Monk), Susan Cassidy (Bloodthirsty Butchers), Eileen Hayes (The Ghastly Ones), Patricia Dillon (Gutter Trash), and the breasts of Linda Boyce.
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