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.