Spree

It’s worth watching simply for Joe Kerery’s undeniable charisma and the spot-on casting of Sasheer Zamata in her role. The pacing is sharp, and despite the budget limitations, it manages to keep you fully engaged. The editing is another strong point. While there’s room for improvement in the script and the story’s tendency to go over the top, this film leaves a lasting impression. I believe it deserves to be seen as a reference point in horror, creativity, and independent cinema.

I watched this movie because Joe Keery is in it. I loved it and him!

It's an interesting premise but it gets a little too over the top right from the beginning. The acting is ok, overall the writing is pretty bad, its trying to be a parody of clout hungry steamers, but there is no build up to where the main character gets to the point he's at in the very beginning. Right from the beginning our protagonist is going to the extreme to get views and is failing so there is no build up at all.

Kinda stumbled upon this on Mubi in the wee hrs of the AM while waiting for the Italian Open to start. It’s that rarest of beasts in this Sad Age of the Cinematic IT movement, theatrically at least, i.e., an Original Vision. The closest thing to it, in my mind at least, is Ben Wheatley’s SIGHTSEERS. Highly recommended for the Not Too Squeamish cinemaphile who like their humour with notes of ash & asphalt, and who suspect that Social Media is now just about ripe enough to be plucked from the vine & mashed to a pulp in a plump pulpy satire.

So many hilarious subtle things to see in this movie. It's a wonderfully simple yet beautifully executed (pun intended) spoof of our silly social media obsession. I just love it, and Joe Keery is absolutely brilliant. My daughter saw him recently (Enmore Theatre, Sydney), so I thought I'd see if there was anything by him in our local library. To my surprise Shoalhaven library held this little gem. What a treasure it is, and the social media sites that Joe produced under KurtsWorld96 are funny as heck.

Spree - 6/10. Considering that I liked Marmalade, I wanted to watch more of Joe Keery’s solo work. He’s great in that film, and was good in Free Guy as well, and of course, is one of the highlights in Stranger Things. So, I thought, might as well watch this since I remember seeing people talking about how shocking this film is. To be honest, I wouldn’t say its shocking, but its disturbing in its character’s thought process. Like some of the other reviewers are nothing here: this feels like if the character of the Joker were on streaming. What’s sad is that some might think that the numbers game is all that matters. They feel like that defines them, and I think that Keery has done a great job of capturing that mania and craze for attention here. He’s unhinged as Kurt, but not in the traditional sense. He slowly goes into the character’s delusions, and as the film progresses, you see slowly how the fame and attention propels him to dangerous means. Its a sad commentary towards people’s reliance/importance being shown towards social media. Though I did feel the execution of the visuals here a bit distracting (the movie goes for a Searching type of setup with screen captures being the visual presentation), it is effective in making you feel like you’re watching an uncomfortable stream. Sadly, the director said that this was based around a real incident. Though not scary, it is dreadful in seeing how low a person would go for some sort of notoriety.

🍅 7.4/10 This is why I walk. Honestly, I like the uniqueness and it’s a very entertaining film inconsideration of how is a little bit cheesy, It still maintains a weird realness to it that solidifies its terror. Spree Is surprisingly good slasher.

The most disturbing thing about this movie is, I wouldn't be surprised to see it actually happening. For all the endless time spent on social media, the disconnect between humans has never been wider. I could absolutely see some invisible young person doing something like this, for the 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol assigned each of us. Joe Kerry did a great job as the attention seeking psychopath. The ending especially felt really famiar in this day and age.

It's supposed to be a comedy, but it is surely a pretty sick and macabre one. Well, nowadays we get more and more weird scripts onto the screen, with some, like this one, making one afraid of copycats. And with so many young folks only worried about absurd numbers of friends, likes and followers within their social media sites, it would actually not surprise me if some disturbed dude would go out on a killing SPREE to achieve just that. Definitely too bloody for my taste, but unfortunately with quite a disturbing realism of the tides of our times. 5/10 points.

Despite being a movie that does not have the best plot, I really love mostly because the energy Joe Keery brings to Kurt. I just love Joe Keery so much😆