The Spore

Okay, I'm only 25 minutes into this, and I can tell already its just a jumbled mess. I usually think bad reviews aren't justified, but in this case they are. It just seems the director pieced together some eerie sequences and jump scares with no real direction in mind. I will admit, the radio broadcasting in the background added a level of creepiness to it all. But it's not enough to sustain it. Also, everyone seems very cavalier and uninterested in the fact that this world-ending epidemic is occurring. I think I see what the director was trying to do, but it just fell flat. Good special effects for such a stinker movie.

Five minutes into the movie and you are already thinking that this HAS to be a joke. The movie just kept on getting worse than before and you're saying to yourself, there is no way this is real, like "I must have accidentally had a stroke when this movie started" because you couldn't make the actors act worse if they were trying, and the dialogue was horrendous!! Where did they find these people? I just assumed they picked them up outside of Home Depot or Lowes and gave them $10 to say a few lines. Everyone involved in the making of this film should be sterilized or shot in the face, either option still isn't justice enough though...

It looks like an amateurish (wannabe) horror-flick from the seventies: the pace is extremely slow, the score is an irritating sound-drone, the setting is somewhere in the bushes, and the scares are non-existent. The acting is abominable: uptight and wooden, so the lack of any substantial dialogue has probably been a big relief for the actors (and for us). The story leans almost entirely on a radio news-broadcast that keeps on talking in the background, in the process more or less functioning as a narrator of what is going on.

Well, what seems to be going on is a vicious, human flesh-eating fungus that spreads like crazy and turns bodies, after they are eaten away to the bone, into zombies. So what we get to see (at an annoying snails pace) is an endless series of gnawed skeletons, with sudden spasms of life, while not yet infected people, who incidentally stumble over these skeletons, try desperately (and incessantly screaming) to escape. The make-up department did give it their best, and at times the skeletons look seriously creepy. But that's about it at the tiny positive side.

Exasperated I threw in the towel after 45 minutes of constantly having to see the same lame goings-on, being especially angry with myself for spending 5,99 euro to stream this nonsense!

The only good thing about this movie is the idea: some kind of fungus appears on Earth and starts to change people that made contact with it. But we don't know where the spore came from. We don't know if it's changing people into some kind of new lifeform or simply consumes some part of them to grow. We don't know if there's any connection between the people appearing in the scenes.

Both the video and the audio quality is poor: the night scenes are too dark, the music and the unimportant noise is too loud while the speech from the radio is hardly audiable.

In the first 15 minutes hardly anything happens. And nothing realy happens afterwards. This hardly can be called a movie but a clip show of death scenes caused by a fungus from an unknown source. And the ending is just like of a story that was cut into halves. Avoid.

When we were young kids we liked to put our imagination in gear and come up with neat things to do! That was when we were in 5th or 6th grade. Later we realized that our ideas were generally immature as we got older. This movie had to be the brainchild of an imaginative child because it is not well-threaded nor very entertaining! Perhaps the producers of this mess should go back to basics and back to film school!