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I thought I had posted about Spree back when it played Sundance at the start of this year but honestly, who the fuck knows what happened in the past six months. A search tells me I didn't -- a search also could have told me I gave birth to a velociraptor named Bartholomew and I'd believe it at this point. Whoo! We're hitting a mood! Anyway, Spree. Spree is a movie that stars Joe Keery as a ride-share driver who decides to social-media document a day of murderous mayhem in order to gain viral popularity. So we've got some Series 7: The Contenders, some Taxi Driver, some Joe Keery having weird serial-killer hair...
I feel as if I remember Joe's flattened down hair causing an OUTRAGE on the internet when it was spotted last fall, which was probably the time when this movie was shot -- how weird it must be to have to mentally prepare yourself for all of the hair questions he's going to be getting. Like at the time when people asked did he scream, "Stop yelling at me, I am playing a crazy murderer, this is crazy murderer hair!" And now that we can see the movie is coming out will he be all, "SEE??? CRAZY MURDERER HAIR! I TOLD YOU!"
Anyway there are actually other people in this movie, it's not just two hours of Joe Keery having a conversation with his hair -- Spree also stars Sasheer Zamata, Mischa Barton, Frankie Grande, Kyle Mooney and David Arquette, and Spree will be hitting demand, hair-first, on August 14th. Here's the trailer!
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Is it just me or is "psychopath commits atrocities to go viral" the new "bullied victim of teen prank gone wrong comes back for revenge". Admittedly, the only other film I can think of is Like Me but this still feels weirdly played out as a theme.
Hmmm... I’ll take a pass...
It’s more like the new version of the found footage horror flick, ala Blair Witch, which I absolutely loved, from which (a lot of whiches) everything that it spawned afterwards was substandard. The paranormal activity shit and so forth. I’ll never forget my disappointment with that first Paranormal Activity film when the leads discovered the shape of the demons feet in the dust was chicken feet. It killed the whole thing for me. After that all I could think was they were being besieged by Big Bird. But man, I saw Blair Witch in the theater the week it came out, and I’ll tell you, the gasp of silence in the audience was electric. William Castle had to have taken a major bow at that one. It’s always the first filmmaker who does the new gimmick that needs to get it right the first time to make it work.
Mayhem for fame is a genre. Some examples-- Joker, King of Comedy, Natural Born Killers
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