The Spore

We thought this would be cool being it's based in Michigan and it's near us. Immediately into it I was annoyed with the background music. It's pretty much though the entire movie except tiny parts. What's the point of this other than to bug the heck out of you!

What's the reason this was even made? The is next to no dialogue and what there is, is terrible! Horrible acting, I mean absolutely horrible.

I told my husband and mom that if I didn't pay $6 for it I would turn it off almost immediately. We weren't even half way into it and I was done... I wish I didn't waste money on this and rented something worth watching. You literally have no idea what's going on. They shift from one persons story to the next.

They should have just kept this idea in their journal.

Well this 2021 horror movie titled "The Spore" from writer and director D. M. Cunningham certainly sounded interesting from the synopsis and the movie's cover/poster also had some interesting appeal to it. However, as I sat down to watch I must admit that this was a movie that I hadn't even heard about.

And as the movie unfolded on the screen, I have to say that the first half of the movie was an inconsistent mess that just didn't really have much of any narrative connection, and I was somewhat lost as to what this was really about, since it felt like I was watching fragments of stuff shot randomly and put together. Then the second part of the movie made more sense, but it wasn't exactly top notch entertainment.

I feel like writer and director D. M. Cunningham didn't really have an aim with "The Spore" and it just felt cluttered, random and chaotic. The entire movie lacked a proper narrative and a red thread throughout it all to tie it properly together.

But I did manage to endure the entire ordeal, though the movie didn't get better as the storyline trotted on and on. So this 2021 horror movie was somewhat of a swing and a miss for me.

Visually, though, then "The Spore" definitely had some interesting visual effects and it looked rather good and realistic, so that part was working for the movie, just a shame that the storyline was such rubbish. And a real shame actually, since the concept of the storyline had so much potential.

My rating of "The Spore" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

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.

Loved the concept & use of practical effects. Unfortunately that's where it ends. The editing, effects & cinematography are solid, but everything else was poorly executed.

Script, dialogue, acting, directing, all very poor indeed. It's just one stupid character decision, & horror cliche, after another with a massive mound of awful acting on top. The synthesizer soundtrack doesn't do it any favors either. I really wanted to like this movie due to its overall concept, & I was drawn into the beginning moments, but it went downhill so quickly & never recovered. If you like practical effects & body horror then give it a go, but you've been warned.