The Spore

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!

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.

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...

Top 5 worst movies of all time that I've seen. Confusing is an understatement. Very jumbled up it's like a handful of stories that are linked due to the spores.

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.