The Spore

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!