I recently watched The Spore (2021) on Tubi. The storyline follows a small town as an outbreak begins infecting people, turning them into violent killers who pass on the infection through their attacks. A group of survivors bands together, attempting to fortify their position and find a way out of their dire situation.

The film is written and directed by Matt Cunningham (3 Demons) and stars Jean Ann Boshoven (Chasing Zombies), Haley Heslip (3 Demons), and Jackson Ezinga (13 Demons).

There are aspects of The Spore that I genuinely enjoyed. The settings are well-chosen for the premise, and the cinematography is clean, with background sound effects that perfectly complement the content. The acting is solid across the board. The infected…

Of everyone I follow on here, I'm the first person to watch this. Doesn't really surprise me, I found it in the depths of Prime, and it had a 2.7, which is kinda my goto for these shitty prime movies i watch. The first 15 minutes or so were solid and did a good job with the world building. But then then it kinda lost everything after that. The time spent building the world was for nothing because every character acted as if they were in a different movie, just the stupidest fucking decisions. The acting was also god awful, the shit script definitely didn't help matters though. The anthology-esque structure just made the whole thing feel empty, we had…

The Spore was a pandemic style horror that infected me with boredom.

This was a predictable at times movie with characters acting the same way. However, I would like to say the effects were pretty cool looking. Camera shots for much of the runtime was solid. Often echoed to other movies and directors like Romero, Craven, and Hooper.

Even though it was low budget, it did work out a story that reflected humanity during a pandemic pretty well. Sadly the pacing and runtime doesn't give much to really enjoy. It dragged too much on scenes where it was almost a given what would happen to the character.

As much as I applaud this director venture into this directorial debut of…