10 Horror Movie Concepts That Should NEVER Work (But Do)

“Hurr durr phones are bad and Thomas Edison was a witch,” the old saying goes. Often movies like this have an air of snobbery from older generations; these people are convinced that everyone under 30 is an idiot incapable of independent thought, glued to their phone with one brain cell knocking about in their head.

Hating technology is not a personality and ‘social media make me bad’ is not a plot. More often than not concepts built around this idea fail miserably, not able to create a tone that is neither patronising nor ignorant. Luckily for Spree though, they managed to skirt around the pitfalls and deliver a social-media centric film that doesn’t make me cringe into the next century.

With Joe Keery playing our unhinged main man, we’re taken on a wild ride that sees him become a taxi-driver serial killer. Jealous of other people’s followings and wanting attention for himself, he constantly streams his activity to an audience of disbelieving fans.

It has some good comedy beats, funny performances and decently bloody kills. With someone less charismatic in the lead maybe it wouldn’t have worked so well, but Stranger Things’ golden boy really came through this time.