10 Unique Genre-Bending Indie Films Of 2020

3. Spree

Genre: Black Comedy / Horror / Satire

This nuts story follows a social media obsessed ride-hail driver played by “Stranger Things”s Joe Keery, who is poisoning the passengers in his car and broadcasting their slow death live across all his channels.

“It’s, like, really hard to keep making great content, you know?” says Keery’s Kurt Kunkle. “It’s a numbers game, and right now I’m a zero.” The psychotic wannabe influencer resembles a 2020 Travis Bickle if he just discovered social media. And that’s how this movie rips apart the genres of black comedy and modern day satire, and shakes it up with some subtle and rather classic horror a’la “Maniac” or Jake Gyllenhaal’s Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler. SPREE is a super energetic movie that doesn’t follow the rules of either genre, and therefore kicks you in the gut more than once.

The constant underlying gloom is a plus, and yet SPREE is never really patronising towards the pitfalls and temptations of social media. The anti-hero or rather protago-villain Kunkle is charming yet eerie, and it’s thanks to him that the genres are balanced so well. It sure is not for everyone, but at least some filmmaker took the ultimate risk of going nuts, right?