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Spree (2020)

★ 6.4 · 545 ratings on TMDB

Murder is trending.

Spree poster★ 6.4

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

DirectorEugene Kotlyarenko
CastA.J. Del Cueto, Andy Faulkner, David Arquette, Honor Levy, Jessalyn Gilsig, Joe Keery
GenresComedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Spree keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fame, media, violence, obsession, culture.

zero-distanceUSfamemediaviolenceobsessionculture
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Same rung, same subject

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Shared director or cast.

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