I am not the first — and I won’t be the last — to retrofit pre-pandemic imagined stories to these unprecedented times. But the grief and guts of Spontaneous are uniquely suited to 2021.
In writer-director Brian Duffield’s dark romantic comedy, released to limited fanfare last October amid social distancing restrictions, seniors at Covington High School start to explode. Literally. It’s the old spontaneous human combustion myth, reimagined as a vehicle for some light horror in an offbeat coming-of-age story.
The film explores consuming existential dread through quirky teen angst (a tried and true combo, if there’s ever been one), but with a sadness and sweetness individual to this story. Read more…
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