Spree

Kurt Kunkle is a young Southern California rideshare driver who has spent nearly a decade failing to build an online brand as @KurtsWorld96. He's bitterly jealous of Bobby, a successful influencer he once babysat. To finally go viral, Kurt outfits his Spree rideshare car with multiple cameras and launches a livestreamed content series he calls 'The Lesson,' promising to teach viewers how to become famous.

The lesson is murder. Kurt stocks his car with poisoned bottled water, encourages his first passenger to drink, and kills him off-camera. His stream has almost no viewers; the only one watching is Bobby, who assumes it's staged. Undeterred, Kurt continues, framing each killing as a segment in a show. He picks up Jessie Adams, a stand-up comedian with a real following, and Mario, an aggressive club promoter. Jessie sees through Kurt instantly and exits unimpressed. Kurt murders Mario and continues his rounds, killing more passengers through poison and direct violence.

Desperate to piggyback on a bigger audience, Kurt drives to Bobby's house and demands he share the stream. Bobby refuses and mocks Kurt on his own livestream to his millions of followers. Enraged, Kurt kills Bobby on camera, broadcasting the murder through Bobby's feed. Bobby's viewers, assuming it's a prank, stay watching — giving Kurt the viral audience he's craved. He takes Bobby's gun and equipment and continues. Off-stream, Kurt also kills his own mother; his strained relationship with his washed-up DJ father Kris is presented as part of his delusion.

Jessie performs her stand-up that night, using her set to critique influencer culture, and smashes her phone onstage. Later, drunk, she orders a ride through a different app called GoGo — not realizing Kurt has killed that driver and taken the car. She gets in. Kurt reveals himself and taunts her, his audience egging him on. Jessie garrotes him with a charger cable from the back seat; Kurt beats her unconscious and drives her to his house for a grand finale. While he fumbles with a malfunctioning camera, Jessie wakes, takes the driver's seat, and uses the car as a weapon. Kris arrives, discovers his murdered wife, and is shot dead by Kurt on stream. Jessie drives the car into the house, pinning Kurt, then bashes his head in with his own phone, killing him on the still-rolling livestream.

Kurt's viewers pressure Jessie to take a selfie with his corpse; she complies, and the image goes viral, making her a national celebrity despite her prior disdain for online fame. The film closes on a meta twist: what we have watched is presented as a fan-edited compilation of Kurt's streams, circulated on 4chan and Reddit under the title Spree, where he is preserved as a perverse folk anti-hero even as Jessie is publicly lauded for stopping him.