Draft:Every Single Someone

Every Single Someone is a 2021 American found footage horror film written and directed by Samuel Marko. It follows a group of college students who hire a contract killer.

Plot
The film opens with cell phone footage of a college couple, Lee and Arlis, on a date in downtown Denver. Months later, a camera crew is in Arlis’ college dorm room documenting a fight between the two students that concludes with Arlis breaking up with Lee. Distraught, Lee returns to his dorm room, where his friends Kendrick, Damon, and Owen comfort him before going to a house party.

Meanwhile, an unnamed woman negotiates with a contract killer to injure a local drug dealer who has been selling drugs to her son. The contract killer, Amos, rides his motorcycle to the drug dealer's apartment and beats him, then returns to his own apartment.

Lee decides that the best way to get revenge on Arlis for breaking up with him is to hire a contract killer. After convincing his friends, they search the dark web and make contact with Amos. Amos meets with the boys in a local park, and agrees to kill Arlis.

Amos sneaks into the college dormitories at night with the camera crew. The crew shuts off the camera so that it doesn’t make noise, then Amos kills Arlis in her dorm room. Amos returns to his apartment and appears upset. Lee talks to Damon about one of Damon’s past relationships.

After the murder, Lee and his friends appear unbothered by the event. Using homemade masks, they rob Damon’s ex-girlfriend and use her money to go out to a restaurant. Later, Lee eats cereal and watches news coverage of Arlis’ murder. He goes to the campus gym and arranges to adopt a puppy from a local animal shelter. When the puppy arrives at the dorms, Lee and his friends use a hammer to kill it.

Amos becomes upset watching news coverage of the murder and calls Lee, but Lee dismisses him. While listening to loud music in their dorm, a resident assistant tells Lee and his friends to turn the music down. The group breaks into the resident assistant’s room and beats him. Later, Lee and Kendrick watch television, and Kendrick questions their actions. Lee and Damon buy liquor and attend another house party. Lee begins kissing a girl from the party, before he bites out her tongue and masturbates.

At Amos’ apartment, Amos and the camera crew are interrupted by a private investigator breaking down the door. Amos questions the private investigator at gunpoint before shooting him. Amos pours gasoline over his belongings and leaves on his motorcycle. In a restaurant bathroom, three more men attack Amos, and he shoots them. Amos is later shown talking on a payphone, where an unknown voice chastises him.

At the dorms, Lee reads a note written by Amos and calls him. The two agree that a confrontation is inevitable. Lee and his friends prepare by taping plastic wrap to the inside of their dorm room and acquiring hand-to-hand weapons. Amos arrives at the dormitories to kill the boys. He is wounded by Damon, but kills him, Kendrick, and Owen with guns before injuring Lee’s leg. Lee crawls to a window as Amos approaches him, before the film stock apparently runs out. We later see an injured Amos walking through the campus while police vehicles surround him.

Release
Every Single Someone was released during the Covid-19 pandemic on June 25, 2021.

Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Michael Talbot-Haynes of Film Threat wrote that “Every Single Someone is some strong stuff and should be sought out by connoisseurs of dangerous and upsetting art.” Anton Bitel of Projected Figures called Every Single Someone "ultimately an allegorical film, about the dysfunctional male bonds, overlooked, accepted or even tacitly encouraged within the organs of America’s hierarchies and institutions"

Evan Dossey of Midwest Film Journal was critical of the film, calling it “a shallow and frustrating attempt to tell a story about a very real problem.”