Spears is an Irish neo-noir thriller written and directed by Gerard Lough and starring Aidan O'Sullivan, Bobby Callaway, Nigel Brennan, Michael Parle, Yalda Shahidi, Rebecca Rose Flynn and Thomas Sharkey.

[1] Eager to try a different genre after the horror/science fiction film Night People, Lough chose neo-noir with a story that would be inspired by various paranoid thrillers of the 1970s while updating it with modern-day technology and themes.

[2] The film's title is taken from the Emily Brontë quote: "Treachery and violence are spears pointed by both ends; they would those who resort to them worse than their enemies".

Speaking about the film's theme of revenge, Lough said: "I was keen to weave it into a story that would work as a cautionary tale that asks the audience that it may be natural to want to get your own back, but do two wrongs ever make a right?

That's why I love the neo-noir genre; things are never simply black and white, moral ambiguity abounds... like real life.

You could be uncharitable and just assume I’m a morbid bastard fixated on the dark side of human nature and a society where decency and fairness seem in short supply.

"[4] Filming began in Donegal, Ireland where it made use of a high number of locations such as Slieve League, Meentycat wind farm and Leenan Fort.

In an interview with RTE, Lough remembered "I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel completely out of my depth on the first night in Florence, Italy.

But I quickly pulled myself together when I remembered George Lucas felt the same way when he started shooting in Tunisia for the first time on the first Star Wars film.

A music video using footage from the film was made for the song Counterfeit by Le Groupe Fantastique and was released on 1 July 2019.