FilmPG-13Psychological Survival

Spiral2007

Name: Spiral
Genre: Psychological, Survival
Released: 2007-01-27
Rating: 6

Directed by Adam Green, Joel David Moore

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.3Rotten Tomatoes 50%Metacritic 40TMDB 6.1

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Year

2007

Runtime

90 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,500,000

Domestic

$3,072

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination

The premise

A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.

Horror Vault's take

A deeply isolated young man navigates the world through a rigid routine of telemarketing calls and solitary painting, his carefully maintained walls beginning to crack when a buoyant coworker draws him out of his shell. What starts as an unlikely friendship grows increasingly charged as his compulsion to paint her portrait awakens something dark within him. Haunted by echoes of his own troubled past, the line between connection and catastrophe narrows with each brushstroke. This quiet, character-driven chiller builds its dread from the inside out.

Content: Depictions Of Psychological Instability, Themes Of Trauma, Disturbing Ideation