Saturday, June 1, 2013

Spiral (2007)



This is the little film that couldn't. Predictable from the very beginning, Spiral tells the story of a man tormented by nightmares of having done something bad – something that smells like homicide… and after one and a half hours that feel like labor pains we finally realize that the smell – or the stink, to say it properly – is real. Adam Green and Joel David Moore are credited as directors, with Moore doubling as the actor in charge of Mason, the main character

Mason is a shy but competent insurance telemarketer by day and oil painter by night, a loner who is afraid of human contact and whose only friend is Berkeley, his office boss (Zachary Levi), a friendship that can only be the contraption of a mediocre script. Add to this the stage entrance of Amber (Amber Tamblyn), a perky and attractive young woman who works nearby that, unexpectedly of course, is also attracted to this social outcast who, as the movie plot thickens, we come to know that has more success with the ladies that the infamous college boy Van Wilder, a good luck that he uses to turn the unwise girls into his victims after he paints their portraits.

Though Spiral feels more like a waste of time than anything else, I have to concede that it succeeds in avoiding the staple serial killer gore and in allowing the neurotic histrionics of Joel David Moore run wildly free. My advice to the movie lovers: watch it only as a last resort. 



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