Directors: Adam Green, Joel Moore
Writers: Jeremy Danial Boreing, Joel Moore
Cast: Joel Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi, Tricia Helfer, David Muller
A reclusive telemarketer, whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. But as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction.
'From the director of Hatchet comes a totally different thriller. Mason a lonely jazz loving painter played expertly by Joel Moore phones his work mate Berkeley (TV's 'Chuck' Zachary Levi) late in the night telling him he thinks he's done something seriously wrong. Berkeley passes it off as one of Mason’s typical day dreams and tells him to get some sleep and he'll see him at work. Mason starts to reveal he's met a woman at work Amber and we see their relationship slowly build as he paints her. Only Berkeley believes his sketches and Amber are just a figment of his imagination brought on because Mason’s been slipping into ever more reclusive behaviour since the murder of his mother some years ago by his own father. Its a real rare gem of a psychological thriller this, with shades of Hitchcock era about it and a bit of a Fightclub/Jacobs Ladder "is it isn’t it really happening" vibe thrown in for good measure. Sci-fi geeks will spot Battlestar Galactica's chief female cylon 6 'Tricia Helfer' as well. Enjoyable though anyone expecting the same hyper violent high action feel of Green’s earlier Hatchet may find Spiral too slow and brooding.'
(7 out of 10)
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