Spiral is Definitely no Hatchet
One of the trailers that was shown before a couple of the movies at Toronto After Dark this year was for the upcoming movie Spiral.
Spiral reunites Hatchet alums writer/director Adam Green and star Joel David Moore (Dodgeball, Art School Confidential and the upcoming James Cameron epic Avatar). For this film, Green and Moore expanded their artistic reach by co-directing the film. In addition to co-directing and starring, Moore also shares screenplay credit with Jeremy Danial Boreing, and producing credit with Boreing and Cory Neal.
Moore plays Mason, a reclusive artist who finds new life in the eyes of his latest subject Amber (Amber Tamblyn, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Grudge 2, “Joan of Arcadia”). Wrestling with inner demons waiting to surface, he grapples with a past that not only haunts him, but may come to haunt her as well. Zachary Levi (“Chuck,” “Less Than Perfect”), and Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”) co-star in the spellbinding psychodrama.
Spiral has already received numerous accolades. Most recently, the film was awarded Silver Medal in the AMD Next Wave competition at September¹s Fantastic Fest in Austin (where two years ago, Hatchet started its journey to the big screen), as well as the Golden Vision Award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Spiral was also been selected for exhibition at this year¹s Montreal¹s Fantasia Film Festival and London FrightFest. Aint-It-Cool News gave it 4 1/2 stars out of 5, while FrightFest called the film “A Hitch-cocktail of precision directing, deft pacing, startling imagery and clean style.”
I wasn’t the biggest fan of Hatchet. It was a bit too much of big dumb fun horror for me to really get into. Spiral is not what I was expecting from Adam Green as a second movie. It looks creepy and suspenseful. I have a feeling this is going to be the style of horror movie that I really like. Dumb fun horror movies have their place but nothing beats real creepiness.
Source: Press Release for Anchor Bay
You must be logged in to post a comment.