feels like its trying to be kiyoshi kurosawa's cure from both an aesthetic and ideas. i do think its still trying its own thing but its also stuck into repeating a lot of things from the first film and also just leave a lot of the cool things out of it like sadako calling people before they die.
its shot pretty well and i think it has a great atmosphere but thats all it really has.(watch my new film: https://boxd.it/fTRFOd )
The Spiral
Rating
1.5 (1)
Release Date
1/31/1998Runtime
97 minsOverview
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
JapaneseBudget
$2,900,000Revenue
$12,662,948Homepage
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How It Feels
Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.
A relentless supernatural thriller that traps you in a logic puzzle of death, where curiosity and obligation become as deadly as the curse itself. The film builds cumulative dread through the same mechanism that killed those before you.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingTenseParanoid
Themes
ObsessionMortalityGriefRevenge
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harm
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