Review of Spiral

Spiral (I) (2019)
2/10
Major plotholes and illogical decisions
29 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It just tries so hard to be clever but is riddled with errors in logic.

While the main character tries to convince his partner that something is weird going on, he somehow fails to mention that someone broke into their house on three occasions. One, to write the homophobic slur on the wall, two, steal their personal belongings (photo) and then a third time when he caught someone red handed inside their house. But no he decides to keep it all a secret, endangering a man and his daughter. Just totally irresponsible and completely unbelievable. Could you imagine if someone broke into your house repeatedly and you decided the best thing to do was to hide it from your partner and his daughter? Just insanely bad writing, no one would make those decisions in reality.

But then again, if he'd have just notified someone of three separate break-ins then they'd have no doubt just moved away and there would be no movie. So I guess that's the purpose of the idiotic writing there.

It is a just a painfully long build up to one or two shocking scenes at the end if you manage to stay awake until that point. The fact that people even attempt to compare this movie to 'Get Out' and 'Hereditary' is laughable and frankly insulting to those two genuinely good horror films. The potential meaningfulness in its symbolism regarding homophobia and racism is just completely overshadowed by how poorly written this was.

Sincerely, don't waste your time with this garbage.
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