Same-sex couple Malik and Aaron (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Ari Cohen, respectfully) move into a new house out in the suburbs with their daughter Kayla (Jennifer LaPorte) in the film Spiral (2019). They are looking for a place of peace and quiet to raise their family and Malik hopes to jump start his writing project. It’s not long before Malik discovers that there is a shady part to the seemingly quiet neighborhood when he discovers that someone has broken into his house and painted racial slurs on their walls. He is able to clean up the vandalism before his partner or daughter can see it but it prompts him to get a security system to the confusion of Aaron.
Soon Malik starts to discover other strange things going on
especially in regards to his neighbor Marshal (Lochlyn Munro) who claims to be
progressive in his thoughts about same-sex relationships but hides something
deeper and darker. When Malik starts
discovering spiral patterns everywhere he soon comes to conclusion that Marshal
and some of the other members of his neighborhood might be part of some
cult. Now he has to convince his partner
of the danger before it is too late but the growing suspicion and paranoia may
be too much for Aaron to understand.
The thing I love about this film is the fact that the
relationships all seem authentic and how you would expect people to act in the
situation. It’s a mystery that also is a
story about relationships and how paranoia can turn deadly and dangerous. Written by Colin Minihan and John Poliquin
and directed by Kurtis David Harder this is a very effective and suspenseful film
even if it lacks the gore.
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