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Spiral (2000)  link to Spiral on IMDb  

Number: 54

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IMDb Rating:
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6.3/10 (5687 votes)

Country: Japan,

Spoken Languages: Japanese

Genre(s): Horror, Drama

Director(s): Higuchinsky

Cast: Eriko Hatsune (as Kirie Goshima), Fhi Fan (as Shuichi Saito), Hinako Saeki (as Kyoko Sekino), Eun-Kyung Shin (as Chie Marayama), Keiko Takahashi (as Yukie Saito)

Medium: Original DVD, Stereo - Japanese

Subtitles: English

Storyline: In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed.

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1