Spiral Review

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Culture
‘The Spiral’ Review: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Is The Devil In Disguise In Paolo Strippoli’s Fiendishly Fun Horror-Thriller – Venice Film Festival
There will be people wondering why Paolo Strippoli’s unashamedly commercial horror-thriller The Spiral is in Competition and not in one of the festival’s many increasingly hard-to-navigate sidebars. But thank God it is; with a tsunami of documentary titles and a bunch of reality-based features that effectively make us all complicit in the rise of neo-fascism […]
Deadline44 min ago
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World
‘The Spiral’ Review: Paolo Strippoli’s Lurid Faustian Tragedy Shores Up His Reputation as Italy’s New Horror Virtuoso
We don’t get a close enough look to see if the Devil actually wears Prada, but regardless, in Paolo Strippoli’s new horror romp “The Spiral,” she’s very chicly turned out indeed: Cool, crisp and collected in a tightly belted camel trenchcoat, hair pristinely bobbed and lips perfectly rouged, wielding a cigarette like a laser pointer. […]
Variety2 hr ago