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Still, the balance of mystery to horror to character-rooted social commentary is impressive in John Poliquin and Colin MinihanвЂs screenplay. ItвЂ™s slow-burn horror at its finest, which makes the cheaper jump scares frustratingly out of place. There is so much to appreciate in Spiral, in particular the well-wrought dark atmosphere of dread that director Kurtis David Harder achieves through Bradley StuckelвЂs well-thought out cinematography and Avery KentisвЂ™ ominous score.

However, his dread isnвЂ™t just because of a few homophobic micro-aggressions, something more is afoot. Though the initial reception is warm, especially from their new neighbors Tiffany ( Chandra West) and Marshal ( Lochlyn Munro), Malik feels the dread of being the one different person-in his case, a queer black man-in a town. Spiral follows Malik ( Jeffrey Boyer-Chapman) and his boyfriend Aaron ( Ari Cohen) as they move from the big city to a small suburban town to live out their dreams of a вЂњnormalвЂќ existence along with AaronвЂ™s 16-year-old daughter Kayla ( Jennifer Laporte). That feeling is what Spiral, a new horror streaming on Shudder, taps into.

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For some of us, living day to day is a horror movie in itself. вЂњPeople donвЂ™t changeвЂ¦ they just get better at hiding how they feel.вЂќ It only makes sense that horror, a genre about one of the most primal human emotions, is one of the best grounds to explore social issues-as recently as Get Out or as far back as Night of the Living Dead. ChloГ© Zhao makes NomadlandвЂs melancholic but hopeful story of nomads traversing the American West a stunningly complex character study of life on the margins of society.

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