Spiral (1998)

Original title

らせん

Directed by

Jōji Iida

Genre

horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 167 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor investigates a series of deaths linked to a cursed videotape. He discovers a deadly chain of events that connects the victims.

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What happens

Spiral (Japanese: らせん, Hepburn: Rasen) is a 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film and a sequel to Ring (1998). It is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel of the same title by Koji Suzuki. It is titled The Spiral (stylized as the Spiral) in English on the Japanese poster and video packaging, and it was previously released in North America as Rasen (a transliteration of the Japanese title) and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Philippines as The Spiral. Ring and its sequel Spiral were released in Japan at the same time. The studio hoped this would increase revenues, because the Ring story was already a successful novel and television film. The two films shared a few cast members and had the same production team, but different directors and screenwriters; Spiral was written and directed by Jōji Iida whereas Ring was written by Hiroshi Takahashi and directed by Hideo Nakata. After their release, Ring became an enormous success while Spiral floundered, quickly becoming the "forgotten sequel". Takahashi and Nakata were later recruited to produce another sequel, Ring 2 (1999), which replaced Spiral as the sequel to Ring, not based on Suzuki's works, and thus ultimately ignores the story of Spiral. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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