The Spiral
On a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost Alice her leg, Anna claims she made a pact with a mysterious Stranger to save her. But the miracle came at a price. What she believed was a single desperate bargain has in fact unleashed a spiraling… From TMDB
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60 of 88 · most liked firstRemembering the legendary Ethel Barrymore, Oscar-winning classic film, stage, and radio actress, on her 147th birthday, regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre". Beloved for roles in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, THE PARADINE CASE, MOONRISE, PINKY, and much more.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this photo of #Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience Antwerp could go with quite some movie titles, such as The Spiral Staircase (1946) or The Library 2013... #WeekFforFilms #Alphabetchallenge #Historicalbuildings
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday 🐶 The Spiral Staircase (1946) 🎯 The Last of Sheila (1973) 🍿 10 to Midnight (1983) 🌊 One-Eyed Jacks (1961) #letterboxd #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Perfect rainy afternoon movie, fun 1940s chiller The Spiral Staircase, available on YouTube. boxd.it/9sYnIf
positive · AI labelView post →Ben mentioned this briefly before the film, COBRA WOMAN was directed by Robert Siodmak, who became one of film noir’s great directors. His later films include The Killers, The Spiral Staircase and Criss Cross. #TCMParty #CobraWoman ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies this week: The Last House (2026), The Thing (2011), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), Passenger (2026), The Spiral Staircase (1946), House of Wax (1953). Watch Carrie next or knock off another vintage horror? #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky #movies #horrorsky #horrorfest
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I've had a little sleep, some TIFF and Fantastic Fest titles to put on your radar (aka my faves). Starting with what will be Italy's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, THE SPIRAL. Such a fun, wicked Faustian tale.
positive · AI labelView post →The horror film The Spiral Staircase (1946) recreates what it was like to watch a movie circa 1906 (though in something of an anachronism the movie being shown is the Sands of Dee from 1912)
neutral · AI labelView post →My #Noirvember film #15, Robert Siodmak’s THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE. Mute housemaid is stalked by a serial killer who is terrorising the small town she works in. Incredibly atmospheric, beautifully shot, genuinely suspenseful film that also functions as a proto slasher.
positive · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase is an excellent film that I hadn't heard of until I started this year's challenge. Movie 046/100 #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #Filmsky #Horrorsky #MutantFam
positive · AI labelView post →Movie 34- The Spiral Staircase (1946) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#BOTD 1923 Rhonda Fleming: American film and television actress and singer. Acted in more than 40 films and renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), The Spiral Staircase (1946) Out of the Past (1947)
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering the understated Dorothy McGuire, Oscar/Emmy-nominated actress on her 110th birthday, acclaimed for her roles in classic film, TV, and theatre such as CLAUDIA, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKYLN, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, FRIENDLY PERSUASION, RICH MAN POOR MAN, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 239/1000: THE SPIRAL ROAD This psychological adventure-drama film starring Rock Hudson explores a young physician with a selfish, prideful character working in 1930s Indonesia who must learn to profess belief in a higher spiritual being and accept help from others.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase is a surprisingly perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →Immediately had to write about NO REST FOR THE WICKED, a hauntingly beautiful and primally Queer vampire film. Neck and bitten neck (and nipple) with The Spiral for top of Fantastic Fest for me so far! cinapse.net/2026/09/fant...
positive · AI labelView post →70) THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946) Recommended by @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →I thought I was done bidding on The Spiral Jetty fifteen years ago, but now a vintage 16mm print of Robert Smithson's film is coming up for auction. greg.org/archive/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →I will be good as the rest of #FantasticFest goes on, but this makes a good starting point. Seen several good films so far but still have special spots for both THE SPIRAL and INTO THE SKY. One hit me on a funny & dark level I needed & the other is a "curse" film I very much needed in my life.
positive · AI labelView post →Paolo Strippoli's stylish and subversively twisty chiller THE SPIRAL casts Jasmine Trinca as a Real Housewife of Bari and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as the stranger who claims her soul. Delectably nasty fun about the steep price of perfection. #Venice2026 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a very good film, with great performances from the cast. Well plotted, engaging, philosophical, and the effects were pretty good for the time too. A worthy choice. Some other great films from 1946: - It's A Wonderful Life - The Big Sleep - The Spiral Staircase - Great Expectations
positive · AI labelView post →18. Doraemon: Nobita and The Spiral City (1997) 7/10 I found this movie to be pretty boring in the beginning. However, the final climax was very engaging but didn’t change my opinion of the overall movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →on the Spiral Alice playlist there has been consistently on and off a song by Sara Bareilles called “If I Dare” from the movie Battle of the Sexes which was a biopic (starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King) covering the famous Battle of the Sexes tennis match where BJK beat Bobby Riggs. 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →This is, in terms of atmosphere, reminding me a lot of The Spiral Staircase (1946), a film that kind of has a similar problem in that there's a killer and there's a distinct lack of suspects (one a blatant red herring?). But like that film, it's NAILING that stormy feel. #TheFilmCrowd
neutral · AI labelView post →After club work around LA & Las Vegas, The Fydallions were spotted by Columbia Records A&R man Gary Usher. Columbia signed them… but asked for a name change. The new name came from Robert Siodmak’s 1946 gothic/noir suspense film The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire. #OneHitWondered
neutral · AI labelView post →Forgot to post my 1946 February movie pick from last night: THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent and Ethel Barrymore. It opened this week in 1946 at the Byrd and State in Richmond.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Spiral Staircase (2025 Movie Thread, #461), #Horror365Challenge (#354) #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked the traps in the Spiral Saw movie. Maybe a little too flashy in their photography, but I did like how abstract those were, like it wasn't too clear if they would spare you if you passed the test, or if they were doable at all.
positive · AI labelView post →Fantastic Fest 2026: THE SPIRAL (2026) @yoadriantorres.bsky.social on Paolo Strippoli’s tremendous film that examines the price a family must pay to get what they want. #FantasticFest www.neonsplatter.com/reviews/fant...
neutral · AI labelView post →His canon is a viewing list for any authentic study of the genre. His most notable film noirs include Phantom Lady, The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, The Spiral Staircase, The Killers, The Dark Mirror, Cry of the City, Criss Cross, Clash By Night and many, more!! p2/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Man in movie theater getting increasingly angry “WHEN DO THEY GET TO THE SPIRAL CUTS”
unlabelledView post →Movie 21/100 #100HorrorMoviesin92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky My ★★★½ review of The Spiral Staircase on Letterboxd boxd.it/aQ8eN1
unlabelledView post →The Spiral Staircase was the pick for me and @andrewpope.bsky.social for movie night last night. Proper slasher. Gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. On my part, due to the badassery of Ethel Barrymore. #horror
unlabelledView post →You can’t help but be drawn into THE SPIRAL. My review of the best film I’ve seen so far at this year’s #fantasticfest over at @cinapse.bsky.social cinapse.net/2026/09/fant...
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching: THE SPIRAL (2026) #FantasticFest
unlabelledView post →Starting The Spiral Staircase for movie 39. #100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky #movies
unlabelledView post →In the summer of 1971, ABC ran a four-week series of The Movie Classics of David O Selznick (Intermezzo, The Spiral Staircase, Portrait of Jennie, Made for Each Other). I was about to turn 13, and this was very educational for me.
unlabelledView post →233) The Spiral (1998) I have seen worse movies. Several, actually. But the thing is that those all actually had things happening. Even if I hate the Saw Spiral and Dark Fate, they had things happening in them. This movie is worthless. There's not a single thing of worth in it. I am empty.
unlabelledView post →#TIFF Movie #5 - The Spiral - 5/10 I dunno, man. After the way Obsession blew-up last year after its screening at Midnight Madness, I don't know that they needed to schedule yet *another* Monkey's Paw type horror, albeit more of a psychological one. I had high hopes for this one nonetheless, but ...
unlabelledView post →Italian director Paolo Strippoli’s horror-thriller THE SPIRAL (L'ESTRANEA), which debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival yesterday and will go into wide Italian release on October 8, is partially holiday-set. The story of a family willing to sell their souls in order to appear perfect.
unlabelledView post →The Spiral Staircase - By the final act, it becomes a claustrophobic and tense thriller. boxd.it/fun9iJ #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Rank and File After Dark Classic Gothic Horror/Thriller and proof that a 1940s film could go hard. #251 The Spiral Staircase reconrank.com/movies/spira... #Horrorsky #HorrorMovies #Horror #Movies #Filmsky
unlabelledView post →"A scintillating noir thriller, filled with vital imagery and iconic horror motifs, The Spiral Staircase is terrific example of what the genre’s golden age could achieve." - Rodney Twelftree www.fernbyfilms.com/2018/10/05/m...
unlabelledView post →I love film noir like “The Spiral Staircase” or “Double Indemnity” so want to see this now: letterboxd.com/film/death-i...
unlabelledView post →Post a 1940s movie that starts with the letter S #40sMoviesAtoZ The Spiral Staircase (1946)
unlabelledView post →I Have Proof: Found footage movie for the found footage sickos. The Spiral. Total day ruiner. Highly recommend. Really liked when the director brought out the dank Italian horror.
unlabelledView post →Seeing the 8:00 pm “The Spiral” at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in auditorium 4 as movie 6 of Fantastic Fest 2026 and movie 214 of 2026
unlabelledView post →It is time for "The Spiral" I have lost the plot on what description blurb goes with what movie at this point
unlabelledView post →Now watching Fantastic Fest Film #7: The Spiral
unlabelledView post →Celebrating the warm & wonderful actress Dorothy McGuire (1916-2001), lost #OTD at age 85. She started on stage & radio in the 30s & retired in 1990 with just 28 film roles, including THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946), THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954), and GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT (1947, Oscar-nominated).
unlabelledView post →Working my way through the Universal Monsters canon, and I am very excited for this one. I watched the brother Siodmak's movie The Spiral Staircase and thought it was incredible so I have faith this'll be very good, if Curt is anywhere as skilled.
unlabelledView post →Busan International Film Festival unveils its full 2026 lineup featuring Hope, The Spiral and a genre-heavy midnight program — a must-watch selection for horror and genre fans. Dive into the highlights and what to watch this year on the blog. wix.to/NHR327s #BusanIFF #FilmNews #HorrorMovies
unlabelledView post →Everything I have learned about the Sex Purge movie has been against my will and causes me to invoke the Spiral of Contempt.
unlabelledView post →The Spiral Staircase is a top shelf gothic horror film with some incredible atmosohere #horror #film
unlabelledView post →I also discovered her work via the movies! The Spiral Staircase (1946) is based on her book Some Must Watch (later republished under the same name as the movie). Delightfully creepy.
unlabelledView post →Yeah the Spiral Staircase was extremely melodramatic, maybe it made for a good movie/show in its time but the heroine was annoying and the plot was just about her being scared in a house with unlikeable people. I actually got to meet Ian Rankin 20+ years ago and he was very nice!
unlabelledView post →At first, I was thinking this might have been your first post I wrote to Sorry about my handprints on your jiggly maiden tits But don’t worry, Brie it’s only paint, I think This is a reference to the Spiral movie I mentioned yesterday Cool how it fits when today I happened to revisit this post
unlabelledView post →At first, I was thinking this might have been your first post I wrote to Sorry about my handprints on your jiggly maiden tits But don’t worry, Brie it’s only paint, I think This is a reference to the Spiral movie I mentioned yesterday Cool how it fits when today I happened to revisit this post
unlabelledView post →Part of Theatre 62, TV movie versions of classic films. Seven or so, I know Elizabeth Montgomery & Lillian Gish did The Spiral Staircase. James Mason was Joan’s leading man. I could swear I watched it on YouTube; all I can find now is the first scene (including Joan’s “Last night I dreamt .. “)
unlabelledView post →Shit, that's The Spiral Staircase (1946)!! This movie traveled to the future!
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