Servo issue, won't go into negative range

Question

I'm trying to create a small laser "turret" with x-axis control. The arduino receives input through IR sensor. I'm having a problem where my servo will preform my up and reset function(moves and prints as intended), but When i preform the down function the servo does not move. I believe the function is executing (it outputs angle to LCD and text to serial monitor) but there is no movement. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

#include <IRremote.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
#include <Servo.h>

int IRPIN = 3;
int angle = 0;
int test = 0;
IRrecv irrecv(IRPIN);
decode_results results;
Servo spinnything;
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x27, 2, 1, 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, POSITIVE);

void setup()
{
    irrecv.enableIRIn();
    lcd.begin(16, 2);
    lcd.backlight();
    spinnything.attach(5);
    spinnything.write(angle);
    lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
    lcd.print("WARNING");
    lcd.setCursor(2, 1);
    lcd.print("!!!LASER!!!");
    delay(1500);
    lcd.clear();
}

void loop()
{
    if (irrecv.decode(&results)) {
        irrecv.resume();
    }
    if (results.value == 0xE172C837) {
        up();
        results.value = 0x00000000;
    }
    if (results.value == 0xE17228D7) {
        down();
        results.value = 0x00000000;
    }if (results.value == 0xE1724CB3) {
        reset();
        results.value = 0x00000000;
    }
    lcd.setCursor(0,0);
    delay(10);
}

void up() {
    if (angle < 180) {
        angle = angle + 18;
        spinnything.write(angle);
        lcd.clear();
        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
        lcd.print("Current Angle");
        lcd.setCursor(3, 1);
        lcd.print("=");
        lcd.setCursor(5, 1);
        lcd.print(angle);
        Serial.print("up");
    }
}
void down() {
    if (angle > -180) {
        angle = angle - 18;
        spinnything.write(angle);
        lcd.clear();
        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
        lcd.print("Current Angle");
        lcd.setCursor(3, 1);
        lcd.print("=");
        lcd.setCursor(5, 1);
        lcd.print(angle);
        Serial.print("down");
    }
}
int reset() {
    angle = 0;
    spinnything.write(angle);
    lcd.clear();
    lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
    lcd.print("Current Angle");
    lcd.setCursor(3, 1);
    lcd.print("=");
    lcd.setCursor(5, 1);
    lcd.print(angle);
    Serial.print("reset");

}

Answer 1

First of all Servo.write(int) takes a value ranging from 0 to 180 degrees. Then, servos themselves can only move from 0 to 180 usually. Some can do more, some can do less. But regardless of how much a servo actually moves, you should expect that doing Servo.write(0) the servo would rotate all the way to one side, doing Servo.write(180) it should go to the other side, doing Servo.write(90) it should stay in the middle.

Also, lcd.setCursor(5, 1); is basically useless as the lcd driver itself would advance the cursor as the previous characters are written. Just do lcd.print("= "); if you want an additional space between the equals symbol and the number