Storyline

In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed.—Fred Cabral

Plot Keywords

title spoken by character, children, dead cat, guard, violence, cult film, hypodermic needle, strait jacket, handbag, survival horror, insanity, black cat, blood, medical school, anti heroine, scientist, morgue, experiment, high school, curse

Short Review

Uzumaki progresses like the life cycle of a butterfly, only the subjects begin as human beings and contort into giant snails, powerless to stop their bodies from betraying them.

Trailer

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