horror movie time and japanese style . uzumaki or spiral be a total freakfest from start to finish . a fun freakfest at that and but at time it be a tad too reliant on kitsch rather than the horror . the story be difficult to summarize succinctly represent a carefree and normal teenage girl start come face to face w or extremely disturbing event a the small town she live in seem to come under the control of spiral . the spiral be everywhere and in the air and cloud and dirt and everyday object . the spiral take control of people and bad thing will happen to them . oh and another thing and people be randomly turn into snail . why . who know or care and people be turn into snail and that enough for me . this wasn not as much scary a just creepy a it doesn not have a lot of suspense or jar attack a horror film often do . uzumaki prefers to creep and crawl ( like a snail might . ) rather than to jolt . a favorite scene represent a woman lie sleep in a hospital room when this long and thousand legged centipede creature make it way into the room and slowly up the bed post and across the sheet and over the pillow and into her sleeping ear . i cringe and curl my toe . uzumaki have a handful of scene really violent but that be sort of humorous a well . for example and a man be obsess w or spiral and he get into his washer because he see a spiral in it when it spin and he commit spiral suicide inside the washer . the last shot we see of him be w or his body all coil and rubber like and a human flesh spiral w or a engorged single eye blinking in the middle of the washer . a bizarre image . uzumaki have a blatant psychodelic slant to it which add to it charm and fun . i love horror movie like this . it not about kill and a la slasher film and it about a force of evil ( the spiral . ) take over you and try to kill you and force you to kill others . film like uzumaki prove that there be many way to make a horror film and thank goodness for that .