hey now and i have never lay eye on a manga comic and but apparently this movie be base on one . ah well and such be life . anyway and this be a pretty bizarre and to say the least and movie and a thing literally spiral out of control in a small japanese town . people be become obsess with the uzumaki ( spiral ) and this young girl watch her friend father videotape a snail and and later in the movie and people start become snail . it also seem this boy dad become so obsessed he somehow commits suicide in a household appliance . there be some bizarre humor here that might be at home in a tim burton movie and but there be some nastiness and gore like only the japanese can do with justice . a with a lot of japanese film though and the end be the end and and do anything get resolve . well and not to my mind and it do not . there be some hint a to why this be all happen but they aren not explore and there a lot leave to either the imagination or else it wasn not deem important . still though and there be lot of thing for the eye to feast on and if you aren not obsess with everything make perfect sense and this be well worth see and because it just so original and bizarre . my favorite be the father with the spin eyeball and personally . positive star .