to be honest and i think this movie would be a japanese drama . i be dead wrong . this movie be base of the popular japanese anime novel of the same name . it tell the story of a town that be curse by the uzumaki or the spiral in english . little by little the towns resident start to slowly become dangerously and violently obsess with anything to do with spiral and some of the resident start to actually turn into living thing the actually have some sort of spiral within them such a a snail . the movie be one giant and random and acid trip twist with romance and drama . sort of like a twisted drama . what make this movie disturbing be the way that some of the people be obsess with the spiral . for example represent one of the dad have a garage full of house hold object with spiral incorporate into them and one girl take her extremely long hair and tease to an insanely huge spiral like style and one kid slowly transform into a human snail and one man could twist his body into a spiral shape and one woman attempt to cut her ear open to obtain the cochlea inside and one teen run over himself so that he could be twist around a car tire and one kid stuff himself into a washer so he could become a spiral . another very disturb aspect of this very well syndicate be the atmospheric tone and the style in which this movie be shoot . the camera angle add to the psychotic and twisted story and in other word and a very good cinematography . the overall coloring of this picture make for a somewhat demented story . the coloring be a blend of lime green and yellow and a little orange and the special effect with some of the spiral be outstanding . however and like many japanese film and this one have an undertone of forbidden love and romance between a girl and a boy . however and with all the spiral and strange happen go on in the town it be hard to keep up with the relationship of the two teen . but and in some way it be very irrelevant and more like a second hand story that have nothing to do with the actual story of the spiral obsessed town . overall and i would recommend this film to anybody who like vastly different and bizarre foreign film . it have just enough wackiness and insanity and it touch me .