Uzumaki
Directed by:
HiguchinskyCinematography:
小林元Composer:
Keiichi SuzukiCast:
Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Eun-kyeong Shin, Ren Ōsugi, Tarō Suwa, Keiko Takahashi, Denden, Sadao Abe, 手塚とおる, 堀内正美, 佐伯日菜子, Kyoko Hikami, Anri Katsu, Yuni TakimotoPlots(1)
The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell. The horror manifesting itself in different ways, its geometric pattern giving snails, food, and even the swirl of fingerprints an eerie quality that drives the inhabitants of Kurozou gradually insane. Kirie, a young schoolgirl, is the first to notice the strange behavior in friends and neighbors and is powerless to prevent the obsession that is overwhelming everyone around her. In one or two cases the victims fall prey to the spiral through their own weaknesses a student who is always late to school starts exhibiting signs of unnatural snail-like growths on his body, while another exhibitionist student finds herself the centre of a spiral of attention. Eventually the townspeople begin descending on a self-inflicted and self-perpetuating spiral of terror. (official distributor synopsis)
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"Uzumaki" is a slightly different horror movie that sometimes tries too hard to scare the audience in a rather simplistic way - it uses tools that are too typical for Japanese horror. However, when it remains within its own absurdity, it cannot be denied that it has an interesting concept and an effort to make the spiral a truly terrifying symbol. This is partially successful, but the film still remains rather weak because the impact it will have on you is probably not long-lasting.
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I’m sorry, but I can’t be bothered with this. Once again, I let myself be drawn into Asian weirdness, I looked forward again, I got bored again, and I again told myself that I won’t do it again. It’s so tedious and slow, and pointlessly bleak in the second half. The story is weirdly curious (which is good), but it goes from nowhere to nowhere (which is bad). This time there wasn’t even a good climax; massive disappointment overall. I’m giving it two stars in appreciation for at least the diversity and the good cinematography.
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