Movie Review: Uzumaki

This film is based on a Japanese manga of the same name. Unfortunately, the film was finished before the manga, which is why I believe the end of the film wasn't very good. Uzumaki the film was a bit of a disappointment. Uzumaki means spiral. The film leads you through things appearing in the village to people that have spirals occuring naturally in them. A snail's shell, hurricanes, smoke, and water in a drain all display this pattern naturally. I really thought it was an interesting plot and the story was plugging along nicely until it just... ended. No resolution. No explanation of why this town was affected by a spiral sickness. The audience is just left with nothing. It had pretty interesting art direction and so-so graphics. I really wanted it to "wow" me. There are some similarities in the story to the book "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. Would I recommend watching it? Probably not, unless you are really interested in Japanese horror films. The most interesting part of this film experience is that my dog found a large snail climbing up the outside of my house the day after we watched the movie. I had never one by my house until that day. Coincidence? Hmmm.