Horror films often times don't come out horrific, but rather strange and almost incomprehensible. There is nothing more true to say about Uzumaki than that.

It's the story of a town in Japan infected by an obsession with spiral forms. The "disease" starts out with Kirie's friend Shuichi?s father. He has a fetish: he loves all things spiral, and everything he sees with uzumaki (spirals), he takes. His obsession leads him to a grotesque death. Then, one by one, the people of the town get hit with the bug. Kirie and her friend Shuichi, with the help of a reporter, try to solve the mystery of the uzumaki invasion. However, it's too late that they try to escape.

With cheesy graphics and terrible acting, this movie leaves you wanting. The special effects are horrible. At one point, when Shuichi's father has really become bonkers, his eyes spin around and look like ping-pong balls rather than real eyes. The actors overuse their facial expressions and voice. Kirie, however, has almost no expression through the whole movie.

The weird things that happen with the uzumaki don't even make sense. For example, two boys turn into snails and start climbing up the school. For one, it was because he was slow, and for the other, it was because he couldn't stop drinking water. Also, they began to touch on why the uzumaki obsession was infecting the town, but it seems they grew tired of writing the script and didn't feel like telling the reason.

Even for lovers of weird movies and such, Uzumaki was totally lame. I would give it one star, and I wouldn't recommend anyone watch it. Uzumaki is not rated, but if it had debuted in the United States cinemas, it probably would receive a PG-13 rating. It's in Japanese with English subtitles, and runs about ninety minutes.