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Uzumaki
Directed by
Higuchinsky
2000
90m
Mystery
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.1
61%
57%
5.9
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The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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Cast of Uzumaki
Eriko Hatsune
Kirie Goshima
Fhi Fan
Shuichi Saito
Hinako Saeki
Kyoko Sekino
Shin Eun-kyung
Chie Marayama
Keiko Takahashi
Yukie Saito
Ren Osugi
Toshio Saito
Denden
Officer Futada
Masami Horiuchi
Reporter Ichiro Tamura
Tarō Suwa
Yasuo Goshima
Toru Tezuka
Yokota Ikuo
Sadao Abe
Mitsuru Yamaguchi
Asumi Miwa
Shiho Ishikawa
Saori Nakane
Little Kirie
Yasuki Tanaka
Little Shuichi
Yuki Murakami
Yukky
Maki Hamada
Macky
Tomoo Fukatsu
Norio Katayama
Akira Matsuda
Yasuzo Oyama
Chino Mizuki
Takuto Oyama
Himself
Uzumaki Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Uzumaki progresses like the life cycle of a butterfly, only the subjects begin as human beings and contort into giant snails, powerless to stop their bodies from betraying them.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Pic duly places less emphasis on narrative than on the sort of surreal set pieces that might have worked better in the graphic-novel form.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Adapted from a horror comic by Junji Ito, this debut feature from Japanese music-video director Higuchinsky begins eerily but doesn't take long to descend into silliness.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A brilliant horror film with an original idea and style to spare.
Rue Morgue Magazine
Jovanka Vuckovic
'Uzumaki is a masterfully rendered living portrait of warped, apocalyptic art...'
Film Threat
Ross Williams
Mostly the film creates an infectious feeling of apprehension that slowly crawls up your spine.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Special effects can be tastefully managed even on a shoestring budget, but here they are merely ludicrous.
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh.
Nitrate Online
KJ Doughton
Succumb to its creepy charms, and you'll never see inner-ear anatomy diagrams, umbrellas, or escargot in quite the same way. You might even hand over laundry chores to someone else.
eye WEEKLY
Jason Anderson
Eerie and slimy enough to give Tim Burton nightmares, Uzumaki is a superb piece of fantasy cinema.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A somewhat satisfying, because of its uniqueness, but ultimately empty horror chiller.
Seattle Times
Mark Rahner
Required viewing for horror fans, Japanese-cult-cinema fans, and anyone who digs settling in for an unsettling David Lynch evening.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
... not really a story as an inexplicable nightmare, right down to the hallucinatory imagery and the population's shrugged acceptance to each new horror.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Ultimately the, yes, snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of Martha Stewart decorating program run amok.
New York Post
Megan Turner
At some point, all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy, vaguely silly overkill.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Things really get weird, though not particularly scary: the movie is all portent and no content.
Village Voice
Edward Crouse
Puts most American would-be chillers to shame.
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