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A really
bad hair day
Dads shows
his inner spirals
Purchase the Elite Entertainment US
Version from Amazon
Dad loves
his Spiral collection don't mess with it...
The
Elite Entertainment US DVD release of the film Uzumaki
(Spiral) is a great example on how to properly release a Japanese
Horror film to western audiences. The packaging and presentation
are very high quality. This film by Director Higichinsky who
also Directed the bizarre Japanese Horror offering Long Dream
(Nagai yume), is a tale of a cursed and doomed village in
Japan. The story is about a girl and her experiences with
people in the village both friends and family that are slowly
being sucked in by a obsession with spiral and vortex shapes.
The citizens of the village are infatuated with all kinds
of spirals like on snails and in washing machines. These folks
just cannot get enough of the spirals in food, the sky, pottery,
you name it.
That's
what I call spun...
Uzumaki
is filled with weirdness as the townsfolk deteriorate from
obsessions to complete insanity. The horror elements are good
in the film with some extremely odd transformations both slimy
and twisting happening to people effected by the spirals.
The movie dumps you into the world of the main character and
all these events that seem very unreal yet are happening.
Her father is an interesting example, and he becomes almost
violent at the fact that they threw away his collection of
items containing spirals. That's ok for him as he now believes
the spiral is inside of him and he treats his family to a
eye spinning freak show (see screen shot). The film if watched
closely has little subliminal spirals in some scenes that
make it seem as if their power is all around like an impending
doom for the villagers. Uzumaki
despite some internal unsolved mysteries (plot holes perhaps
due to translation for westerners), offers some of the weirdest
imagery to date from a Japanese horror film.
This
film was also based on a Magna comic that was very
popular. The comic book imagery is transferred to the film
in an interesting way that leaded to some neat special effects.
The film was not comical yet the weirdness of the characters
easily may make you laugh a little. The DVD quality is great
both picture and sound. Also, a plus are the great english
white with black
stroke subtitles, making them
clear and easy to read. This DVD is recommended and is much
better than the HK version. The Elite Ent. US version of UZUMAKI
will definitely throw you for a loop in a good way and makes
NIN's "The Downward Spiral" seem like a picnic.
Uzumaki
(Spiral)
