Based on a popular manga by Ito Junji, Uzumaki is a one of the most eccentrically entertaining horror movies to come out of Japan in the last few years. The small town of Kurouzucho has fallen under the power of the ‘vortex', spirals holding the local community in thrall, a man climbs inside his spin dryer turning himself into a ‘Mr Whippy', his wife mutilates herself trying to escape the spirals within her own body, school children are mutating into human-snails and subtle helical CGI pepper t find out more...