Uzumaki 2000 123movies

Watch: うずまき 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend’s father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another’s hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed..
Plot: The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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Ratings:

	6.1/10 Votes: 8,338
	58% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 174 Popularity: 10.973 | TMDB

Reviews:

seriously creepy
A town in Japan is being taken over by a horribly brutal abstract shape: the spiral. It’s becoming a theme in everything from animals to clouds to people and twisting them, mentally and literally. This film shows it happening to several groups of people. Some demonic possession is implied, but nothing is entirely sure except that the best bet is to get the heck out of dodge. The film progresses really well from normal life to abnormal phenomena (giant snails and crazy people) to the truly supernatural (walking dead).

As a jaded American horror movie fan, this was just what I needed. Maybe it was just the novelty of a different culture’s film, but it seemed to have a very original progression, set of characters, and the premise was definitely new. The Japanese may think “horror shapes” (uzumaki means “spiral,” I’m told) are old by now, but it was nice for me because I’m used to monster/alien/virus/disaster/undead films. In an American movie, you know who’s going to die (the annoying/nasty/lascivious/racist characters) and who will live (the children/heroine/dogs/cats/nice guy). That’s not true in Japanese horror. It was not predictable how they would fight the evil or how it would end up. Also, it had this really new (but probably typically Japanese) color leached Pacific Northwest style cloudy day thing going, which was a fresh visual effect for me. The horrific moments were seriously creepy, relying on a little gore but mainly just impossibly overdone facial expressions (think The Ring) and body manipulations. This should be one of the greats, up there with once-original ideas like the first Nightmare on Elm Street or Night of the Living Dead.

Swirly Hill
This feeble attempt at veering your typically bland Japanese horror movie more towards a creepy cult hit did not have the ammunition needed to keep the viewer involved throughout. Translated to vortex, Uzumaki is about just that- an irrational and overabundant tribute to the strange downward spiral into nothingness that has seemingly captivated a whole small town into dementia obsessed lunatics. While this certainly makes for a pleasurable b-movie on the surface, the traditionally tiresome acting, direction, and script will have all but Asian horror buffs shaking their heads in dismay. What could have roughly translated into Japanese equivalent of an early David Lynch piece, instead wares out it’s spiraled gimmickry before it even has a chance to explain itself- which of course it does not. Aside from a few clever techniques employed, the movie rarely connects the dizzying thematics with the dull script, ultimately coming across as a cheap exploitation into the cult genre, substituting hollow imagery for genuine substance. When the movie had ended there was hardly anything that was gained from any of the interactions, save a tiny few scenes or images that rose above the one note film. I do applaud the makers for at least trying to take the genre into more supernatural, metaphysical realms and understand the rough losses lost-in-translation, but with zero substance to back any of it’s freakishness up this will likely be relegated to obscure fanboy’s bong-ridden basements.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (USA)
Budget 1000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director Higuchinsky
Writer Junji Ito, Kengo Kaji, Takao Nitta
Actors Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki
Country Japan
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo, DTS-Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses (Main Camera)
Laboratory Sony PCL, Tokyo, Japan (film laboratory)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm