re:mote voices

uzumaki - how do you explain uzumaki? i suspect you don't, at least not with out exclaiming - its mad, so it is! and it is. uzumaki, which translates as vortex, is about a village in japan which has become cursed. people become obsessed with the idea of the vortex, and end up dying. to some degree i think there is an explanation on the box for the DVD about a girl who died in a whirlpool haunting the town, but that is not made clear by the film itself.

uzumaki gets progressively weirder, little spirals appearing in the background from the start, gaining momentum, stranger and stranger deaths as the whole town becomes affected. meanwhile the lead girl is just trying to understand/survive it all. the result becomes unsettling and not entirely predictable. the atmosphere and the just sheer out thereness of it all makes uzumaki a memorable piece that is totally worth seeing.