Uzumaki Spiral into Horror

Kurozu-cho, a small town shrouded in fog on the coast of Japan, is cursed.

According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, his town is haunted not by a person or being, but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world.

It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in the water, whirlpools in the air.

Uzumaki Spiral into Horror

And in large ways: the spiral markings on people’s bodies, Shuichi’s father’s insane obsessions, the voice of the cochlea in his inner ear.

As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurozu-cho are pulled deeper and deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return…