Spiral
2000 · film
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 man's obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turns his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, and another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possessed. ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Uzumaki" (うずまき) by Ito Junji (伊藤潤二).