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RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 57% (FRESH = 60% or Greater)   Reviews counted: 14 Fresh: 8  Rotten: 6 Average Rating: 5.9/10

( Showing 1-14 of 14 Tomatometer Reviews, sorted a-z )   "... less a story than an inexplicable nightmare, right down to the population's shrugging acceptance to each new horror." -- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER   "This directorial debut from music video show-off Higuchinsky is all flash." -- Jeremiah Kipp, FILMCRITIC.COM   "A surreal fairy tale that coils in on itself like a slow-motion whirlpool and achieves an atmosphere of sublime creepiness without ever precisely making sense." -- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE   "Required viewing for horror fans, Japanese-cult-cinema fans, and anyone who digs settling in for an unsettling David Lynch evening." -- Mark Rahner, SEATTLE TIMES   "One of the film’s strongest achievements is the way it manages to get so much mileage out of such a simple concept as spirals." -- Daniel Steinhart, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL --  Click to read the article. -- KJ Doughton, NITRATE ONLINE Soundtrack Books All Related Items   "Got a David Lynch jones? Then you'd do well to check this one out because it's straight up Twin Peaks action..." -- Eric Campos, MARS COLONY   "Uzumaki’s interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse..." -- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE   "Beautiful, cold, oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly, a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images." -- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN   "A somewhat satisfying, because of its uniqueness, but ultimately empty horror chiller." -- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS --  Click to read the article. -- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY --  Click to read the article. -- Donald J. Levit, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 20%   "Puts most American would-be chillers to shame." -- Edward Crouse, VILLAGE VOICE   "Things really get weird, though not particularly scary: the movie is all portent and no content." -- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES   "Gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh." -- John Petrakis, CHICAGO TRIBUNE   "Ultimately the, yes, snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of Martha Stewart decorating program run amok." -- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "At some point, all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy, vaguely silly overkill." -- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST

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