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