![]() ![]() ![]() Bombarded by all this, the people are driven into spiral-induced madness, or warp into warped curving forms and even the town itself begins to change to resemble the spiral.Īs was pointed out by Vice’s art editor Nick Gazin, it resembles the work of H. That's how it starts, as with individuals but as the curse gets stronger people start turn into snails, lighthouses burn people alive, and whirlpools trap them all there with the spiral. Shuchi explains that his father has become obsessed with spirals and that he thinks, “The town is contaminated with spirals.” He is proven to be all too right when his father turns up dead in a wooden tub contorted in on himself. The story starts in Kurouzu Cho a small seaside town in Japan where Kirie, a high school girl, finds the father of her friend Shuichi squatting in an alley transfixed by a snail crawling up a wall. It is a fantastic work of art and Junji proves, what many people have long suspected, that if you want true horror you need an ex-dentist to create it. In the words of the American film critic Bob Chipman “comics are weird”, and none-more-so than Junji Ito’s Uzumaki (Spiral). ![]()
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