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Uzumaki’s Body Horror Isn’t Even the Scariest Thing About It
It is pretty damn scary, though.
Mouths grow extra sets of teeth, eyes blacken into vortexes of shadow, and spinal columns seemingly melt away so that one’s figure can arch, curve, and coil into itself, breaking every law of anatomy you thought you knew. And in the series’ final episode, of course, Kirie and Shuichi’s love becomes corrupted, and, of course, it won’t save them once they travel down a hidden stairway into the otherworldly realm underneath their village and learn that Kurouzu’s curse is ancient, its land damned, and its fate inevitable. A post-credits scene set years later introduces a rebuilt Kurouzu, and a new teen couple wondering why the village seems in thrall to the spiral reinforces the disquieting “time is a flat circle” of it all, serving as a perfect deepening of all the series’ preceding body horror.
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