Kuchisake-Onna 2

Slit-Mouthed Woman 2
Carved 2: The Scissors Massacre

Japan 2008
produced by
Takafumi Ohashi (executive) for JollyRoger, Earl Grey Film, Kadokawa Shoten, TC Entertainment, Tornado Film
directed by Kotaro Terauchi
starring Mayuko Iwasa, Akihiro Mayama, Hideo Nakano, Rin Asuka, Yukie Kawamura, Yosuke Saito, Erina, Miki Hayashi, Kouta Kusano, Masashi Taniguchi
screenplay by Kotaro Terauchi, Yoshitsugu Sagami, Carolco, special makeup effects by Kakusei Fujiwara, visual effects by Yoshitsugu Sagami

Slit-Mouthed Woman

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Meyumi's life couldn't be happier: Her parents are wealthy, she loves her friends at school, and she has just started dating the boy she secretly had a crush on for quite a while. Then one night though, a rejected lover pours acid into her face and brutally stabs her mother to death before her very eyes. He is shot pretty much immediately afterwards by her father, but daddy is never able to overcome his loss and he ultimately shoots himself, leaving Meyumi - who now hides her distorted face behind a surgical mask - in the care of two aunts.

At school, her friends turn away from Meyumi because she has turned into a freak, and even her boyfriend can't come over her distorted face. Thing is, they all turn up dead, and at first, Meyumi thinks they have been killed by a faceless ghost woman she thinks she sees on and off - until at a rather deliberate point in the film's plot, it's revealed that it was actually Meyumi herself who has done the killings. Eventually, Meyumi's aunts also come to the conclusion that she is a serialkiller, and they decide to get rid of her by poisoning her and burying her body - also in order to get their hands on her inheritance of course. Thing is, Meyumi refuses to stay dead, and she comes back to have her bloody revenge on her aunts ...

On the plus side, this film goes out of its way to tell a story as different from the first Slit-Mouthed Woman as possible, which was a rather average Japanese horror effort. That said though, this doesn't make Slit-Mouthed Woman 2 too good a film. In fact it's little more than a slow-moving shocker that downplays its mystery motives for soap opera elements, takes incredibly long to set up its feeble story (there is no single scare within the first 20 minutes), and doesn't come into full steam until the finale, the resolution of which leaves something to be desired.

In all, Slit-Mouthed Woman 2 is not a totally bad movie, it's just dead boring for the most part (which might be even worse).

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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