Friday, April 16, 2010

Carved / Slit Mouthed Woman 口裂け女 (Kuchisake-Onna)

Released Year: 2007
Directed by 白石晃士 Koji Shiraishi

Casted by:
佐藤江梨子 Eriko Sato as Kyoko Yamashita
加藤睛彦 Haruhiko Kato as Noboru Matsuzaki
水野美紀 Miki Mizuno as Taeko Matsuzaki

Story:
People in town is busying talking about the slit-mouthed woman reappearing, everybody lives in horror. It seems like the mythology is real, during an earthquake, the slit mouthed woman appear and got a small boy with her in a playground. Yamashita is sending her students home. But Mika was caught by the slit mouthed woman in a sudden.

Before Mika was caught by the slit mouthed woman, she told Yamashita about her mother, Mayumi being violence with her and beat her when she's not obeying. This remind Yamashita about herself with her own daughther. In the meanwhile, another teacher, Matsuzaki suspect that the slit-mouthed woman is his mother Taeko who passed away 30 years ago.

Memories flashed back as Taeko was beating three of her children in the house. The 1st son and daughter were killed by her. But when she's about to kill Noboru, she accidentally slit her own mouth with a scissors and dead. Now, Taeko is back to hunt all the children.

Taeko's spirit goes into any woman who has cough and they will transfer become Taeko and kill children. Kyoko and Noboru found the shelter of Taeko and try to destroy her. But Taeko is unbeatable and too strong to fight against. Finally Noboru sacrifice himself and cut off Taeko's head when she took the body of Mayumi. Kyoko managed to brought Mika out of the house when another earthquake happened and Noboru and Taeko is burried in the basement.

Kyoko went to see her daughter, Ai to ask for forgiveness. But Kyoko suddenly cough and transfer into Taeko and killed Ai.

L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:
I thought i'm going to have a good scare of watching this movie, but no. It's so dull and not scary at all. The 2 score i gave is for the make-up or special effect on the slit-mouthed part. Overall, the acting part is kinda stiff also.

The movie suppose to bring out the horror part of Japan-Mythology, but apparently it did not. Can't even feel a tinnie-weenie bit of fear. Another *yawn yawn* horror film...

1 comment:

  1. You said Taeko killed herself...she didn't. She told Noboru to kill her, and first he slit her mouth by accident, and then he stabbed ehr to death.

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