One typical sunny day in Japan, three kids are out in the park chatting about a Japanese urban Legend. There is a saying that the Slit Mouthed woman appears in the twilight and abducts children. But of course, its just a rumor to keep kids at home right?
Suddenly, a tall figure of a women appears! Grabbing the child by the hair and pointing the scissor at his throat. The other kids scream and run for help. As they turn their backs, the slit-mouth women and the little boy disappears.
Society begans to ponder about the safety of their children as they hear about the abduction on the news. What was once just a scary story shared by children is now reality. Adults are taking extra precautions when dropping their children off to school.
A little girl comes to school wearing a facemask resembling that of the Slit Mouth Women. Her name is Mika, a very soft-spoken student. After school, Mika takes a walk with her teacher, Kyoko, who is curious about the surgical-mask. She takes off her facemask and shows her the bruises and cuts around her body. She follows up with "I hate my mother". Suddenly, a women appears with a huge pair of scissors and grabs Mika. Kyoko trembles in fear as the Slit-Mouthed women disappears with Mika. She reports it to the police and tells them its not a human, they immediately release her on counts of bull crap.
Kyoko meets a man name Noboru who seems to have some sort of relationship with the Slit-Mouthed Women. He tells her that the photo was 30 years old. What in the world could a middle age man be doing with a 3o year old photo of a murderous women? They both join together to save Mika and kill the Slit-Mouth Women.
Carved: The Slit-Mouth Woman explores the tragedies of domestic violence and the horror of an urban legend. The premise is pretty interesting, a long-haired women catching children with a huge pair of scissors. There's very little blood and gore or any utilization of background creativity, and is more accessible to younger viewers.
The Slit-Mouthed Women always greets her victim with "Am I…Pretty?". You'll think twice before saying Yes cause when she removes her surgical mask and her jaw drops down, YUCK!. She's a very violent women, as a mother and as a spirit. She expresses her love by beating the daylight out of her kids. There is no incentives as to why the Carved women kills children, perhaps its up to viewers to make one up. My personal opinion on the matter is She's just insane like every other moms in the movie who beats their children and gets all emo about it. I find it difficult to care for the children since I personally can't relate to it.
Wait she beats children? Un-watchable!! Actually, you couldn't be further from the truth. Carved seems to have thrown in child cruelty hoping to spark up some emotions from parents and kids. It's a cheap shot to stir up controversial issues of child cruelty.
Carved is inconsistent in story-telling. How in the world does a 4 year old girl know where the Slit Mouth women lives? She tells Noburo "an isolated house with a red roof" and he goes OH I KNOW!…whatever. And the characters work really hard to make you hate them. They can't break the distinction between determination and terrified.
There's a lot of plotholes, one which introduces another Carved women and it never goes explained as of how it happens. It's cheesy when it happens too! A middle-aged women would cough and slouch over with her face down. When she puts her head back up, a trench coat, scissor, and surgical mask mysteriously appears on her and boom!, shes becomes the Carved women.
Carved: slit mouthed women isn't a great movie, but it's a decent one. You can do alot better with Carved than the sea of mediocre teen-slash flicks. keep expectations low and you'll have a fun with this one.
