AKA Carved 2 or The Scissors Massacre.
Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town of Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko works at a beauty salon and the youngest, Mayu is on the track team in high school. Their happy , carefree lives are changed forever when Yukie’s ex-boyfriend Suzuki commits an atrocious crime with Mayu as the tragic victim. Half-crazed and bent on revenge against the Sawada family, Suzuki mistakes Mayu for Yukie and pours acid all over her face. Overwhelmed by physical and psychological trauma, Mayu sinks deeper into depression and isolation, unresponsive to her sisters’ encouragement… Meanwhile, chilling news of a serial murderer, who preys on the alumni of Mayu’s high school, sends shock waves through their small town…
Based on a supposedly true story in the 70’s, this is an alternative take on the Japanese urban legend of the Slit Mouthed Woman with a completely different story from the first movie. Although it’s a horror movie, you’d be surprised just how little blood and chills there is in the first hour apart from a nasty stabbing and the tragic acid face attack on the innocent schoolgirl Mayumi who eventually turns into the scissors killer. For the final third, we’re in full bloody horror mode as Mayumi takes her revenge on those that have crossed her. You do feel some sympathy for Mayumi’s plight – ignored by her former friends and subjected to whispers by the rest of the high school pupils for something she didn’t ask to happen to her. However, that sympathy goes out of the window once she goes crazy with the scissors. For those horror fans who are willing to be patient they’ll be rewarded with some great gore by the end. I still think the first movie is better – much more frightening and the killer is more sinister and brutal but this movie is pretty good in it’s own way once it gets going.
Sadako’s Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
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