Just finished watching '
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman'. It was so-so. I grew restless of the predictability of the plot and the inanity and incompetence of the main characters somewhere in the middle of the movie, and I just let it play in the background while I browsed the web. On the plus side, the movie was willing to get brutal towards children, not a great thing in itself but refreshing as not many movies dare to go there. I also liked the visual aura and thematic milieu of urban legend, much like Nightmare on Elm Street or Candyman, but that aspect was side-lined somewhere in the middle of the movie. After that point it was just incompetent confrontations with a disfigured woman armed only with a gigantic pair of scissors (where do you get scissors that big?) Altogether it was a disappointing movie from the director of the great and original
Noroi: The Curse.