The Scissors Massacre
口裂け女2
Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in 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. 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 shockwaves through their small town...
A grim, slow-burn blend of psychological trauma and slasher dread rooted in rural Japan’s underbelly.
- Delivers a raw, unsettling portrait of trauma’s aftermath rarely seen in slasher fare—Mayu’s acid attack scars are both literal and emotional wounds.
- The small-town setting and sisterly dynamics ground the horror in lived-in realism, heightening the creeping sense of doom.
- Fans of J-horror’s psychological complexity and atmospheric tension will find this a moody, if uneven, addition.
- Practical effects on Mayu’s disfigurement lean into body horror territory, making the violence viscerally impactful, not just sensational.
