Excision

Watch: Excision

11/2/20121h 21m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Heal The Sickness ~

Overview:

A misunderstood teenager Pauline, struggles with her abrasive Christian mother, her chronically ill sister, her aspiration to become a surgeon, and her increasingly violent psychosexual dreams. Pauline slowly begins to indulge in her fantasies, meanwhile, her mother tries to connect with her. In an attempt to make her mother proud she strives to cure her sister.

Director:

Richard Bates Jr.

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

first time
surgeon
loss of virginity
teenage girl
domineering mother
awkwardness
social outcast
lung transplant

Cast

AnnaLynne McCord

~ as ~

Pauline

Traci Lords

~ as ~

Phyllis

Ariel Winter

~ as ~

Grace

Roger Bart

~ as ~

Bob

Jeremy Sumpter

~ as ~

Adam

John Waters

~ as ~

William

Malcolm McDowell

~ as ~

Mr. Cooper

Marlee Matlin

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Amber

Matthew Gray Gubler

~ as ~

Mr. Claybaugh

Ray Wise

~ as ~

Principal Campbell

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 10 year(s) ago
9
The last cut is the deepest!

AnnaLynne McCord stars as Pauline, a disturbed high school misfit who has delusions of becoming a surgeon. Dominated by her over bearing mother, Pauline battles with her sanity and unhealthy obsessions.

Superb, a teen based horror that’s pungent with everything from necrophilia, growing pains, peer pressure, sexual anxiety, parental strife, mental illness and horror – real horror. Writer/director Richard Bates Junior does a brilliant job of filling an 80 minute movie with so many thematic smarts but never once over egging his bloody pudding. He gets excellent performances out of McCord and Traci Lords (as Pauline’s mother), whilst the blending of surreal imagery via Pauline’s dreams and the real world awkwardness – with some dry humour in the mix too – produces a picture that is in equal parts oddball and emotionally shattering.

When Dead Ringers collides with Ginger Snaps, Excision will stay with you for days afterwards. 9/10