Excision (2012)

The movie is called Excision (2012) and was written and directed by Richard Bates Jr. It is in short, a portrait of a very disturbed young girl named Pauline, played intensely by AnnaLynne McCord. I will be talking about the movie so Spoiler Alert ahead. You want to catch it first, do so. Ultimately this is a very sad film. Pauline is an outcast who believes herself to be the only rational one in her family, consisting of her Mother, well played by Traci Lords, and her father played by Rodger Bart, and her younger sister Grace, the sweet and innocent, played by Ariel Winters, suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. Pauline is intelligent, communicative, and very deeply disturbed. Her picture illustrates "Unpopular" in the dictionary.Pauline dreams, bloody dreams that she finds erotic. She believes herself to be capable of being a great surgeon. This is a complex character whose motivations are sometimes delusional. The Family seems unable to cope with their spiraling out of control daughter. She was complex, and prone to bizarre behavior, and still at the end, I felt sad for her. The ending is pretty Shocking.All the notes rang true with this one, Kudos to the Writer Director's first effort. Interesting to see the iconic mustache of John Waters, taking a small part as Councillor, and Malcolm McDowell in a small role as well. I'm going to give this disturbing mind bender Eight out of Ten sanguine Stars.

Trying to follow her delusional dreams of being a surgeon, an outcast teen becomes overwhelmed by her increasingly psychotic sexualized dreams and uses them to help appease her domineering mother.On the whole this one wasn't all that impressive. What really tends to turn this one down is the fact that there's just absolutely nothing appealing or interesting about the lead here who comes off as every outcast cliché rolled into one form and it comes off as incredibly off- putting. The obsessive desire to fit in despite being interested in grotesque and morbid hobbies, the need for continuous scatological remarks to any situational comeback ever, the overt sexualized discussions with everyone around her and butting heads with anyone and everyone around her just because she's right are just some of the behavior around here and it's so clichéd, so unremarkable and handled so ineptly that it's not only uninteresting but simply furthers here outcast feeling in the first place and makes it completely warranted for why she's treated as such which tends to make this one go along so agonizingly slow it can't sustain anything in the first half here. The one bright spot about that part, the need for her career as a surgeon, not only makes these scenes so easily foreshadowed later on but also adds delusional to her list of credentials due to the increasingly bizarre self-destructive qualities exhibited here that allow for her to throw them away despite her continuing pressure to become one which is what really tends to make this one feel so empty-headed and lame that it would've been totally justified for physical abuse at the hands of her parents to get her in line in life. Apart from all that, this one wasn't all that bad when it focused on areas other than her, as the main focus here is really on her psychotic dreams and visions that come along with her burgeoning sexuality, as these are vivid, lurid and quite graphic with tons of bloodshed, graphic and sexualized kills and a rather hypnotic quality that makes them incredibly watchable and chilling, which is nearly enough to save this almost by itself. Due to the severity of the other flaws, though, it only makes this one watchable.Rated Unrated: Extreme Graphic Violence, Strong Sexual Content including graphic sexual discussions, Nudity, Graphic Language and strong themes of menstruation.

Just because something looks cool, doesn't always mean it is. However, in the case of Excision, storyline and style surprisingly hold their own. As soon as the opening scene unfolded, I knew I was going to enjoy watching this film. It's stylish, bold, and has that perfect amount of indie flair to offset the overall horror theme. If you like films like Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Requiem For a Dream where aesthetic lends a big hand to the overall film, then you'll enjoy Excision. Though it's not a classic like the films mentioned above, it still has a really engaging story and cool direction. The film follows disturbed teen Pauline through her struggles as she tries to connect with the people around her, especially her family. But her obsessed thoughts of blood, death, and surgery keep her from doing so.The characters all have really different personalities which accentuate each other well throughout the film. The total control freak bitch mom, the miserably submissive dad, the angel younger daughter, and the misunderstood older daughter. Watching these different personalities collide really captures the viewer and emotionally puts you in there with them.Also Excision has an amazing final scene that you'll be thinking about way after the film is over.I thought this was a great film and I would definitely recommend it to any fan or horror or indie films.

This movie is drawn-out and ends with the character trying to perform surgery without the proper equipment. Cut my sister open with a kitchen knife? Sure, why not. May as well have the entire thing littered with her sexual fantasies about dead bodies that are somehow animated, too. Socially awkward girl turned into a killer because she wants to help her sister. Alright then. Explain how she didn't get any diseases from licking that roadkill bird blood too while you're at it. Honestly if I could give it less than one star, I would. I felt like I just wasted an hour and a half of my life watching Bob get whined at for trying to be supportive. The only good parts of this movie were when the sex ed teacher had to read out awkward questions. Don't waste your time. There's more gore in My Little Pony.