A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
It won’t be to many people’s taste, but for those with strong stomachs, Excision presents a strain of horror that’s grounded in real life, and one with more potency that most conventional slasher/torture fare.
It could have been David Cronenberg meets Todd Solondz, but ends up more of a cautionary cartoon on things you shouldn't try at home.
Take a bow, Richard Bates, Jr, you have successfully freaked us out.
A strikingly shot, brilliantly acted adolescent rite of passage from darkly funny to just plain dark.
Like the lovechild of Carrie and Napoleon Dynamite, Pauline is the oddball hero of a truly impressive, eccentric teen horror.
Excision is keener on being knowing and culty than genuinely shocking.
I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped. It may not be everyone's cup of tea.
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