Excision

  • Drama
  • Horror
9/12/2012
81
NR

Heal The Sickness

Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.

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  • John Chard

    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 thats 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 Paulines mother), whilst the blending of surreal imagery via Paulines dreams and the real world awkward...

    October 23, 2014

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