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An outcast teenager (AnnaLynne McCord) practices surgical skills and has weird, and increasingly violent, psychosexual fantasies.
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Excision effectively blends body horror and adolescent drama, although its visceral aggression definitely isn't for all tastes.

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Antonia Quirke Financial Times McCord's elfin face has been transformed here with fake heavy eyebrows into something disturbingly simian and her low, uncouth voice provides a really weird sexual charge. Rated: 1/5 Nov 8, 2012 Full Review Rachel Cooke Observer (UK) I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped. Nov 4, 2012 Full Review Steve Rose Guardian 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. Rated: 2/5 Nov 1, 2012 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Bizarre and boundary-pushing, Excision takes familiar horror elements and reinvents them in fulfilling ways and pushes the genre to disturbing heights. Rated: 4/5 Sep 22, 2023 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Raw, honest, funny and heartbreaking (with an ending that will leave you breathless), Richard Bates Jr.'s debut film is nothing short of brilliant. Rated: 4.5/5 Jun 16, 2021 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Excision is a confronting, incredibly upsetting and entertaining film with two iconic performances by AnnaLynne McCord and Traci Lords. It's witty, caustic, profane and sexy and that's all before the devastating ending absolutely destroys you. Rated: 4/5 Jun 13, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ben L This is a film that people are going to have strong opinions on, they’re either gonna love it or hate it. It’s worth finding out for yourself which side you are on. I’m on the love it side. It’s a masterpiece. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/24 Full Review Lou M This could have been a good movie but it's clearly a low grade movie with some average acting. The lead does well, the rest are rubbish. There's really no development of the storyline. Honestly save yourself the time and skip this one. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/06/24 Full Review Diana S It was a good idea, but the tone is inconsistent and thus confusing toward the end, and for that and other reasons related to character development, the ending felt unearned and insufficiently supported. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/02/23 Full Review Audience Member It's good. Hard for me to admit. Parts I don't like. But it gripped me. Seeing someone so psychologicaly ill is heartbreaking and terrifying. Some shocking imagery I wouldn't do but overall pretty worth it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review william d There are some horror elements here, but mostly it's a story about a weird teenage girl in a dysfunctional family. There's not much suspense or scares. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It starts off with a sexy, macabre wet dream sequence that set the tone for… really not much. A runty neanderthal looking pauline, who looks beautifully stylized for the cover of vogue when ever she has one of her ghoulish, carnal dreams but then wakes up to reality looking like the caveman in the Geico commercial. Those few and far between dream sequences are the only thing prominent in this slow moving story. Anna Lynne McCord confronts , defies and grunts. Is she odd? Yes, Is she awkward? Yes, psychotic and ready to do harm? Not really. The movie mostly plays like a dark parody, jumping from different visual styles and tones. Culminating to a tragic coerced rush ending that does seem to sit well and leaves you mostly unconvinced. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An outcast teenager (AnnaLynne McCord) practices surgical skills and has weird, and increasingly violent, psychosexual fantasies.
Director
Richard Bates Jr.
Producer
Dylan Hale Lewis
Screenwriter
Richard Bates Jr.
Production Co
New Normal Films
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 25, 2017
Runtime
1h 21m
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