Excision

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Excision

2012

1h 21m

Horror

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An outcast teenager (AnnaLynne McCord) practices surgical skills and has weird, and increasingly violent, psychosexual fantasies.

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Critics Consensus

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

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Rachel Cooke

Observer (UK)

I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped.

Nov 4, 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dan S

ERichard Bates Jr.'s debut is a deeply unsettling psychological character study dressed in the skin of a high school misfit movie—with surgical gloves on and plenty of blood to spare. Excision is a disturbingly original take on adolescent alienation—artful, audacious, and emotionally raw. Not for the squeamish, but hard to forget.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/25/25

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Jeremy A

AMAZING. 5*/5* Go blind and wish you were after!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/22/25

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Tyler B

Watching this feels like puberty.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/13/24

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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

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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

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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

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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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