Excision

While until the last few minutes of the movie you would be hard pressed to call this horror, this movie does cut away into these really pretty fantasy sequences where the misanthropic teenage girl fantasizes about surgical blood shed of an erotic nature. In some ways this is a coming of age film as it explore a female perspective on the horrors of losing your virginity. the actual act takes on a very calculated and cold execution which is the one moment where the fact this was written by a male screen writer is apparent, unless the goal was to show her as a sociopath.

Mccord's character is no Dexter Morgan when it comes to being a sociopath , as she has the range of your typical teenage angsty stuff just amped up by way of say ....Ghost world with a side of Daria. I also feel a little Heathers vibe at times from this movie, but with the surreal gore interludes. If you are a total gore ghoul who masturbates to a Serbian film , then these sequences aren't going to do much for the desensitized, if you like pretty lesbian hinted corpse crawling then grab the lube.

The violence in this film is hinted at rather than graphically depicted, she only really has three episodes of it and one of them is a locker beatdown at school. Her disdain for the world around her could have been further fleshed out as her overbearing mother , cuckhold father and sleazy therapist/priest, don't seem to warrant a psychotic twist, though at that age you do tend to overact to everything, hell half my Facebook friend who are supposedly adults overreact to every thing but the almost Carrie nature of it is what leaves the film feeling like so many other movies I have mentioned.

John waters , Traci Lords and Marlee Matlin , who is not hotter than the puffy gave lords, all fill out a cast with a few other surprises for genre fans. I can see this developing a cult following though the direct to video nature of its release might hamper this, I'm not sure why it didn't receive distribution as the out put from art house theater has been boring.

It was going to be hard for this one to live up to the trailer and still be straddling the dark comedy fence. The horror movie John Waters would make if he was going to make one? Some of the awkwardly paced dialogue makes you wonder if they were going for the David Lynch thing. The monologues to god were the only parts which gave away the face budget went for their effort to pay for the shining stars of cult b lists. I was entertaining despite the films flaws in production and dialogue even though this was not a horror movie I have no qualms about recommending to people who might
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