Stevieboy666 Film about an 18 year girl called Pauline and her rather shocking dreams or fantasies of sex and death. She is also desperate to lose her virginity. AnnaLynne McCord plays the role and considering she is a model the make up team have done a good job of making her look, frankly, pretty ugly. Traci Lords, Malcolm McDowell & John Waters, a few famous cult names, also help make up the cast. Hard to classify this type of film. My TV guide, Wikipedia & IMDB all describe it as horror and it certainly has a lot of nightmarish stuff and gore going on. But it's also a teen drama, a black comedy and dare I say even a bit of an art movie. But whatever genre you want to label it as it's a shocking, strange but also riveting watch. Perhaps experience would be a better word. Certainly not for everyone & a strong stomach is advised but credit due for pushing the boundaries.

Maxed_cape One of my all time favourite films. Personally I feel its macabre nature is perfectly balanced with appealing cinematic aspects. Good sound track, interesting narrative portrayed with a face of art, and spot on casting. AnnaLynne McCord did a perfect job at portraying a teenage sociopath and she deserves rewards for that performance. At that, the casting was impressive when regarding the director and writer was an unknown, fresh 25 year old director. The film successfully explores themes of teenage life, complex relationships, religious zealotry, and the problem with being a self-proclaimed surgeon... Not for everyone by all means, but for me, fantastique!

GL84 Trying to follow her delusional dreams of being a surgeon, an outcast teen becomes overwhelmed by her increasingly psychotic sexualized dreams and uses them to help appease her domineering mother.On the whole this one wasn't all that impressive. What really tends to turn this one down is the fact that there's just absolutely nothing appealing or interesting about the lead here who comes off as every outcast cliché rolled into one form and it comes off as incredibly off- putting. The obsessive desire to fit in despite being interested in grotesque and morbid hobbies, the need for continuous scatological remarks to any situational comeback ever, the overt sexualized discussions with everyone around her and butting heads with anyone and everyone around her just because she's right are just some of the behavior around here and it's so clichéd, so unremarkable and handled so ineptly that it's not only uninteresting but simply furthers here outcast feeling in the first place and makes it completely warranted for why she's treated as such which tends to make this one go along so agonizingly slow it can't sustain anything in the first half here. The one bright spot about that part, the need for her career as a surgeon, not only makes these scenes so easily foreshadowed later on but also adds delusional to her list of credentials due to the increasingly bizarre self-destructive qualities exhibited here that allow for her to throw them away despite her continuing pressure to become one which is what really tends to make this one feel so empty-headed and lame that it would've been totally justified for physical abuse at the hands of her parents to get her in line in life. Apart from all that, this one wasn't all that bad when it focused on areas other than her, as the main focus here is really on her psychotic dreams and visions that come along with her burgeoning sexuality, as these are vivid, lurid and quite graphic with tons of bloodshed, graphic and sexualized kills and a rather hypnotic quality that makes them incredibly watchable and chilling, which is nearly enough to save this almost by itself. Due to the severity of the other flaws, though, it only makes this one watchable.Rated Unrated: Extreme Graphic Violence, Strong Sexual Content including graphic sexual discussions, Nudity, Graphic Language and strong themes of menstruation.

begob This has perfect elements, but it's not a horror.Writing/direction/editing brilliant - each scene pure drama, no bull. In, out, onward.Acting brilliant. Lead actress a fan of Jolie? The opposite, darlin'. The exact opposite. Not sure about the prayer scenes, but the moment she began to believe turned the mood, the plot, everything.Music and sound good enough.Complaints: I laughed less in the second half + the surgery fantasies lost intensity after a brilliant start.I'm a horror fan, hate when the genre is used to beef up a weak psychological drama. But Excision is nothing like that - it's unique. Maybe I'll think back and see more flaws. This director has a Suburban movie coming out so we'll see how good he gets.