Excision (2012)

NR09/12/2012Drama, Horror1h 21m
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Heal The Sickness

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    AnnaLynne McCord

    Pauline

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    Traci Lords

    Phyllis

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    Ariel Winter

    Grace

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    Roger Bart

    Bob

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    Jeremy Sumpter

    Adam

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    John Waters

    William

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    Malcolm McDowell

    Mr. Cooper

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    Marlee Matlin

    Amber

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    Matthew Gray Gubler

    Mr. Claybaugh

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 that’s 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 excellen...