Excision Reviews

You wait years for one quirky, necrophiliac, indie horror to arrive and then...well, only one turns up. Excision is probably why.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Excision is technically polished juvenilia that provokes without resonance.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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

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A very strange and rather disgusting indie thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Excision isn't for the weak of heart or those hoping for a simple-minded watch, but can most certainly be a rewarding endeavor for any viewer needing a good character piece full of personalities worth a good psycho-analysis.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

It won't be to many people's taste, but for those with strong stomachs, Excision presents a strain of horror that's grounded in real life, and one with more potency that most conventional slasher/torture fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Excision is no horror movie, but rather, a blood-strewn black comedy. It's an uneasy tone to strike, but Bates finds the right balance with his sharp script and just enough underlying tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Bates' piercing originality and keen eye for framing and ear for dialogue sets it own precedents, standing tall on the stooped shoulders of Pauline and her teen-dream bloodlust.

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It's the take-no-prisoners enthusiasm with which Bates leaps into his suburban nightmare that makes Excision so interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Brave, transgressive, disgusting, thrilling - and boasting a 90210-defying turn from an uglified AnnaLynne McCord - Excision could have been this generation's Carrie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

This disturbing, demented psychodrama cuts to the heart of teen growing pains.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

charting the horrors of adolescent alienation... writer/director Richard Bates Jr. is the exciting new face of disturbing, demented psychodrama.

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An overripe mélange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A dark comedy that may not quite be Lucky McKee's masterful May but should earn fans along the lines of Ginger Snaps and Teeth

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

There's an element of parody to this jet-black comedy, but the film is so creepy that it gets under our skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Excision is a supremely nasty piece of work in the best way possible.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

This is one of the damnedest "adolescent misfit" movies you'll ever see -- for those who can stomach the splatter, that is.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

While it's more than a little sick, and will likely leave you queasy by the time the credits roll, EXCISION is nonetheless a truly unique horror ride into the scariest of all places- the mind of a teenaged misfit.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10