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May Canady
Adam
Polly
Blank
Ambrosia
Papa Canady
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Critic Reviews for May
All Critics (68) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (21)
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Benefits from bursts of gory black humor as well as Bettis' riveting performance.
January 9, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review… -
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September 3, 2003 | Rating: B -
Too much of a hodgepodge of borrowed ideas and uneven tone.
July 11, 2003 | Rating: C- | Full Review… -
Part Carrie, part Frankenstein and still shlockier bits and pieces, May isn't seamless. But boy is it hard to avert one's eyes from this creature ready-made for the midnight-movie circuit.
June 27, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 -
A bizarre (and sometimes repulsive) exercise that's a little too willing to swoon in its own weird embrace.
June 27, 2003 | Rating: C -
Yet, it isn't until May starts becoming Dr. Frankenstein that she gains real self assurance and suddenly Bettis' timorous mannerisms morph into a malevolent cockiness that's at once empowering and scary-as-hell all at the same time.
June 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for May
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Apr 06, 2015A wonderfully dark and playful horror flick, May lives in the same weird vein as American Mary and Ginger Snaps, two other woman-lead wonders of the horror genre that focus primarily on femininity and exposing a certain mythos that connects vanity, self-love and loathing, sex, death and gore. Certainly smarter and more self-aware than it would like to admit, May is worth a watch or two. It isn't necessarily scary, but it leaves a mark.Harry W Super Reviewer
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Aug 02, 2012A girl with a lazy eye grows up as a social outcast with a doll as her only friend; she gets corrective lenses as a young adult and is suddenly set loose on the dating world with no social skills and a dangerously loose grip on reality. An effective, creepy character study for the first two thirds, but it takes an unfortunate turn into predictable slasher territory for the climax.Greg S Super Reviewer
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Apr 08, 2012I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this one, but I may be a little freaked out. Here we have a girl who lives in her own world that she's made in every sense of the word. Something on it's own, unique trip to a dark place within a darker mind; and I say alright.Eric S Super Reviewer
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Mar 25, 2012May is one of the most twisted movies you're going to find. It's a wonderfully done movie about a girl who didn't just go past the breaking point, she lived there all her life. Angela Bettis created a uniquely twisted character, who I couldn't help but like. The rest of the cast is just as good. Sisto is a standard good actor in whatever he does, and this is the first movie Anna Faris showed she was more than just a Scary Movie actress. May unfolds at a methodical pace, but the happenings are put together to give the film a quiet intensity. May is a very obvious movie, which could be considered its only flaw, if you want to consider it that. I can't say enough how great a job Bettis did. I have no doubt it still would have been an OK movie, at the very least, but Bettis knocked it out of the park. I seriously couldn't recommend May to everyone, but this is a wonderfully twisted horror movie, with way more build than slashing, but is worth every second.Jason C Super Reviewer
May Quotes
May Canady: | Where's Polly? |
Ambrosia: | In the head. Polly, hurry up in there! I've been drinking vodka all night and I have to piss like a racehorse! |
May Canady: | [giggles] hm-hm |
Ambrosia: | (gets annoyed and mimics May's giggle) - UM-HM! |
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