Excision's premise is an interesting one; the film depicts the life of a disturbed and delusional
High School Student with aspirations of a career in medicine and the extremes to which she goes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. She fantasizes about performing surgery on the other students.
Excision is also a pretty film, with some gorgeous dream/fantasy sequences that are filled with all sorts of bloody carnage. It's an impressive little package that delivers a bunch of good things to we, the viewer... and yet, we really didn't care.
I'm going to say that I personally was probably not in the frame of mind I needed to be in to appreciate a movie like
Excision; a few minutes into the flick, I said to those around me "Is this a
John Waters flick?," and then I popped onto
IMDB to check. No, it wasn't one of
Waters' crazy oddities... and yet he was in it. Coincidence? Methinks not.
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| What craziness is this? |
Excision feels like an old-school campy cult flick like
Heathers, which is normally a good thing in my book, but it just rubbed me the wrong way. I think it's a good flick, and lots of our peeps will like it.
Since I know it's a decent flick even though I didn't care for it, I think a
C grade is fair. Middle of the road. Maybe one day I'll re-watch this movie when I'm in the right frame of mind, and I'll end up liking it. Until then, I hope it gets the love it deserves from elsewhere.
C
Annalynne McCord +
Traci Lords = double perfection.
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