Excision
A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother while plotting to lose her virginity and save her sister from the ravaging effects of cystic fibrosis.
13 June 1943, Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
21 November 1965, USA
5 March 1987, Petaluma, California, USA
20 August 1947, Akron, Ohio, USA
23 January 1997, USA
9 March 1980, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 01, 2012
This disturbing, demented psychodrama cuts to the heart of teen growing pains.
August 26, 2015
It's the take-no-prisoners enthusiasm with which Bates leaps into his suburban nightmare that makes Excision so interesting.
October 30, 2012
An overripe mélange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness.
November 04, 2012
I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped.
January 23, 2012
Excision is a supremely nasty piece of work in the best way possible.
November 02, 2012
There's an element of parody to this jet-black comedy, but the film is so creepy that it gets under our skin.
November 08, 2012
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.
November 02, 2012
charting the horrors of adolescent alienation... writer/director Richard Bates Jr. is the exciting new face of disturbing, demented psychodrama.
January 23, 2012
This is one of the damnedest "adolescent misfit" movies you'll ever see -- for those who can stomach the splatter, that is.
November 01, 2012
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.
November 04, 2012
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.
January 24, 2012
Excision is technically polished juvenilia that provokes without resonance.
