Weird, dark, disturbing, funny and bloody! ***Excision*** is a twisted psychological coming of age body horror with themes of mental illness, family values, religion... I was going to say it's about identity too but not really. From the very first scene we see Pauline she knows exactly who she is, it's less about figuring it out and more about living it. Because of that her character feels more mature than it maybe should be sinse she's a teen. Still, this was a great character study and AnnaLynne McCord was great from start to finish. Great dark comedy and the dialogue surprised me a few times.


I'll keep it vague but the last scene; [spoiler]it was predictable but it didn't matter to me that it was predictable, because it's the perfect ending to give to this movie. The last few seconds though, the execution could have been better. A character's reaction felt forced/unrealistic to me and the acting faltered in that critical last shot. Maybe focusing on the other character's face would have been the solution.[/spoiler] For that it loses some points but it was still a great journey of a movie and something I won't forget for a while. A very tragic story on many levels but the symbolism and social critique at the end was the biggest gut punch, a shocking reality i've rarely seen put on film.