Fresh
An overripe melange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Excision
Heal The Sickness
2012 · 1h 21m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Horror
Directed by
Richard Bates Jr.
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Excision
Overview
Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.
Director and cast
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85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Excision is technically polished juvenilia that provokes without resonance.
Robert Koehler, Variety
Fresh
Excision is a supremely nasty piece of work in the best way possible.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Fresh
This is one of the damnedest "adolescent misfit" movies you'll ever see -- for those who can stomach the splatter, that is.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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