Bizarre and boundary-pushing, Excision takes familiar horror elements and reinvents them in fulfilling ways and pushes the genre to disturbing heights.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2023

Raw, honest, funny and heartbreaking (with an ending that will leave you breathless), Richard Bates Jr.'s debut film is nothing short of brilliant.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 16, 2021

Excision is a confronting, incredibly upsetting and entertaining film with two iconic performances by AnnaLynne McCord and Traci Lords. It's witty, caustic, profane and sexy and that's all before the devastating ending absolutely destroys you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2021

Excision has a delightfully depraved center with a knockout performance from AnnaLynne McCord.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2019

Masquerades as a teen horror comedy, but the real story is the degenerative mental condition of the lead character.

| Feb 28, 2019

A fine example of genre filmmaking that's positively brooding with tongue-in-cheek satire and vulgar, macabre imagery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2019

Excisionis a brilliant film that examines one girl who forcefully stands out.

| Aug 21, 2018

It's the take-no-prisoners enthusiasm with which Bates leaps into his suburban nightmare that makes Excision so interesting.

| Aug 26, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 8, 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.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2012

I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped.

| Nov 4, 2012

There's an element of parody to this jet-black comedy, but the film is so creepy that it gets under our skin.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2012

You wait years for one quirky, necrophiliac, indie horror to arrive and then...well, only one turns up. Excision is probably why.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2012

A very strange and rather disgusting indie thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2012

An overripe mlange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2012

It won't be to many people's taste, but for those with strong stomachs, Excision presents a strain of horror that's grounded in real life, and one with more potency that most conventional slasher/torture fare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2012

Brave, transgressive, disgusting, thrilling - and boasting a 90210-defying turn from an uglified AnnaLynne McCord - Excision could have been this generation's Carrie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2012

Like the lovechild of Carrie and Napoleon Dynamite, Pauline is the oddball hero of a truly impressive, eccentric teen horror.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2012

Bates' piercing originality and keen eye for framing and ear for dialogue sets it own precedents, standing tall on the stooped shoulders of Pauline and her teen-dream bloodlust.

| Jun 15, 2012