![]() It’s a hard sell of a movie that never quite obeys the rules of the road, making it a difficult watch for some who can’t easily categorize its intentions which seem to straddle multiple genres. By giving Pauline agency in her fantasies that she doesn’t possess in her real life, Bates explores the balance of the real and the surreal even as the line between the two begins to collapse.īallsy, hilarious, and brutal, Excision was a special something that never quite got the love it deserved due to a tiny release and the disappearing into the ether. Bates finds a difficult and sometimes uneasy balance between grim body horror and Lynchian dark comedy rendered through a teen girl coming of age. Pauline’s batch of teenage angst is instantly recognizable and sympathetic, unique to her, rendered in the extreme, but hardly foreign to most people. Pauline engages in surreal body horror fantasy sequences that horrifies and disgusts as it amuses and endears. Of course, she’s a teenager, and these wires get cornered with body image issues and sexual fantasies, making for a particularly gruesome mixture.įor a first film, written and directed by Richard Bates, Jr., Excision is surprisingly assured. Determined to actually make her mother love her, Pauline harbors fantasies of becoming a doctor and being able to cure Grace and become a hero. ![]() ![]() These are the cards that have been dealt to Pauline, who has been living in the shadow of her younger and more popular sister, Grace. But, when your younger, much prettier, sister has cystic fibrosis, and is the favored one of the family, and you’re already ostracized from the rest of your school…well, sometimes it’s a bit much for some teenagers. Being a teenager is hard enough on its own.
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