A freaky 18-year old girl who seems to have a hard time getting along with everyone, especially her bitchy, strict mother, is obsessed with performing surgery and losing her virginity while on her period. This fixation seems to stem from frequent dreams she has involving gruesome operations, abortion and necrophilia. Her younger sister is suffering from Cystic Fibrosis and her father is a spineless, hen-pecked lump who has been successfully beaten down by the oppressive presence of the mother. However, the ongoing defiance and hastening mental deterioration of the eldest daughter adds to extra strain on the household and it all ramps up to a pretty obvious, but still nicely fucked up conclusion.
Wasn't really expecting such a full-on comedy outta this one, but I actually found that kinda cool. All of the performances are pretty sound - specifically the main teen character and the mom. Though AnnaLynne McCord does a pretty noteworthy job in the lead role, I really couldn't get onboard with her character, seeing as how she was just so over-the-top unlikable. She did it very well, I just couldn't get behind anything she was doing and just couldn't help but think there would have been a tad more... 'vitality' in her character had she been given a little more of a sympathetic characteristic. She's really just flat-out nasty, bitchy and one-dimensional. I'd say, however, that Traci Lords really steals the show more since her role as the exasperated mother shows significantly more depth due to the fact that her character is actually going through something arduous; having to juggle a sick younger daughter and a truly hateable older, psychotic daughter. I guess that would be my one actual gripe concerning "Excision". In terms of crazy broads, she didn't reach the ranks of "May" or that psycho bitch from "The Loved Ones", to name only a few. And if I were to pick one other minor thing to nit-pick, the cameos from Malcolm McDowell, John Waters and Ray Wise were incredibly brief and unnecessary. Aside from that, I really dug the 'style' of a few key moments, especially the dream sequences, which are all pretty bizarre and bloody. Most of this stuff doesn't really seem to go anywhere, in terms of furthering the plot, but the plot itself is basically just this teenage girl's descent into madness, fueled by her antisocial behavior and surgical obsession, so you pretty much just gotta roll with it.
In all, "Excision" is a pretty unique flick. Much more than a lot of new horror films I've seen recently. Check it out.
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