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Critic Kim Newman
rated 10

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

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Cast & Crew

Malcolm McDowell
As Mr. Cooper
John Waters
As William
Ray Wise
As Principal Campbell
Traci Lords
As Phyllis
Ariel Winter
As Grace

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Excision is a disturbing and thought-provoking film that delves into the mind of a delusional and disillusioned high school student named Pauline. With a grotesque fascination for flesh and blood, Pauline struggles to fit in with her peers and seek approval from her controlling mother. Her aspirations of becoming a surgeon are met with ridicule, leading her to retreat into her own fantasies of performing gruesome operations on others. As she navigates her way through adolescence, Pauline's grip on reality slowly begins to slip, culminating in a shocking and unsettling climax that will leave viewers questioning their own sanity.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Excision include The Girl Next Door, Bone Tomahawk, The Skin I Live In, Martyrs, Antichrist, mother!.

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Excision was released in theaters on November 2, 2012.