All good parents want to encourage their kids’ hopes, dreams and aspirations. However, when your daughter is obsessed with performing surgeries without a medical license, that might be a dream you want to quash. In Richard Bates Jr.‘s spectacularly unsettling short horror movie Excision, Pauline (Tessa Ferrer) is your typical rebellious, moody teenager, but instead of getting high or having sex, she prefers wielding a scalpel and a retractor. And, if you don’t happen to be a doctor and don’t know what a retractor does, well, watch the film to find out…
There are lots of elements that make Excision so effectively creepy and disturbing, from the grotesque premise to Bates’ tight script to the outlandish fantasy sequences contrasted with the mundanity of suburbia. However, the true heart and soul of the film — or should that be heart and guts — is the fully committed and twisted performance...
There are lots of elements that make Excision so effectively creepy and disturbing, from the grotesque premise to Bates’ tight script to the outlandish fantasy sequences contrasted with the mundanity of suburbia. However, the true heart and soul of the film — or should that be heart and guts — is the fully committed and twisted performance...
- 2/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Writer: Richard Bates Jr.
Would you take a life to save the life of someone you love? This is the central moral dilemma that Pauline (Tessa Ferrer) faces, as her sister Grace (Carly Hobson) slowly succumbs to cystic fibrosis. A horror short that clocks in at eighteen minutes, it is no surprise why Excision has won at least twenty-four awards.
An excellent performance from Tessa Ferrer and the other minor characters, the story, execution, and denouement (conclusion) of Excision are near flawless. Currently in the film festival circuit Excision must be seen by horror fans! Check out the website of the film for film festival screenings, often!
Acting/believability/characterizations: 7.5.
Story/writing/plot: 8.
Conclusion/editing/continuity: 8.
Overall: 7.75 Bulging Eyes out of 10 (wow).
The website for Excision here:
http://www.excisionfilm.com/...
Writer: Richard Bates Jr.
Would you take a life to save the life of someone you love? This is the central moral dilemma that Pauline (Tessa Ferrer) faces, as her sister Grace (Carly Hobson) slowly succumbs to cystic fibrosis. A horror short that clocks in at eighteen minutes, it is no surprise why Excision has won at least twenty-four awards.
An excellent performance from Tessa Ferrer and the other minor characters, the story, execution, and denouement (conclusion) of Excision are near flawless. Currently in the film festival circuit Excision must be seen by horror fans! Check out the website of the film for film festival screenings, often!
Acting/believability/characterizations: 7.5.
Story/writing/plot: 8.
Conclusion/editing/continuity: 8.
Overall: 7.75 Bulging Eyes out of 10 (wow).
The website for Excision here:
http://www.excisionfilm.com/...
- 11/2/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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