Excision
Heal The Sickness
2012 | 81m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Richard Bates Jr. |
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| Writer: | Richard Bates Jr. |
| Staring: |
| Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 12, 2012 |
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| Director: | Richard Bates Jr. |
| Writer: | Richard Bates Jr. |
| Genres: | Drama, Horror |
| Keywords | first time, surgeon, teenage girl, loss of virginity, domineering mother, awkwardness, social outcast, lung transplant |
| Production Companies | Anchor Bay Films, New Normal Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| AnnaLynne McCord | Pauline |
| Traci Lords | Phyllis |
| Ariel Winter | Grace |
| Roger Bart | Bob |
| Jeremy Sumpter | Adam |
| John Waters | William |
| Malcolm McDowell | Mr. Cooper |
| Marlee Matlin | Amber |
| Matthew Gray Gubler | Mr. Claybaugh |
| Ray Wise | Principal Campbell |
| Molly McCook | Natalie |
| Natalie Dreyfuss | Abigail |
| Cole Bernstein | Kimberly |
| Matthew Fahey | Nathan |
| Sidney Franklin | Timothy |
| Brennan Bailey | Sebastian |
| Emily Bicks | Breanna |
| Cameron Allen | Young Pauline |
| Rachel Ann Mullins | Zombie (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Richard Bates Jr. | Director, Writer |
| Eshwin Dhir | Conceptual Illustrator |
| Carmen Aiello | Casting |
| Andrea von Foerster | Music Supervisor |
| Katharine Glasheen | Set Decoration |
| Anthony Tran | Costume Design |
| Yaron Kaver | Production Supervisor, First Assistant Director |
| Craig Potter | Property Master |
| Christos Voutsinas | Assistant Editor |
| Amanda King | Key Makeup Artist |
| Sam Kim | Production Manager |
| Steve Damstra II | Original Music Composer |
| Yvonne Valdez | Editor |
| Zachary Dehm | Assistant Editor |
| Marcos Butron Jr. | Boom Operator |
| Victoria Chenoweth | Lighting Technician |
| Jasper Granderath | First Assistant Camera |
| Eric Offin | Dialogue Editor |
| Lianto Poedijono | Boom Operator |
| Brian Formo | Art Department Coordinator, Set Decoration |
| Brandon Dimit | Steadicam Operator |
| James Cooney | First Assistant Director |
| Chris Andersen | Best Boy Electric |
| Matthias Martin | Still Photographer |
| Armen Ra | Production Design |
| Steve Ansell | Editor |
| Itay Gross | Director of Photography |
| Robert Platzer | Art Direction |
| Gary Sumpter | Construction Coordinator |
| Cris Alex | Makeup Effects |
| Henry Auerbach | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Elle Favorule | Makeup Department Head |
| Casey Genton | Sound Effects Editor |
| Frank R. Gardner | Line Producer |
| Lauren Reeves Thomas | Seamstress |
| Miko Nishida | Hairstylist |
| Edith Laflamme | Still Photographer |
| Stephen Imhoff | Makeup Effects |
| Ryan Collins | Sound Designer |
| Oliver Imfeld | Camera Operator |
| Shawn Matlock | Script Supervisor |
| Jeremy Graham | Gaffer |
| Mads Heldtberg | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Traci Lords | Associate Producer |
| Matt Zambetti | Co-Producer |
| Dylan Hale Lewis | Producer |
| Sloan Harris | Co-Producer |
| Ross Otterman | Co-Producer |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 20 | 30 | 12 |
| 2024 | 5 | 22 | 46 | 13 |
| 2024 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 10 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 8 |
| 2024 | 10 | 13 | 28 | 6 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 7 |
| 2025 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 8 |
| 2025 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
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The last cut is the deepest! AnnaLynne McCord stars as Pauline, a disturbed high school misfit who has delusions of becoming a surgeon. Dominated by her over bearing mother, Pauline battles with her sanity and unhealthy obsessions. Superb, a teen based horror that’s pungent with everything fro ... m necrophilia, growing pains, peer pressure, sexual anxiety, parental strife, mental illness and horror – real horror. Writer/director Richard Bates Junior does a brilliant job of filling an 80 minute movie with so many thematic smarts but never once over egging his bloody pudding. He gets excellent performances out of McCord and Traci Lords (as Pauline’s mother), whilst the blending of surreal imagery via Pauline’s dreams and the real world awkwardness – with some dry humour in the mix too – produces a picture that is in equal parts oddball and emotionally shattering. When Dead Ringers collides with Ginger Snaps, Excision will stay with you for days afterwards. 9/10