Excision – review

Excision, starring Anna Lynn McCord
Excision, starring the 'fantastic' Anna Lynn McCord. PR

I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped. It may not be everyone's cup of tea. AnnaLynne McCord plays Pauline, a high-school student with a deep fondness for blood and an absolute loathing of pretty much everything girls her age should like. She has a mother (Traci Lords) who is a total bitch, a father (Roger Bart) who seriously needs to grow a pair and a sister (Ariel Winter) who has cerebral palsy and could do with a lung transplant some time soon. Not to give too much away, but transplants are, like, totally Pauline's thing. McCord is fantastic as Pauline, clammy-faced and yet so very sassy, and the film, beneath its shiny surface, has plenty to say about the lot of the 21st-century teenage girl and just how miserable it is.