Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Sep 22, 2023 4/5

Bizarre and boundary-pushing, Excision takes familiar horror elements and reinvents them in fulfilling ways and pushes the genre to disturbing heights.

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Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Jun 16, 2021 4.5/5

Raw, honest, funny and heartbreaking (with an ending that will leave you breathless), Richard Bates Jr.'s debut film is nothing short of brilliant.

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Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Jun 13, 2021 4/5

Excision is a confronting, incredibly upsetting and entertaining film with two iconic performances by AnnaLynne McCord and Traci Lords. It's witty, caustic, profane and sexy and that's all before the devastating ending absolutely destroys you.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Jul 8, 2019 4/5

Excision has a delightfully depraved center with a knockout performance from AnnaLynne McCord.

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Naila Scargill Exquisite Terror Feb 28, 2019

Masquerades as a teen horror comedy, but the real story is the degenerative mental condition of the lead character.

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Patrick Gamble CineVue Feb 5, 2019 3/5

A fine example of genre filmmaking that's positively brooding with tongue-in-cheek satire and vulgar, macabre imagery.

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Deirdre Crimmins Film Thrills Aug 21, 2018

Excisionis a brilliant film that examines one girl who forcefully stands out.

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Scott Weinberg TheHorrorShow Aug 26, 2015

It's the take-no-prisoners enthusiasm with which Bates leaps into his suburban nightmare that makes Excision so interesting.

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Antonia Quirke Financial Times Nov 8, 2012 1/5

McCord's elfin face has been transformed here with fake heavy eyebrows into something disturbingly simian and her low, uncouth voice provides a really weird sexual charge.

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Matt Donato We Got This Covered Nov 4, 2012 7/10

Excision isn't for the weak of heart or those hoping for a simple-minded watch, but can most certainly be a rewarding endeavor for any viewer needing a good character piece full of personalities worth a good psycho-analysis.

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Rachel Cooke Observer (UK) Nov 4, 2012

I liked this teen comedy-horror flick an awful lot. But then I'm warped.

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Rich Cline Contactmusic.com Nov 2, 2012 3.5/5

There's an element of parody to this jet-black comedy, but the film is so creepy that it gets under our skin.

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Steve Rose Guardian Nov 1, 2012 2/5

It could have been David Cronenberg meets Todd Solondz, but ends up more of a cautionary cartoon on things you shouldn't try at home.

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Michael Papadopoulos Sky Cinema Oct 31, 2012 2/5

You wait years for one quirky, necrophiliac, indie horror to arrive and then...well, only one turns up. Excision is probably why.

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Andy Lea Daily Star (UK) Oct 30, 2012 3/5

A very strange and rather disgusting indie thriller.

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Nigel Floyd Time Out Oct 30, 2012 3/5

An overripe mlange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness.

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Eddie Harrison The List Oct 29, 2012 4/5

It won't be to many people's taste, but for those with strong stomachs, Excision presents a strain of horror that's grounded in real life, and one with more potency that most conventional slasher/torture fare.

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Rosie Fletcher Total Film Oct 29, 2012 3/5

Brave, transgressive, disgusting, thrilling - and boasting a 90210-defying turn from an uglified AnnaLynne McCord - Excision could have been this generation's Carrie.

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Kim Newman Empire Magazine Oct 29, 2012 5/5

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

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Simon Foster Screen-Space (Substack) Jun 15, 2012

Bates' piercing originality and keen eye for framing and ear for dialogue sets it own precedents, standing tall on the stooped shoulders of Pauline and her teen-dream bloodlust.

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