Excision

Based on Writer/Director Richard Bates, Jr.'s short film of the same name, Excision follows a disturbed and delusional high school student, Pauline (McCord). Pauline, with aspirations of a career in medicine, goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother (Lords). While dealing with both being an outcast teenager and having an obsession over curing her sister's fibrosis, Pauline becomes increasingly deranged as her fascination with surgery and flesh and blood grows into something compulsive and demonic, if not epic. (Gary Reber)