Excision

Excision is a 2012 American psychological horror film written and directed by Richard Bates, Jr., and starring AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, Jeremy Sumpter, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Gray Gubler, Marlee Matlin, Ray Wise, and John Waters. The film is a feature-length adaptation of the 2008 short film of the same name. Excision premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Excision played in the category of Park City at Midnight. Plot Pauline is a disturbed and delusional high school student with a dysfunctional family and aspirations of a career as a surgeon. Her younger sister, Grace, suffers from cystic fibrosis, and the girls' controlling, strongly Christian mother Phyllis shares a strained marriage with their father, Bob. Pauline often has vivid dreams about herself and others being mutilated with excessive amounts of blood, after which she wakes panting in an orgasmic state. Pauline decides to lose her virginity to a boy named Adam, and wants to do so while on her period due to her fascination with blood. She and Adam have sex, and as she has an orgasm, she imagines herself choking Adam and the bed filling with blood. She then asks Adam to perform oral sex on her. Unaware that she is menstruating, he obliges, only to run to the bathroom in disgust when he sees the blood. During sex education class, Pauline takes a sample of her blood and puts it under a microscope to check for STDs. She later approaches Adam while he is with his girlfriend Natalie and alludes to their encounter, leading to Natalie breaking up with him. Natalie and her friend subsequently throw toilet paper and spray paint profanities on Pauline's house. At school the next day, Pauline physically assaults both Adam and Natalie, resulting in her being expelled.