REVIEW: “Excision” (2012)

Even the poster is creepy.

SYNOPSIS: High school oddball Pauline (normally gorgeous Annalynne McCord, nearly unrecognizable here) believes she is destined for greatness as a surgeon. She works toward this goal by reading medical texts, sending away for dissection kits – and practicing on roadkill.

She’s awkward, pimpled, scraggly-haired, and given to wildly inappropriate behavior and comments. So Pauline’s misunderstood by everyone at school, the family priest (John Waters – let that sink in: John Fucking Waters plays a priest), and her entire family, with the exception of younger sister Grace (Modern Family‘s Ariel Winter). Grace is the favored daughter – personable, sweet, outgoing, pretty, and all her sister is not – but suffers from steadily advancing cystic fibrosis.