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Written
& Directed by: Lucky McKee
Starring:
Angela
Bettis .... May Dove
Canady
Jeremy Sisto .... Adam
Stubbs
Anna Farris .... Polly
Special
Appearances:
James Duval .... Blank
Nichole Hiltz ....
Ambrosia
Release
Dates: Sundance
Film Festival: January
31, 2002; San Francisco
Film Festival: April 20,
2002; Cannes Film
Festival: May 18, 2002
(France); Seattle
International Film
Festival: June 8,
2002;Florida Film
Festival: June 8, 2002;
Los Angeles Film
Festival: June 27, 2002;
World Film Festival:
August 23, 2002 (Canada);
Athens International Film
and Video Festival:
September 14, 2002; Lund
Fantastisk Film Festival:
September 22, 2002;
Sitges Film Festival:
October 6, 2002; Semana
de Cine Fantástico y de
Terror de San Sebastián:
November 2, 2002;
Gerardmer Film Festival:
February 1, 2003;
Brussels International
Festival of Fantasy
Films: March 24, 2003;
Fantastic Film Festival:
April 11, 2003 (France);
Dead by Dawn Edinburgh
Horror Film Festival:
April 26, 2003; Limited
Theatrical: May 8, 2003;
Limited Theatrical: June
6, 2003 (USA): Hamburg
Fantasy Filmfest: August
20, 2003; L'Étrange
Festival: August 30, 2003*Images
courtesy at: www.outnow.ch
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An
estranged girl named May (Angela
Bettis) never fit in with the
crowd at school as she grew up
wearing a pirate's patch that
covered her lazy eye lid.
Well while growing up, her mother
Mama Canady (Merle Kennedy) gave
her a doll that she said was her
best friend and always talked to
it.
May has the doll and talks to it
now until she runs into a guy
named Adam (Jeremy Sisto) and she
is in total awe and will do
anything to grab his attention.
They finally hit it off but he is
finding her a little strange with
her actions.
She keeps talking to her doll and
finding ways to do the right
things.
She wants to make more friends
but somehow they don't turn out
the way she wants them.
While she accidently killed her
cat this gave her an idea so she
kills them and keeps their body
parts that are perfect and has a
twisted plan of her own.
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What a twisted and
disturbing film this was but it
was well done and it really makes
you cringe too.
At first it is a dark drama so I
thought they made a mistake by
categorising it as a horror but
then the horror does start in it
and does it ever.
If you are in a depressed mood
and love cats I would not
recommend this film at all.
A true psychopath love story.
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The acting is
terrific by all the cast members
who performed in this piece
especially by Angela Bettis
as May which you couldn't find a
better person to play a sick and
twisted character. She uses
similar elements like she did in
the remake of Carrie
but took it more to the extreme.
Jeremy Sisto also does
well and represents his character
as an eccentric type greatly. He
had the perfect looks too with
the role he was playing.
Anna Farris played a
perfect role as a working partner
of May's and great as a sleazy
lesbian who likes to fool around.
Supporting actress Nichole
Hiltz is terrific as a
beautiful lesbian whore with an
attitude.
A piece of a dogs
leg is revealed.
An animal is having surgery and
their insides are shown
A dead cat is in a freezer
Scissors is impaled in a heads
head
A lesbians throat is double slit
There are body pieces revealed
and sewn together.
An eye is stabbed out
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Lucky McKee
seems to do well directing his
actors even if you wonder where
the story is going.
He directs Angela Bettis'
actions very well like you were
watching her in Carrie except
she seems more intense thanks to
his direction on her and shows
her crying and then going crazy
at the same time making it look
believeable for a psychopath. It
very disturbing with her
obsessions and loneliness and
needing to be loved.
We have a great scene between
Bettis and Anna Farris at their
work rtogether when Farris tries
to come on strongly to Bettis
which makes you think "What
is wrong with this picture"
There was a nice touching scene
with her and Jeremy Sisto
in the laundry room when she
introduces him to her new pet cat
making you really want her and
someone who needs to be loved.
Oh god, then there's a real
disturbing scene with an
accidental killing of a cat and I
feared that was going to happen
which I found unnecessary. But
that's what made the film
disturbing, shocking and it was
the key scene to the horror story
in it
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The music was
composed by Jaye Barnes
Luckett as he shows some
nice piano music and other types
of symphony too.
We
have songtracks performed by James
Barnes Luckett, The
Breeders, The Kelley
Deal 6000, Angelo Metz,
Tommy James and the Shondells,
H is Orange, Alien
Tempo Experiment 13, The
Wedding's Off, The
Strangels and Thrill My
Wife
Mama:
I've always said, "If you
can't find a friend, make
one."
Polly:
Maybe we can hang out, eat some
melons.
May:
Okay. A couple of weeks ago, and
old man comes in, and says his
dog is dying. And he begs us to
save it. A 90-pound black lad
named Seymour. We take him in and
run some tests, and find that he
has a twisted bowel, and needs to
be operated on immediately. So we
shave Seymour's tummy, we cut him
open, and take out a piece of
intestine about--about the size
of a hot dog. Everything went
smooth, but... when we went to
sew Seymour back up, we realized
we were out of the heavy sutures
your supposed to use for large
dogs. So the doctor decided that
if we tripled up on cat sutures,
that should do the trick. Well...
a few days go by, and the old man
calls up hysterical. The sutures
had burst while he was at work,
and by the time he got home,
Seymour was sprawled out on the
back porch with his guts spread
all over the concrete, and the
fence was soaked in blood all
around the yard. It was a mess
[Adam stares in disgust]
May: . I had to sew that
one back up
[giggles]
May: .
Polly:
Do you like pussy?
May: What?
Polly: Cats. You like
pussy cats?
Polly:
Shut up, hooker!
May:
[to Suzy, the doll] I told
you to face the goddamn wall!
May:
You have really beautiful legs.
Ambrosia: I thought you
said they were gams.
May: Gams, stems,
wheels... whatever.
[May
is hiding two dead bodies in a
cooler]
Woman on Street: Hey, you
got any cold ones in there?
May: Yes, I do.
The DVD features:
Cast and
Crew Commentary
Production
Commentary
International
Trailer
English and
Spanish Subtitles
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