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May 2002
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

Rating:

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.

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.

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

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

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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