American Mary (2012)

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

A new Canadian body horror flick that's been causing a bit of excitement recently. Zoey Deschanel- or some totally different actress who is channeling her- is a med school drop out who gets into some seriously freaky body modification. Then after being raped at an improbable seeming party she overnight becomes a sadistic psychopath who puts her rapist through fourteen hours of pretty disgusting torture. Ever seen Ichi The Killer? The Soska's have. Anyway after she's done that the film still has a good fifty minutes to go and the Soska's aren't really to sure how to fill the time or indeed what the plot is now and things ramble along aimlessly for a while and then it ends. Really don't get the excitement surrounding this. It does look nice and the Soska's take every opportunity to get Zooey in her underwear, which is appreciated, but after you've seen that a couple times there are probably better ways to spend the rest of your evening.

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Funny, I almost started a thread on this the other day asking if anyone had seen it yet and got distracted. There's a LOT of hype going around about this movie lately, I haven't seen it myself but I'm almost tired of it already without having checked it out yet. With that said, Katharine Isabelle is kind of cool. At least I thought she was in Ginger Snaps. She was in Freddy Vs. Jason too, which wasn't quite so cool.

I don't have much else to add except that I'm impressed how well the marketing team behind this movie have managed to get a buzz going around about it.

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The SOSKA SISTERS really should have a good grip on nasty horror as they were in Lucifer Valentine's Slow Torture Puke Chamber.......

Disappointed that it seems like it doesn't work at all.....Oh well...

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With that said, Katharine Isabelle is kind of cool. At least I thought she was in Ginger Snaps. She was in Freddy Vs. Jason too, which wasn't quite so cool.

That was the Ginger Snaps chick! I knew she was familiar.

As far as getting the word out, it's a pretty out there concept for a budgeted movie and I think that helps a lot. However having two young, reasonably hots girls for writer and director is basically unheard of. Round my parts they are folk legends and actually turned up at a little show locally a couple of months back to do drinking contests on stage with the punters. Which was cool. A little random but cool.

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I only know of them from Slow Torture Puke Chamber, but yeah, having hot twins behind the camera probably adds something to the appeal.

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Disappointed that it seems like it doesn't work at all.....Oh well...

Only in my opinion of course. You'll find plenty about who disagree vehemently. I just think that it's scenes are misordered. What happens halfway through should happen at the end and everything would make sense. The film charts a downward spiral. As our heroine hits rock bottom 40 minutes in where does that leave the film? I've actually ripped the film and moved it into Edius and have been tinkering with it for the last 20 minutes. By some basic reordering I think I can make a pretty cool movie out of this still haven't wroked out yet whether I can make it make sense as I'm lacking some connective tissue to tie the scenes together in the new order.

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Only in my opinion of course. You'll find plenty about who disagree vehemently. I just think that it's scenes are misordered. What happens halfway through should happen at the end and everything would make sense. The film charts a downward spiral. As our heroine hits rock bottom 40 minutes in where does that leave the film? I've actually ripped the film and moved it into Edius and have been tinkering with it for the last 20 minutes. By some basic reordering I think I can make a pretty cool movie out of this still haven't wroked out yet whether I can make it make sense as I'm lacking some connective tissue to tie the scenes together in the new order.

After reading your words I searched out a few more reviews of it.....Most agreed the first 40 mins are well worth watching ...but that the second half of the movie is disjointed, wandering and unecessary.......

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Actually in re-editing the film a couple lines that I just passed over on an initial viewing really stood out to me. They seeemed like leftovers from an earlier draft that didn't really make sense in the context of the finished movie. THEORY: I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that this film was originally scripted as a Dexter style vigilante tale about a girl who mutilates wrongdoers. If that was what it was then the structure suddenly makes a lot more sense because then her first murder- which seems like it should be the last scene- would just be the start point for her future activities. It seems to me that they junked that idea- which would have been even more noncommercial- and then did not restructure the film to take into account the new direction.

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That's a bit annoying if they did that!

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This has got to be one of the most-hyped indy horror movies in quite some time. Since Human Centipede, I would say.

Or maybe it just seems that way to me, since it's a local Vancouver movie, so I know a lot of people who know people in it. Met the Soskas a couple times around town at various events in the city, and I've known Tristan Risk who is in it, for years.

Still haven't seen the movie, though. Man, I have a hard time getting a nut-up for new horror movies, for some reason. All I wanna watch are old ones.

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Domestic DVD & Blu-ray release happening 6/18/13.