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Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Dan Franzen (dfranzen70) May is a horror film that was released in 2002. I know this only because I looked it up. Prior to adding it to my Netflix queue a short while back, I had never heard of the movie. And I wish I had! It's gross, unsettling, weird, and funny. Those are all qualities I look for in a horror film.The titular May (Angela Bettis) is an odd young lady who works as a veterinarian's assistant. She has a lazy eye that's mostly corrected by glasses and, later, contacts. And she also has an old doll in a glass case, a doll given to her by her mother when May was just a little girl who had just injured her subsequently lazy eye. That's quite a present, huh, a doll that you're not allowed to take out of the box.But fret not, viewers, this isn't about a possessed doll. It's about May, who's just plain not all there. May's coworker at the vet clinic is Polly (Anna Faris), who has intentions of her own with May. Meanwhile, May spots a mechanic she'd like to get more familiar with, Adam (Jeremy Sisto). But, you know, she's socially awkward and has no concept of personal space. So when her brief relationship with Adam ends and she runs into trust issues with Polly and her family-heirloom doll (made by mom, by the way) is irreparably damaged, May turns to her sewing skills to make do. Blood is then spilled.Love the acting. Bettis is essentially a grown-up Wednesday Addams (complete with an overabundance of forehead), and she embodies May with both innocence and a sort of civil evilness. Faris is stunning – and outstanding – as the promiscuous, amoral, and flighty Polly. Might be the best role Faris has ever had. And Sisto, looking a heck of a lot like a twentysomething John Travolta, also holds his own.I kind of think that if you like movies such as Re-Animator and Dead Alive, you'll go for this one as well. Seems like it should be better known, but it was sure new to me.

D Rahul Raj Jsd It's Oct 31st, Halloween (2016) and my first feature on this special day was Lucky McKee's May, starring The Iconic Angela Bettis, who is mesmerizing with her performance. Also featuring Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, Bret Roberts, James Duval, Jesse Hlubik and Kevin Gage. It's a very powerful movie with an emotional vibe to it that has realism about what's going on with some people's lives in this world. The part about May being alone and people find her being weird, which actually does have a strong connection with my life for my looks and my interest in horror films and stuff, which most people around me find strange. This is definitely a top favorite movie of mine which I have seen so many times, it's just so beautiful and touching the way it's made, and it connects with my heart every time I see it.

fabiogaucho "May", is pretty good. Too bad I had already seen a 2011 rip-off called "Alyce Kills", so I knew exactly what was going to happen. But I guess in 2002 it was fresh and surprising. What really did for me was a bunch of surprising lines. "Want to watch me file?"; "I don't think she could have bit the whole finger in just one bite, that part was far- fetched"; "That was sweet" (after seeing something bizarre); "reading about amputation just for fun"; "my dog had for legs, and when I came back from vacation one of them was missing".Just as in Alyce Kills, the movie has two very different halves. It is very tricky to keep both exciting, since they appeal to the viewer in such different ways - some people would wish the first half just got to the point already, while others will say the movie went downhill after the midpoint. I guess you can't help it, with this structure. The writer tried to solve this problem filling the first half with lots and lots of foreshadowing, but that resulted in predictability, now unity. I suppose you can make a sub-genre out of "May", but it needs some twists and new elements. Maybe one good element that can be pushed farther is more freakishness in the characters around May? There is already something here, that can be more explored. I like the idea of sickos surrounded by other sickos from which you don't know what to expect, like "House on the Edge of the Park", by Deodato. A twist near the end would help a lot. But it only came in the last 10 seconds. Though excellent, it wasn't enough. Also, a director that can create more mood. The movie is based on cringe, but it needs more.I obviously liked the movie. I hope someone can create something even creepier, more deranged and more unpredictable from this structure. I just want even more of what worked.

Harry Waterman A wonderfully dark and playful horror flick, May lives in the same weird vein as American Mary and Ginger Snaps, two other woman-lead wonders of the horror genre that focus primarily on femininity and exposing a certain mythos that connects vanity, self-love and loathing, sex, death and gore. Certainly smarter and more self-aware than it would like to admit, May is worth a watch or two. It isn't necessarily scary, but it leaves a mark. Some viewers might find whilst watching the film that the gore goes a little over-the-top at times, but I found that this really balances out the often coldly sexual tone and meandering mood of the film that varies between seductive and terrifying.