Tuesday, October 7, 2014

American Mary (2013)

A surgical med student, Mary Mason (Katherine Isabelle), is falling behind on all of her bill payments.

In order to continue paying for her  schooling, Mary apply's for a job as an exotic dancer at a local club but due to her medical experience, she is asked by the club owner Billy (Antonio Cupa), to help him stitch up a person he has held hostage for $5000 in cash, no questions asked. She agrees, stitches the victim up and takes the money on her way out the door.

She is contacted the next day by one of the girls who works in the club to do an unorthodox cosmetic surgery. After some hesitation, Mary decides to take the job and decides to make the world of underground body transformations her new full time job.

This one was written by the Solsa twins (whom also portrayed the German twins in the movie) and  found the dialogue to be excellent throughout the film.

My biggest gripe with this movie is that, in my personal opinion, it should not be considered a horror. There were a few parts that had a bit of blood in it, but really nothing that I would claim to be horror.

The reveal of the torture to her victim was neat but really didn't do much for me otherwise.
The movie also seemed to follow the typical pattern of girl get raped, girl exacts revenge and so on which made this one unfortunately predictable with no twist ending to give me a last minute change of opinion.

There was nothing special about this film with the exception of the character dialogue as I mentioned earlier and will have to rate it as a 4 out of 10.

Seeing as there is no re-watchability to this, it's really a one shot deal. So I hope you are able to enjoy it more than I was able too.

Thanks for reading and don't forget to comment, e-mail (kyle.lafreniere@gmail.com) or tweet me @kylelafreniere .

Have a great day!


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