American Mary
The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason, a broke desperate medical student, through the messy world of underground surgeries which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele. Appearances are everything.
2 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 November 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 March 1982, Alliston, Ontario, Canada
10 January 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
10 March 1998, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 24, 2015
One of the strangest, darkest, and most confident "female-centric" horror flicks in quite some time.
November 12, 2013
Katharine Isabelle dominates the screen from the minute we meet her, and delivers a masterful performance.
May 31, 2013
This is truly a cut above.
June 17, 2013
Watching Mary's unpleasant journey is intriguing and each character having identifiable quirks is a strong point, but unfortunately American Mary isn't really anything all that special otherwise.
May 31, 2013
It's a truly interesting slasher fest; in this one, the heroine gets to be both beauty and beast.
May 31, 2013
Writer-directors Jen and Sylvia Soska don't seem to have their material completely under control, but they've created a worthy entry in the Freaks school of cult cinema.
May 30, 2013
Combines gore, quiet dread, feminist conviction and a visual classicism, often using a red palette, with impressive, unbelabored dexterity.
May 31, 2013
Writer-director siblings Jen and Sylvia Soska allow their film to turn slack and unfocused after an enticingly lurid, wickedly tense first half.
November 25, 2013
A sensational opening makes the disappointing final act hurt all the more as American Mary falls in a heap in its final act.
June 14, 2013
Sexy and delightfully deadpan, Katharine Isabelle absolutely kills it as loner med student Mary, so passionate about perfecting her surgical skills that she spends her evenings suturing turkey flesh.
June 27, 2013
Alt horror about a Seattle surgery drop-out is a mediocre specimen of the Canadian kinky flesh genre of "Antiviral," "Crash" and "Kissed." End credits say "For Eli Roth."
July 02, 2013
The almost excessively uneven narrative does, in the end, cancel out the effectiveness of the film's positive attributes...
