May, the force wasn't with you

May is a mixed bag of horror. I mean I could say, mixed body of horror.

It provides you with slight dark comedy and a harrowing storyline which for me really pulled at my introvert heart strings. So yeah, its a 2002 psychologic, drama, horror.

Our main lady, May, was unfortunate to be born with a lazy eye which of course caused her to have a very difficult time making friends whilst she was growing up. Her mom gives her this creepy ass looking doll which must remain in its glass box. She names her Suzie and it becomes her one true friend. Due to lack of social skills we watch weird, shy May in her 20s struggling to make normal human interactions. She mets a guy named Adam and is obsessed with his ‘perfect’ hands, Angela Bettis who plays May does a great job showcasing the characters awkwardness to try and interact when she’s not accustomed too engaging with other people. Throughout their time spent together you watch on almost cringing for her, but also laughing in parts. We watch Adams film Jack and Jill, which ends up being one hell of a messed up little movie clip, but May digs it, she’s cool with it, she’s weird and now she thinks he’s weird too. So things ramp up, it get a bit sexual and she pushes things a little out of Adams comfort zone.

We get a nice intimate scene with May and Polly played by our quirky Anna Faris but sadly, things start to go haywire for May at this point, she’s slowly going psychotic.

The way they started to break the glass on her dolls box was very clever I feel, to me its as though its symbolising the inside of her cracking, bit by bit. Anyways, a very messed up and unforgettable moment of the doll crashing to the floor at the hands of a group of blind children, really does break any last shred of sanity left with poor May. The woman’s gone, mentally, she has broken into just as many pieces as that box and she turns into Frankenstein. Yet again, another great performance from Bettis, who’s entire verbalisation changes, we no longer have this awkward woman trying to fit in and make friends, we have a dark, unapologetic, sexy ass bitch set out to make herself a new true friend.

I was defiantly invested in this movie, I do feel some of the acting in parts from other characters were a bit questionable, whether that was the purpose of the script or not, who knows? But I was defiantly surprised with how the story progressed, it had a lot of moments my jaw dropped a little as I turned to my partner with a look of ‘Great Odin’s Raven’ with the same expression looking back. It wasn’t a horror in which scares you out of your seat, and its not one with awful gore, but a horror which brings you on a journey of an unstable mind, and for me that’s the horrifying part. That and right towards the end she stabs out her own eyeball, I mean, anything involving eyes just makes me want to vom, even just writing this I’m envisioning the scene in Saw with the razor and the eye ball and nope nope and more nope. Im Out.

3.5 stabbed out eye balls out of 5