What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old. Richard Bates Jr.’s Excision is a terrific little slice of adolescent nastiness. It tells the story of Pauline, an alienated and alienating teenager (90210’s AnnaLynne McCord, doing a cheeky spin on the kind of anti-makeover, Charlize Theron-in-Monster-type of Oscar-bait performances, hereafter dubbed anti-glam roles) whose erotic fascination with all the messy viscera of the human body manifests in an ongoing series of deeply awkward and uncomfortable scenarios, slowly building to a brutal and blood-spattered climax. Like many a horror film (Lucky McKee’s superb May being the most obvious example), Excision finds fertile ground in the world of young women discovering their awakening sexuality, and the unexpected ways their bodies and minds respond to these new and difficult-to-control feelings. Advertisement … [Read more...] about Sometimes, the staying power of horror has nothing to do with fear