i love love love katherine isabelle so maybe i'm a bit biased regarding this movie. but i genuinely liked it. i didn't really know what to expect from the movie because i hadn't watched a trailer beforehand, i just watched it because of her. and i was pleasantly surprised.

the character of mary is loveable - at first she's appalled and shocked with this new world she's slipped into which is an undestandable reaction. as the movie progresses she's getting more and more cold-blooded but not in a 'evil' kinda way... she just learns to cope with all the stuff she sees in her own way.

the other characters she meets are diverse, unique and interesting - noone is really boring or predictable. and surprisingly noone is annoying either.

the music was great - i loved the 'ave maria' when she's working.

the only thing that 'bugged' me a bit was the impossibilty of saying how much time passed between two scenes/cerrtain events. it's nothing big, mostly you pick up through conversation if a lot of time has passed or not, so really nothing too confusing.

some people thought that the ending was a bit abrupt but i don't think so. i liked the ending just like it was because i couldn't imagine it any other way - some fairytale happy ending or her doing this illegal stuff for a long, long time would not be right for this movie, i would destroy the flow.

all in all a great movie with interesting characters, a unique story and a beautiful katherine isabelle.

Caustic Cuttings.

Some horror fans love it, others not so much, which where horror film fans are concerned comes as absolutely no surprise. So roll the dice and take your chance here then!

American Mary is written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska. Katharine Isabelle (looking uncannily like Mary Elizabeth Winstead) stars as the titular Mary of the title. She's a medical student who during a cash crisis is lured to the underground world of surgeries not deemed as the norm in medical school circles...

Hoo-hah! Get ready for sexual deviance, dismemberment, human splicing and a whole host of other things that are brilliantly caked in a caustic satirical sauce by the Soska girls. Imagery is strong, the aftertaste lasting as you enter at your own peril a world of repugnant beings masquerading as humans, of fetishists pushing the boundaries, it's noirville but not as we know it Jim. But always there's a pierced and bloody tongue prodding the cheek, even if the odd period of time spent in bizarro world fails to add up.

Wonderful. Go Mary! Go Soska Girls! Just don't call on me any time soon, huh... 8/10