Not many horror movies can dig below the surface, but May does, and for that reason it deserves to be seen.
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06/24/03
May (2003)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:43
Rotten:20
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Above average slasher flick.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: As a child, May (Angela Bettis) had a lazy eye and had to wear a patch, which kept other children from befriending her. Her mother gave her a handmade doll, which became her only companion. Now, as... [More]
Starring: Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval
Director: Lucky McKee
Reviews for May
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06/05/04
It is alternately ridiculous, gruesome, unlikely and stupefying.
06/05/03
Until the mayhem takes over, May is a spunky little low-budget horror movie that knows its antecedents and conventions and tries to do them justice while keeping its tongue firmly planted in its cheek.
03/10/03
Lowdown genre fun, a film that nearly makes up in slacker wit and high-spirited gore what it lacks in budget and elegance.
06/13/03
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02/02/04
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07/02/03
Written and directed by Lucky McKee with a real flair for the conventions of the genre.
09/09/02
Director Lucky McKee has a knack for discomfiting material involving contact lenses and animal hospitals, but such moments are increasingly rare as he stretches his material.
08/25/03
A horror film and something more and deeper, something disturbing and oddly moving.
06/06/03
Top CriticA refreshing, macabre tale.
06/05/03
McKee's directing and screenwriting are unusually low-key for a psychological horror thriller, and Bettis is excellent as the disturbed antiheroine.
01/15/04
O terror originado pela loucura da protagonista foge do apelativo e investe no dramático, levando o espectador não apenas a temer May, mas a sentir compaixão pela garota.
10/30/04
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06/30/07
Too much of a hodgepodge of borrowed ideas and uneven tone.
07/11/03
Part Carrie, part Frankenstein and still shlockier bits and pieces, May isn't seamless. But boy is it hard to avert one's eyes from this creature ready-made for the midnight-movie circuit.
06/27/03
A bizarre (and sometimes repulsive) exercise that's a little too willing to swoon in its own weird embrace.
06/27/03
Not only one of the most auspicious and original independent features in years--particularly for a first-time filmmaker--but it is one of the best films of 2003...Genuinely disturbing.
07/11/03
There was no moment when I was scared by this thing.
06/09/03
There's no denying that May is simply NOT a film for all tastes, but if you like your genres stewed together and cooked into a film so sinfully wonderful that it defies description, I absolutely recommend you search this one out as soon as possible
03/16/03
Latest News for May
September 01, 2006:
Angela Bettis Signs on for HD/3-D Horror
Horror fans who enjoyed "The Toolbox Murders," "May," and the "Carrie" mini-series will want to keep an eye out for Angela Bettis in... More...
February 17, 2006:
Trailer Bulletin: The Woods
Curious to see a peek of "The Woods," an (eventually) upcoming horror flick from Lucky McKee, the guy who was cool enough to give us the cult classic "May"?... More...
June 27, 2005:
Paramount and MTV Films to Go "Beneath" Together
Paramount Classics and MTV Films will join forces for the first time to bring the psychological thriller "Beneath" to the big screen, according to The Hollywood... More...
May 13, 2005:
Lions Gate Slips Into "Skinwalkers"
Those Lions Gate folks sure do love their horror movies ("May," "Cabin Fever," "Saw," etc.) and they've just announced another one that's due to... More...
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