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May is a very odd one. The movie is not fun or good. The premise is a very disturbed chick named May has no friends. So she wants one friend of her own. If no one is your friend, make one. An imaginary friend would have been a more suitable choice. This is as I say a very disturbing flick. However, unlike "The Devil's Reject's" this is not disturbing in a good way. Everyone is rather nice to May here and I'm not understanding as to why she needs a friend of her own creation. Perhaps because of insanity. Still, This movie is also disgusting. Not in a good way. I had a very difficult time watching this. When I see a movie, I want to be compelled to watch the movie with delight. I just could not watch a young lady rip herself apart and go insane. How depressing. The Last Word: Nausating. We got another over-hyped independent movie. I was disgusted with "May". She kills people who do no harm and kills her cat, then keeps it. If disturbing was the movie's attempt, it succeeded. However, I was not impressed. I do not want to see this movie ever again. I hate this movie.

This film is absolute dross but has a good comedic element. Synopsis in short... May, the lead character decides that her friends aren't good enough so she goes on a killing spree to create a new friend out of the best pieces of them. But May doesn't have to use effort to kill her friends. They just let her stab and mutilate them whilst they struggle to act shocked. Concentrating on this aspect of their acting mean't they couldn't do anything else at the same time (was this on purpose I wonder?). This film shows that even known actors look rubbish through poor direction and scripting (is this on purpose? I hope not). It is so bad it is watchable for the humour of it all. By the end I wanted to gouge my own eyes out and was desperate for May to do the obvious so I could switch off and go to bed. The make up and special effects must have cost the team about 5 dollars with change. The stroke of Mays cheek at the end was laugh out loud comedy with the rubber glove skin. And the eyeball! The scene with the blind kids crawling on their hands and knees in glass 'without realising' was funny too. They give blind people no credit at all! I gave this 1 for comedy and 1 because they managed to persuade Anna Faris (aka Cindy from Scary Movie) to star in it. The comedy mole was classic. The cat gave a convincing performance until it was replaced by a piece of cardboard and fur so I will top the ranking upto 3. This film mocks the cheap horrors of yesteryear but they could have tried a little harder. Cindy...

I bemoan horribly low-budget movies, but this production is proof positive that money does not make the movie. I am still so disturbed by this effort that I am finding it hard to find the words... This movie was absolute brilliance. It was creatively written, realistically portrayed, inspirationally directed, and disturbingly sad and dark at the same time. Angela Bettis is astounding as May. May was born with a lazy eye which caused her have to wear an eye patch. Her mother, a neurotically judgmental woman, raised May to believe that her only choice for friendship was to either hide her differences, or withdraw into her own fantasy. But there are more differences within May than even her mother could see, and after May realizes that people are not perfect, she goes to any and all lengths to make herself seen. This is one of the darkest, saddest, most disturbing movies I have EVER seen. Bittersweet and truly mad. It rates a full 10/10 on the "B" scale. That's an 8.9/10 from... the Fiend :.

I'm so glad people are re-discovering horror as a serious genre because the endless SCREAM rip-offs were getting more tiresome than even the previous decade's endless HALLOWEEN rip-offs. MAY not only operates as a great horror film, it also is a wonderful character study of social dysfunction. Angela Bettis is wonderfully painful to watch in her attempts at love. She's an actress to keep your eyes on in the future. The ending gets a little more standard but is just creepy enough to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Some movies use gore to distinguish themselves from other horror movies in a unique way, and boy, do they ever succeed. DEAD-ALIVE, EVIL DEAD, RE-ANIMATOR. Others, rather than settle for OTT gore, try to creep you out with old-school tactics that wriggle under your skin into places that are anything but comfortable...places that you only visit in your dreams. THE OTHERS, THE SIXTH SENSE and SIGNS are those kinds of films. And then you get those rarities...those exceptional films that are not for everyone, that manage to be both creepy and gory at the same time, in a way that's not quite easily classifiable, and so they are never considered "mainstream" by mass audiences in the multiplexes, or critics into selling sound-bites rather than writing decent reviews. Films like TOURIST TRAP, THE FUNHOUSE, George Romero's MARTIN, ALICE, SWEET ALICE, SISTERS and SILENT SCREAM are some prime examples. To this list, we can now add MAY. The less you know about this film going in, the more shocking the denoument is. And even those who have heard quite a bit about it, shouldn't be too quick to make assumptions. MAY goes in a direction that most films of this genre hint at, but never commit to. The result is a tale alternating between twisted tenderness and tremendous terror, like nothing you've seen in a long while. And in the true tradition of creepy/gory/blackly comic films, there's no middle of the road with this one. You will love it or absolutely hate it, but either way, you will not walk away from it unaffected. First-time writer/director McKee has seen to that, and then some. Angela Bettis may need some serious therapy, following up her role in the CARRIE TV remake with this one. I'd be tempted to call it a pattern, since May does share a lot of similarities with Carrie White; the overprotective, overbearing mothers, the role of societal outcast set at an early age. But that's where the similarities end. Where Carrie's weapon of choice was her soon-to-be-not-so-latent telekinetic powers, May's power lies in her very deceptive talent to appear shy, docile, reclusive and weird, but supposedly "harmless." Obviously lacking in the social interaction department, she still has a quality about her that elicits our empathy and sympathy. The characters she meets in the story feel the same way and...well, you have to see what happens to belive it. Indie faves Jeremy Sisto (SIX FEET UNDER), Anna Faris (the SCARY MOVIE series) and James Duval (A RIVER MADE TO DROWN IN) round out the principal cast. Not to mention May's first 'friend' that serves as a catalyst for the story...a doll given her by her mother, which may have you swearing off dolls for the rest of your life! I'm not going to give away the main plot, leaving that to other reviewers and their assessments. I will say this: if your horror movies usually have to be series sequels with a number plastered in front of them, MAY might be too much imaginative derangement for you to handle. But if you're in the mood for something completely different, then rent it NOW, by all means. Just make sure you have a good, stupid comedy to take your mind off of it afterward. Trust me on this; even if it's DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? for the fifteenth time, TAKE IT. You'll feel...well, maybe a little better after watching this.

When May was a child, she was a lonely girl with one lazy eye and without any friend but a weird and ugly doll kept in a glass case given by her bizarre mother on her birthday. May (Angela Bettis) becomes a lonely weird young woman, working in an animal hospital and assisting the veterinary in surgeries and sewing operated animals most of the time. Her lesbian colleague Polly (Anna Farris) has a sort of attraction for her. When the shy May meets the mechanic Adam Stubbs (Jeremy Sisto), she loves his hands and has a crush on him. They date, but the weirdness and bizarre behavior of May makes Adam moves away from her. Alone, May has a brief affair with Polly, but she feels rejected again when her colleague meets Ambrosia (Nichole Hiltz). When her doll is accidentally broken, the deranged May decides to build a friend for her, using the best parts her acquaintances can offer. I saw "May" for the first time on VHS on 23 April 2005, and I found it an original, weird and scary low-budget movie, with a great potential of cult-movie. The great direction of Lucky McKee pays homage to Dario Argento, inclusive with a direct citation of "Trauma". The soundtrack also recalls Argento's movies, and when Adam projects his movie, the credit of his direction is written in Italian. Angela Bettis is perfect in the role of a deranged young woman, and the story is never predictable. Jeremy Sisto has also a great performance, and Anna Farris breaks the tension with her silly character. Today, 21 December 2006, I have just seen May again on DVD and I recommend this movie to fans of original scary and twisted stories. My vote is eight. Title (Brazil): "May – Obsessão Assassina" ("May – Assassin Obsession")