American Mary is the latest film from the twisted twins Jen and Sylvia Soska. The movie stars Katharine Isabelle (Mary Mason) as an inspiring medical student who has racked up a substantial amount of debt during her studies. Mary turns to a seedy nightclub and answers a job posting for a "masseuse". While going over her resume, the owner of the club (Antonio Cupo) decides that her talents would be useful elsewhere such as patching up a tortured soul in the basement. The moment Mary decides to take $5,000 is the pivotal moment of the film where she enters over to the dark side and can never go back.
It isn't long before the strippers at the club get wind of Mary's talents with a scalpel and track her down. This is the moment we meet the stripper Beatress (Tristan Risk) who is part of the body-mod community. Beatress has modded her entire body and face into an horrifying resemblance of Betty Boop. She informs Mary that her friend Ruby Realgirl (Paula Lindberg) wants to have her nipples removed and her genitalia almost completely covered. Yes, you may have guessed that Ruby wants to look just like Barbie! However, she hasn't let her husband in on her little decision to go to this new extreme which comes back to bite Mary in the ass later on in the film.
Ruby explains to Mary that the reasoning for doing this is that a doll can be nude and not feel sexualized, shy or degraded. And of course, she wants that same feeling and it appears that she wants to literally piss off her shitty husband as well. Mary takes the $12,000 for completing the surgery and comes home to throw up. Mary has been able to pay on some of her past due bills now, and it seems to be the end of her career as a body-mod surgeon. However, Mary is excited when her professors invite her to a private party to mingle with other surgeons. But Mary's professor (David Lovgren) thinks she has been prostituting, because she has come into so much money all of a sudden. He and other surgeons invite young girls to the party in order to drug and rape them. If that wasn't bad enough, they film it all for their private collections. The rape sends Mary over the edge and pushes her even farther into the dark side with torture and murder.
Mary now seeks help from the club boss in kidnapping her professor in order to torture him for what he has done. She decides to quit med school and start doing body modifications. And the professor is going to be the guinea pig for her to practice all the procedures on from genital modifications to voluntary amputations. Yeah, he messed with the wrong chick this time, and he gets up-close and personal with the new "Bloody Mary."
All-in-all,
American Mary is a grotesque horror film that focuses on many societal issues present today. The film shines most in its great performances and beautiful execution which makes this one movie that will keep your attention until the very end.
Score: 8 out of 10
Movie Information Production: American Mary Productions, Evolution Pictures
Cast: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren, Paula Lindberg, Clay St. Thomas, John Emmet Tracy, Twan Holliday, Nelson Wong, Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska
Directors/screenwriters: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Producers: Evan Tylor, John Curtis
Executive producers: Kathryn Griffiths, Tom Raycove, Angela Towle, Riaz Tyab
Editor: Bruce MacKinnon
Rated: R
Runtime: 103 min.
Ruby explains to Mary that the reasoning for doing this is that a doll can be nude and not feel sexualized, shy or degraded. And of course, she wants that same feeling and it appears that she wants to literally piss off her shitty husband as well. Mary takes the $12,000 for completing the surgery and comes home to throw up. Mary has been able to pay on some of her past due bills now, and it seems to be the end of her career as a body-mod surgeon. However, Mary is excited when her professors invite her to a private party to mingle with other surgeons. But Mary's professor (David Lovgren) thinks she has been prostituting, because she has come into so much money all of a sudden. He and other surgeons invite young girls to the party in order to drug and rape them. If that wasn't bad enough, they film it all for their private collections. The rape sends Mary over the edge and pushes her even farther into the dark side with torture and murder. 
