Sorry, this movie sucks

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

While no masterpiece of horror, May tells the story of perhaps the most relatable psycho in the modern slasher genre. Unlike Freddy Krueger or Mike Myers from Halloween, you witness May experiencing bullying as a child as a result of a lazy eye and wearing a patch, at becoming friendless, outcast and awkward. She grows up to be a weird woman who longs for friendship, intimacy and a boyfriend. Sex too. May becomes infatuated with Adam, a film school dropout and has a sexual fling. But he is turned off at her kink for red and the relationship ends. Rejected, in a tantrum she brutalizes her doll collection. (Quite honestly I know Sri Lankan girl called Savithri who's reacted more psychopathic than that!)Driven by her desire to get back with Adam, she begins to stalk him, calling him and leaving awkward and weird phone messages. (Again something many woman might relate to, am I right ladies?!) Eventually when her favourite doll is destroyed her obsession spirals out of control. She kills her cat and stuffs it in the freezer and goes on a killing spree killing a lesbian co-worker and her girlfriend. Eventually she murders Adam too. Carting their body parts in an icebox she takes them home to sew together a friend. In the end, to give it life, she cuts out one of her own eyes. Aww. Honestly, how can you not feel for poor little ol' May?

This is one of the weirdest film I have ever watched in my life, she is as crazy as Norman Bates. I only decided to watch it because Anna Faris was in it, this was mad, I really don't know what else to say about this film except that it was weird. Clearly May had some psychological issues and needed help. I really don't know what I just watched, this wasn't even scary to me, only awkward, weird and disgusting. How people think of these things to turn into a movie I don't know.

May has a disturbed and disturbing childhood, and grows up with difficulty in forming relationships. She keeps coming close, but that darned doll from her childhood keeps getting in the way.I have just given an accurate but misleading synopsis: the doll is an important element of this psychological horror, but not in the way you might suspect. Angela Bettis makes May both sympathetic and worryingly odd, and a good cast make the supporting characters interesting, varied, and credible (Anna Faris, in particular, is very good). The resolution of this rather sad tale is both shocking and entirely in accordance with what has come before.Of its sort, this is one of the better examples of the damaged individual psychological horror.

May Dove Canady (Angela Bettis) was friendless as a child. Her lazy eye forced her to wear an eye patch. Her mother gave her Suzie the doll telling her that she could make her own friends. As an adult, she gets her eye fixed and tries awkwardly to be more social with Adam Stubbs (Jeremy Sisto). She's fascinated with his hands. Her Lesbian coworker Polly (Anna Faris) is attracted to her. She feels let down by both of them. The kids at her school destroy her doll Suzie. She decides to make her own friend sewing together various parts.It's a fascinating character in a horror indie. This is better than most of the low budget horror that gets made. It all boils down to the character and the performance from Bettis. The rest of the cast are also terrific. It's not a scary horror but it is a disturbed character study.