Rush week at Veterinary School should be a bastion of humane deportment, not a time when the forecast calls for it to rain horse blood or students to dine on raw rabbit kidney chased by a shot of hooch. Garance Marillier stars as the vegan vet student who during the course of the hazing decides it’s time to trade in the garden for a slaughterhouse and get back on the cow. Before long she’s dining on the arm. Reports that Toronto film festival attendees couldn’t keep their popcorn down or that ambulances were called to the scene because a couple of audience members fainted should only help to put butts in seats. The sly splashes of nuance and character shading that go into Marillier’s superbly functional performance can’t help but be pushed to the background in favor of mounting gore effects. Still, I was never bored by director Julia Ducournau’s stylish debut. (2016) — Scott Marks
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