Best Actress:
AnnaLynn McCord: Excision
Gretchen Lodge: Lovely Molly
Emily Olson: Silent House
Kristen Connolly: Cabin in the Woods
Robin McLeavy: The Loved Ones
…and the Igor goes to:
AnnaLynn McCord as Pauline in Excision.
Though every contender on this list deserves this award for how dark a place they forced themselves to go, we need to give that extra bit of props to the stunning McCord for her unflinching turn as Pauline in Excision.
While known ONLY for the 90210 remake prior to this film, she truly lost herself in the creation of Pauline, fully embracing her twisted psyche, and the resulting character we see from that is both cocky AND vulnerable. Broken AND cocksure. It is a polarity most would not be able to pull off, but McCord utterly convinces you that Pauline exists when you sit down to watch this film. And that ending? Jesus, we did not see the genuine emotion of that ending coming, so huge props to AnnaLynn for being willing to uglify herself and her soul for such a demanding part.
