Tired of being alone, she continuously seeks love and friendship. So one day she spots Adam, specifically his hands to which she has an unnatural attraction. They have a date or two until he discovers just how weird she really is. She stalks him for a while until she overhears Adam telling a friend about how he successfully dumped "that nutcase".
Distraught over Adam, May takes an interest in Polly, a coworker of May's at the veterinarian hospital where she works. Polly has been hinting that she likes May for some time now and May starts to take an interest in her, specifically her neck. Polly seems sincere about having a relationship with May... that is until Ambrosia (Betty Grable on steroids) comes along and soon Polly's interest in May simmers down. Every time something goes sour in May's life, we hear the cracking of Suzie's glass case in the background, symbolically representing the cracking of May's sanity.
Hurt by someone for the second time now, May desperately craves love, so she volunteers at a daycare for blind kids. This works out fine until May brings Suzie to the daycare for show and tell. An accident happens and the glass case gets broken and every child in the place gets shredded with broken glass (remember, they're blind kids, they see and discover their environment through touching), thus disastrously ending her new hobby as a caregiver.
After some time, May is seen sitting on a city bench when some punk named Zero drops in. As opposed to his punk appearance, he's actually an overly polite nice guy. May is again searching for that one person that won't screw her over and will be her friend. Unfortunately, May had killed her cat a few days prior and stuffed it in the freezer, so when Zero goes looking for ice cubes, he gets a surprise. He calls May a freak and says that he'd never be her friend. This is the last straw and May finally snaps. She kills Zero by stabbing him in the head with scissors (something I've wanted to do to several Christian politicians).
May finally catches on to the phrase "If you can't find a friend... make one." She decides that she needs more parts, so on Halloween, she dresses up like Suzie and armed with scalpels and a beer cooler, she sets out to collect all the parts she needs to make her "perfect new friend". She goes on a killing spree, collecting Adam's hands, Polly's neck, and Ambrosia's legs. Nobody notices anything peculiar about her behavior because it's Halloween.
Once home, May sets to work "making" her new friend (May has a knack for sewing). With all the right parts being sewn together, May now has the perfect friend. One thing is wrong though. May's new friend has a fabric head (I guess May never liked anyone's head enough to use it) and therefore this new friend cannot see May. She tries putting her glasses on it to no avail. It appears that one last sacrifice is needed to bring life to May's perfect friend. She gouges out her good eye and puts it on the "quilted cadaver". Then... the arm moves slowly up to May's crying face and strokes her hair, comforting her.
Creepy as hell to say the least. I suppose the installment of life into this new "friend" is symbolic of May going off the deep end and no longer being sane, not that she was all there, to begin with. This is probably one of the newest films to be awarded cult status. Released in 2002, it was slow to catch on but it has gained a huge cult following in a pretty short amount of time. It's very well done, has very good acting, especially on the part of Angela Bettis who plays May, and has become one of my all-time favorite films. Maybe because loneliness is a powerful emotion that I think most people have suffered from at some time in their life and can surely relate to. But as we learn from May, if you can't find a friend, make one.
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