YMMV / May

• Alternate Character Interpretation: May has several intimate moments with Polly that she seems to enjoy. Is she bisexual or is she just that desperate for human interaction that she goes along with it? Does she kill Ambrosia too because of jealousy or simply because of how mean she was?
• Cult Classic: It got a limited release and didn't even make its low budget back, but it's become a cult favorite over the years. It was even voted #17 on Bloody Disgusting's "Top 20 Horror Films of the Decade".
• Diagnosed by the Audience: May is somehow autistic, schizophrenic or mentally impaired because of her severe lack of social skills, fetish for blood, unusual behaviour and the fact that she considers her doll Suzie as her only true friend.
• Fair for Its Day: Despite the questionable characterization of Polly (see below), she is the only character who is 100% decent to May - and is Innocently Insensitive at worst.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Angela Bettis playing a shy, socially awkward girl with no friends who ends up murdering a bunch of people? This was made before she was cast in Carrie (2002), but the latter came out first.
  • Someone with mental illness just wants to make friends and becomes a murderer after society treating them too bad? Are we talking about May or Joker (2019)?
• It Was His Sled: As the movie is lumped in the horror genre (Genre-Busting on the main page shows it's much vaguer in tone than that), it's known that May is going to go off the deep end somehow.
• Moral Event Horizon: May crosses this when she kills Lupe, although it's not certain if she actually intended to kill her or if it was an accident.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • We get a scene where May is helping the doctor with surgery, and it's very Squicky.
  • To say nothing of May gouging out her own eye to make it part of the Amy doll.
• One-Scene Wonder: Petey, the Little Miss Snarker blind girl May tries to befriend. She has two speaking scenes but is among the more memorable characters.
• Retroactive Recognition: A pre-fame Rian Johnson was on hand as one of the editors.
• Values Dissonance: The character of Polly hasn't aged well. A Lipstick Lesbian who makes advances on May and openly flirts with her, and then gets portrayed as flighty and promiscuous. Not to mention they do have a rather gratuitous girl on girl sequence. Then Bury Your Gays comes into play, and her lesbian lover is shown as a straight-up Asshole Victim. And if May's Ambiguously Bi moments show her true orientation, that means she qualifies as a Depraved Bisexual.
• The Woobie: May. Yes she's a very, very odd girl, but it's clear her weirdness is caused by whatever condition she has and her troubled upbringing, but it's shown that all she really want is to have friends. The Trauma Conga Line didn't make things better for her, finally driving her into killing six people and a cat, all into literally making a friend ala Frankenstein.