Wounds (2019) (original) (raw)
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar. (less)
Director: Babak Anvari
Writer: Babak Anvari
Starring: Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke, Jim Klock
Review by Brian Orndorf, October 24, 2019
5 / 10
Arriving to add a little David Cronenberg homage to the Halloween season is �Wounds,� which is writer/director Babak Anvari�s follow-up to his 2016 Iranian horror film, �Under the Shadow.� Adapting a 68-page novella by Nathan Ballingrud (titled �The Visible Filth�), Anvari quests to turn something literary and indistinct into a 90-minute feature, leaning on an atmosphere of dread to fully freak out the audience. As nightmares go, �Wounds� is as thinly sliced as it comes, trying to get by on very little in the fright department, with the material encouraging more undefined highlights of terror. ...read more...
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