Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Wound (2010, David Blyth)


What you get from "Wound" is some highly bleak, experimentally formulated 'arthouse' horror out of New Zealand that is pleasurably laced with some nicely taboo themes and wildly weird and macabre imagery. The film had a little bit of a "Jacob's Ladder"; potential descent into madness vibe to me... Just with more cock-chopping and vaginal blood sucking...

We start off with a seemingly proper older gentleman (who sounds EXACTLY like Malcolm McDowell) visiting his adult daughter. She clocks him over the head with a bat, ties him up and murders him as revenge for raping her as a child. She buries him in the backyard, amidst a bunch of wadded up balls of aluminum foil (never understood the significance of this detail) and resumes her normal life... A life that consists of unsuccessfully soliciting printer service over the phone and allowing a whack job to act out some kind of S&M 'kink' in which she is forced to role play as a submissive housewife in front of a webcam. Eventually, her long-lost daughter - a potentially lesbonic teenage goth - comes knocking after having gotten the necessary documents from the creepy school guidance counselor. Turns out, Mama was told by her old and haggard dominatrix mother that her incest-spawned baby had died following birth and no one is willing to believe that she's now got a new, freaky house guest hanging around claiming to be her kin...

There's some other crazy, nightmarish shit thrown and you never really fully understand how it all adds up. You're led to wonder whether or not the daughter is real, if the mom is completely insane, or if the whole movie is just a bad dream. Or all-of-the-above, perhaps. There's an image thrown in showing the daughter preparing to commit suicide on the railroad tracks with her boyfriend and there's the reoccurring sound of a train thrown in at seemingly random points throughout the film... There's also a scene involving a fat rapist with a spiked dick, tattooed legs and ass and creepy pig mask as well as a big, pulsating vagina birthing a pair of doll-faced figures... Cool shit.

I'd recommend "Wound" to anyone who is craving some deranged surrealism with their horror viewing. Something... a little DIFFERENT, if you will. Haters of less-than-linear story telling should steer clear, but if you can appreciate some 'irregularity' and calculated, nightmare-like disorientation along with depraved and bizarre imagery and nastiness than you should check this out. The performances are all really good, the cinematography is slick and the creativity element is plentiful.

http://woundmovie.com

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