The real horror is the terrible pacing and lack of focus in this movie.
It's not as bad as everyone claims but nothing special.. Has some grotesque stuff and a story which gives you more questions then answers.
I was so bored I could die. This is easily one of the worst horror movies I’ve ever seen. Dakota Johnson gives her usual monotone level of bullshit, but I’d argue it’s mostly a trash fire script. Basically just don’t even bother. I’m so mad at myself for sitting through this.
If it wasn't for the cast, I would have went to the top of the bell tower and yelled out .. "DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE!" ..
The cast, the visuals and the 90 min runtime kept me engaged ..
.. that doesn't mean i was left satisfied.
imo, this is the perfect horrible movie, for a group movie night.
I didn't understand the intention of the movie. It's very slow and there's no climax in any moment. However, i think that maybe it could work well as a thriller (if they had developed the plot in depth), but not horror, as Netflix categorized it.
I understand the tension that they wanted to create, but it's not enough, because there's no single problem solved, any of them.
5/10 only for Armie Hammer's work. Nothing else.
Goes off the rails towards the end, but until then, this is a creepy and disturbing tale that almost delivers.
This was a decent little Horror movie based on a short story called "The Visible Filth" by Nathan Ballingrud. I'd read the story previously in a collection of short stories by Ballingrud named "Wounds", which actually makes the title of this film kind of confusing.
The movie sticks pretty close to the book and the story itself was good. The characters are mostly unlikable and I didn't think the acting was bad. The movie is not much to look at but I assume this was a low budget affair. The ending was faithful to the story in the book. It's not exactly the easiest conclusion to interpret but I did like the way the director chose to incorporate the cockroaches into the final eerie and grotesque shot.
Is there some hidden meaning there that I'm not seeing? Because if everything sums to be about "how the wounds were portals to the unknown and once you know that you get obsessed", it is a pretty bad plot and conclusion.
i genuinely don’t know what the fuck this is about
I did not understand the story at all. I waited for explanations until the end, but they never arrived. Very disapointed.
This is what happens when filmmakers are more fascinated by imagery and concept but don't know how to couch them in a story.
Armie Hammer is Will, a bartender in a New Orleans bar who witnesses a fight break out one night while some college kids are in the bar (seemingly unrelated). The kids leave behind one of their phones, which contains disturbing images. All the while, his girlfriend Carrie, played by Dakota Johnson, seems to be studying occult Gnosticism, which seems to be related to what the college kids are involved in.
If you're looking for any kind of payoff in this film, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Literally, this film has no payoff. It’s more just a bunch of stuff that happens and then, BAM!, end credits. There are times that it seems like it’s going somewhere. In fact, it felt like there should have been much more interrelated stuff between different parts of the movie, such as Claire’s professor, Steve, being more developed. In fact, I definitely get the impression that this was supposed to be the case, but that it either ended up on the cutting room floor or remained concept-only. It’s possible that this happens in “The Visible Filth,” the short novel on which this movie is based, but since I haven’t read it I can’t comment on it.
The film we get is not a good film, either. The acting alternates between melodramatic and completely emotionless with no inbetween. Seriously, Brad William Henke is so over-the-top, he makes Jeremy Irons look like he was on Xanax during the “Dungeons & Dragons” movie. Dakota Johnson just sleepwalks through her entire role. Armie Hammer feels like he tries a little too hard to be the everyman. The only actor that seemed believable with genuine subtlety in their role is Zazie Beetz, but her character is pretty much superfluous to the proceedings. Her character could have been cut with little to no change to the plot.
What’s so terrible about this film, though, is the sheer frustration factor. It’s a great idea. I would have loved to see more and have the movie cleaned up to be more cohesive and have an actual payoff. But we’re denied all of this. I love the concept of basing a film around occult Gnosticism. However, it’s set in such a poor movie that by the end, I found myself wringing my hands less out of fear or feelings of bugs crawling on you (which you might get) and more out of frustration for failure to realize its potential and seeing very easily how it could have been saved. When you’re doing the filmmakers work for them, they’ve got a problem.
A surprisingly great cast and Dakota Johnson make this psychological horror film interesting when it comes to the mood it generates but the lack of focus in the story makes Wounds shallow, irritating and not sharp enough to scratch the surface.
What a waste of time!
So bad
Wounds is a very slow film about spirits trying to invade the human world through our wounds with use of technology but it mostly focused on drama rather than the horror. In ways, it reminded me a lot of the Japanese film, Kairo (2001) which got remade to Pulse (2006). The effects for the bugs are pretty cool though, and there was a glimpse of Bulletstorm (2011 video game). It was neat to see Zazie Beetz in this after just seeing her appear in Joker and a recent episode of The Twilight Zone. Dakota Johnson I also saw in the new Suspiria and the 50 Shades films. I would definitely recommend Kairo more.
Wounds - :heart:x4
All I can say is - that this is an uninteresting movie that goes nowhere - and does it in a spectacular dull way.
Skip it.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
I thought it was all right. Although I wish they would have fleshed out some of the story better.
this wasnt horror, this was shit nothing happend like wtf who wrote this film i dont recomend it to anyone and the end was stuppid a portal or a tunel whatever was it showed out of this dude called eric and cockroaches covered the screen and the movie ends:expressionless: terrible just terrible
Rated a Connor 0, normal 6
Was it good? No. Did it have some interesting elements? Yes. Enough so that I'd be interested to track down and watch this director's other work.
Disappointing because so many times it seemed about to go somewhere, dig into something, but then just kept skating along the surface. One of those films that someone could do an analysis of, say almost anything and be at least a little right.
Wow, Armie Hammer really thought he was going to be famous.
im genuinely mad that I just wasted 1h30m of my life on this. i should've read the reviews beforehand ☹
Dakota giving the performance of her life, she nearly acted her way out that paperbag.
If you don't want to waste 1,5 hours of your life, please avoid to watch this nightmare... :grimacing:
this was a good movie but only because i knew what it was based on. i haven't read the original novella but the writer is apparently known for writing grotesque imagery sometimes without any clear point or motivation. watching this movie with that knowledge made it much more enjoyable. it's very much an unremarkable story about an empty kind of person living an empty life, with creepy imagery laid on top. it reminds me a little bit of the style of writing you can find on the nosleep reddit; it's gross, unsettling and uncanny, but it also doesn't really make sense. i wouldn't watch it if having a clear answer at the end of a film is important to you; it ends basically where anyone with an interest in horror wants it to begin, myself included. but it's a fun ride if you set that unfinished feeling aside.
short takeaway: the trailer is scarier than the movie, the acting is good, and bugs continue to be absolutely the worst. oh and don't look through a stranger's phone.
I really wanted to like this movie, especially since Under the Shadow is one of my favorite movies.
The only reason I gave it a 4 was purely for Armie Hammer. Had he not been in it, I'd of rated in much lower.. He was undoubtedly the best thing about this. I don't particularly like films of this genre or the music that comes with it but this had to be the least scary thing I've ever watched. Far too many unanswered plot holes that are made out to be pertinent to the story, for them to in the end, have no impact on it and the questions as to why they were bought into the story in the first place are left unanswered with no clues on there relation to what little storyline there is. Some characters could have been completely cut from the story and it would've made no difference whatsoever. They're either not seen again or have little to no relevance. There is no closure to the film, it just finishes. We were sat in the theatre waiting for another scene for the credits to start rolling. The only expression that could describe mine and my friends face was W.T.F was that??? We went to see it for Dakota Johnson and are both of the same opinion. Shes barely in it and when she is, I'm not sure I'd call it acting, very wooden and plain in my opinion and I personally have watched all of her work. This is not one of her best by quite a long shot. Save your time and watch something else
Unless you are a fan of Dakota Johnson, avoid this & save 90mins of your time!
Lack of focus & too many of it's threads are not accounted for, ambiguous relationship between characters etc
honestly one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched :no_mouth::no_mouth::no_mouth::no_mouth:
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Just 1 hour and 30 minutes of waiting for something to happen, and when something finally happens, the movie ends.