Film Review – Wounds

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. Moving at a slower pace with an unremarkable cast, Anvari doesn’t create many highlights with the movie, which only tends to connect when acting reverential to the “The Fly” and “Videodrome” helmer, trying body horror on for size. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com