A cross between Hellraiserand The Ring, Woundsis a briskly paced supernatural freak-out with some weirdo worldbuilding involving the idea that you can commune with angels through the worship and devotion of raw, gaping wounds. From there, the movie descends into pure madness, with Hammer delivering a fantastic performance as somebody quickly losing his grip on reality. After hacking the phone, Will discovers it is full of strange videos and photos of disembodied parts of humans, hideous wounds and what appears to be full-blown supernatural shenanigans. Curiosity gets the better of Will after the phone begins receiving strange texts from somebody claiming to be in danger. One night, after a violent scuffle among a handful of the bar’s patrons, Will discovers a cell phone left on the floor by a group of underage students.
In the movie, Armie Hammer stars as Will, a New Orleans bartender who is dating a college student played by Dakota Johnson but spends his nights trying to woo one of his bar’s regulars (played by Zazie Beetz).
The object of my affection? Babak Anvari’s Wounds, a follow-up to the filmmaker’s excellent 2016 Djinn horror film Under the Shadowand an adaptation of Nathan Ballingrud’s novella The Visible Filth. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in "The Visible Filth" to the search for the map of hell in "The Butcher's Table," Ballingrud's beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.In January I sat in the Metropolitan Holiday Village 4 Cinemas at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and, over the course of 94 minutes, fell head over heels in love. Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his "piercing and merciless" ( Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives-both real and imagined: "What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition" ( Los Angeles Review of Books). "Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers." -Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne "Ballingrud's work isn't like any other." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing A gripping collection of six stories of terror-including the novella "The Visible Filth," the basis for the upcoming major motion picture-by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado-"one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there" ( The Verge).
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