Wounds

The actual scares and suspense within this horror-thriller are far from frightening.

A film with two halves that often seem at odds with each other.

The movie more than fulfills its promise to unsettle and to incite shivers - and it doesn't quit.

It's a shame the audience has to wait the entire runtime to see what, in a better film, would have been an inciting event rather than a last-minute stinger.

all this serves to expose as much as conceal the real Will - underachieving dropout, disaffected womaniser, dipsomaniac in denial - as he is brought into painful confrontation with his own inner emptiness, parasitism and rot.

A midnight movie through and through...

I really ought to be giving this one star, but the insanity of what’s on screen is so strangely fascinating that I somewhat recommend it in an ironic way.

It's not precisely terrible -- these are all talented people involved. It's just one or two degrees off from working, but those one or two degrees, with a project this high-wire, defeats it.

It builds to this really absurd ending, which is really fascinating, but I don't think it pays off the way it thinks it does.

Horror films usually put all the cards out to play in the set-up... but mostly it feels like the film never moves out of its set-up stage.