Wound

Interview

• Wound in Top 13 Movie Pick - Screen Jabber

Wound Reviews

"Nothing is as it seems as mental disintegration reins supreme"

"sure to become a cult classic" - Cine Du Monde on Facebook

"It's not often a trailer drops and makes us speechless." - Dread Central

"A welcomed return to David Blyth to the genre and I can’t wait to see what he has in store for us next." - Horror-Movies.ca

A two-headed doll! Iron-phallused Pig-man stealth! Birthing your own twin! The nightclub of dream-wandering! If your family of origin doesn't kill you, you may just make it. You will love Kate O'Rourke as she encounters her delirious, incestuous monsters of the id in this romantically charged Gothic psycho-sexual horror tale by my fellow enfant terrible David Blyth. Gorgeous images and repulsive dream-surgery into the recesses of female consciousness. Enter at your own peril! A masterpiece!
- Ken Russell

"fresh, grotesque, polarising and smart"
- www.flicks.co.nz

"Clocking in at a lean, mean and bloody 75 minutes there is hardly a moment for rest as images of suffering, bondage and violence follow one after the other, repeatedly testing the fortitude of the viewer"
- Twitchfilm Review

"Rarely before have I had my senses so rubbed raw"
- Hell Street Journal

This film is shocking, controversial, sick, depressing, and cruel.
- www.horrorphilia.net review

NZ On Screen Pushing Boundaries

NZ ON Screen has provided this overview of his films saying that Director David Blyth has created some of New Zealand’s most graphic and challenging movies dealing with horror, sexuality, and the sub-conscious mind. In Pushing Boundaries they detail some of David's innovative achievements and trials, and how making WOUND reinvigorated his passion for film making.

"Director David Blyth has created some of New Zealand's most graphic and challenging movies dealing with horror, sexuality, and the sub-conscious mind. He talks about his career and influences in this ScreenTalk interview." Watch David's Screentalk interview with NZ On Screen.

Releases

Major Northern Hemisphere Film Festivals have selected WOUND for their 2010 Line Up.

NZ International Film Festival

'David Blyth, director of Kiwi cult flicks Angel Mine and Death Warmed Up returns with Wound, which Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson describes as "a shockingly supernatural tale of mental illness, bondage, incest, revenge and explicit graphic violence".' - NZ Herald

Wound NEWS and LINKS

www.woundmovie.com

International Festivals

• Fantasia
• Films'n'Movies
• Joblo Movie Network
• French article
• Quiet Earth
• Twitch REVIEW

NZ release

• WOUND has been selected for the NZ International Film Festival
• Sunday News
• BfM Radio interview with David Blyth
• Peter Jackson critical of NZ Film Commission
• Dimonakov Blog
• Hays Hudson House of Horror
• Short preview of Wound at the end of this TV3 clip about another unrelated festival entry, The Room
• Gothic Parallels

Wound - Gothic Parallels

Here are some of the characteristics of gothic fiction that parallel Wound elements: Madness, (especially feminine madness) family curses, a female in distress, a controlling, dominant male who compels the aforementioned disempowered female to do something against her will, an isolated manor house, an emphasis on a gloomy or foreboding atmosphere, ghosts or other supernatural creatures, doubles, secrets, graveyards or crypts, omens or visions, dreams or nightmares that are the wild current below the civilized, rational, or tamed, mind; characters who exhibit aberrant psychologies, or physiologies rituals, caves, caverns or hidden subterranean spaces, decay and death, mystery and the nocturnal and references to the medieval.

Knot Nine

Knot Nine sung by Rosie Riggir, end credits song from New Zealand Horror Film, WOUND, edited by Eddie Larsen, directed by David Blyth

Call to Ban WOUND

A Kiwi horror film that shows an unconscious girl being raped by a man wearing a pig's head should be banned, say family values campaigners...

• Ban avoided
• Call to BAN Wound - TV 3 News
• NZ Herald article

Wound - December 2009.

Shooting 9th - 31st January 2010

Wound is a new feature film, written and directed by David Blyth, New Zealand's controversial cult / horror auteur. (Angel Mine, Death Warmed Up, and recent festival hit documentaries Bound for Pleasure and Transfigured Nights).

A Supernatural Horror Film, set against a backdrop of Internet web cameras, explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. Wound is reinterpretation of the Demeter-Proserpine mythological story (mother having to save her child from the clutches of Hades).

We follow the ghostly Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met -- a mother (Susan) who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father. After committing suicide, Tanya returns to confront and possess Susan with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution.