Friday, July 02, 2010
Michael Allen
Director David Blyth (Death Warmed Up) is a New Zealand based horror director who is no stranger to controversy. His film Angel Mine challenged censorship standards and his feature Death Warmed Up incorporated themes of matricide and patricide. Now, after a six year pause, Blyth returns with another shocking film piece entitled Wound.
This latest film takes some material from Greek myth and modernizes the work for a new audience. The film tackles abuse and abandonment issues as character Susan (Kate O'Rourke) confronts some family problems in a very disturbing manner. A second photo for the film is available below, but here is a warning before you proceed; the still below is graphic, gorey and not safe for work. Have a look at all the available material on Wound, here, before these elements of Greek tragedy make an appearance on the big screen at Frightfest August 29th.
The plot summary for Wound here:
"Wound marks the bold comeback of the "enfant terrible" of New Zealand cinema. In 1978 David Blyth’s punkish sex-in-the-suburbs debut Angel Mine caused outrage and censorship debates. He later cemented his reputation with a bona fide antipodean horror classic Death Warmed Up. New Zealand has a weak history of transgressive cinema; Wound is the angry by-product of being bored by the utterly predictable banality of our mainstream movies.
After years of working in the documentary landscape, Blyth’s lo-fi comeback is a shocking supernatural tale of mental illness, bondage, incest, revenge and explicit graphic violence. A reinterpretation of the Demeter-Persephone myth, or mother tries to rescue her child from Hades, the film features a vengeful daughter searching for the mother who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father. A ferocious, brave performance from Kate O’Rourke centres the film as all around spirals into dementia and viscera" (Fright).
Release Date: August 29th (Limited Run, European Premiere).
Director/writer: David Blyth.
Producers: Andrew Beattie, David Blyth.
Cast: Kate O'Rourke, Te Kaea Beri, Campbell Cooley, Sandy Lowe and Ian Mune.
More info' on the film at the Wound website:
Wound Homepage
Wound on Facebook:
Wound on FB
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This latest film takes some material from Greek myth and modernizes the work for a new audience. The film tackles abuse and abandonment issues as character Susan (Kate O'Rourke) confronts some family problems in a very disturbing manner. A second photo for the film is available below, but here is a warning before you proceed; the still below is graphic, gorey and not safe for work. Have a look at all the available material on Wound, here, before these elements of Greek tragedy make an appearance on the big screen at Frightfest August 29th.
The plot summary for Wound here:
"Wound marks the bold comeback of the "enfant terrible" of New Zealand cinema. In 1978 David Blyth’s punkish sex-in-the-suburbs debut Angel Mine caused outrage and censorship debates. He later cemented his reputation with a bona fide antipodean horror classic Death Warmed Up. New Zealand has a weak history of transgressive cinema; Wound is the angry by-product of being bored by the utterly predictable banality of our mainstream movies.
After years of working in the documentary landscape, Blyth’s lo-fi comeback is a shocking supernatural tale of mental illness, bondage, incest, revenge and explicit graphic violence. A reinterpretation of the Demeter-Persephone myth, or mother tries to rescue her child from Hades, the film features a vengeful daughter searching for the mother who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father. A ferocious, brave performance from Kate O’Rourke centres the film as all around spirals into dementia and viscera" (Fright).
Release Date: August 29th (Limited Run, European Premiere).
Director/writer: David Blyth.
Producers: Andrew Beattie, David Blyth.
Cast: Kate O'Rourke, Te Kaea Beri, Campbell Cooley, Sandy Lowe and Ian Mune.
More info' on the film at the Wound website:
Wound Homepage
Wound on Facebook:
Wound on FB
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