David Blyth interview - a candid interview with very interesting revelations about WOUND.
Wound released in Toronto Canada for a one week engagement at Projection Booth East. Wound was extensively reviewed including this one from a National paper.
This little gem of a review appeared in Toronto's Metro News giving it a 4/5 and calling Wound "something of a skid row masterpiece, a feral, bloody and unforgettable portrait of a woman...gritty, emotional and deeply upsetting, Wound is a serious example of the genre."
- Metronews Toronto
Wound Awards - WOUND has been awarded top honours in "A Night of Horror International Film Festival", Sydney Australia, 2011. Best Female Performance: Kate O'Rourke (WOUND) Best Director: David Blyth (WOUND) Best Film: WOUND
WOUND has been selected for the Horror Zone section in FANCINE, XX Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga. ( Spain )
New video of Knot Nine, sung by Rosie Riggir, end credits song from New Zealand Horror Film, WOUND, edited by Eddie Larsen, directed by David Blyth
WOUND is a feature film, written and directed by David Blyth, New Zealand's controversial cult / horror film maker. www.davidblyth.com
Filming was completed on 31st January 2010.
WOUND is a Supernatural Horror Film that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death.
We follow 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 who remains stuck in her present life.
Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess Susan with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution.
WOUND explores and confronts the dark, distorted supernatural world that lurks within us all.
A young woman, alone, attempts to fight the demons that begin to haunt her days and nights -- in a series of brutal confrontations with the enemies of the past who want to possess and kill her.
But, they are all members of her own family ... of her own self.
A dark, disturbing look into a haunted woman's mind.
This is one terrible dream you will never wake up from.
Wound is now available online for download (except for in UK, USA and Germany where the DVD is being distributed: see below). Downloads are not expensive and all funds are received by the film maker. Enjoy this extraorinarily nasty art-house horror film immediately! And support more great NZ horror!
Razor Reel festival and the Lausanne Underground Film Festivals
November 2O1O Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival -
WOUND has been accepted into the 'Lausanne Underground Film Festival' in Switzerland,
and has been selected to be part of their International Feature Film Competition.
October 20 - 24. WOUND has also been accepted for the 'Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival' in
Brugge, Belgium.
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;Â rituals, caves, caverns or hidden subterranean spaces, decay and death, mystery and the nocturnal and references
to the medieval.
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
"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
This film is shocking, controversial, sick, depressing, and cruel. - http://www.horrorphilia.net review
The Producers acknowledge the sources of the following:
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices that,
If I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that,
when I waked, I cried to dream again
- William Shakespeare - Caliban, The Tempest
"I love you, I love you knot. With each tie I make you mine
By the second, we're bound in pleasure
With the third, I join my life, my treasure
Through the fourth, all wounds burned closed
In the fifth, all pain disposed
With each string my heart creates
Death itself cannot forsake The One who fate has knit for me...
And as I seal the ties that bind, I stitch my love to knot
Nine with a kiss for my sweet Angel Mine."
`Stitch of Nine' by E. Takcas
"Her daughter
you caught a glimpse of her daughter
when she opened the door
half opened the door
and you knew
then and there
that her story
would continue
through her daughter."
Poem written and performed by Richard von Sturmer
David Blyth, the director, writer and producer of WOUND responds to questions and reveals some of the
the hidden secrets of the film. The analysis of the psychologial dimensions and real life horror in this interview
reveals a facinating study of a directors vision, how far is the need to peer into the darkness?
Interview with David Blyth.
                                                           Cast
Susan
Kate O'Rourke
Tanya
Te Kaea Beri
Master John
Campbell Cooley
Mistress Ruth
Sandy Lowe
Neil
Brendan Gregory
Dr Nelson
Ian Mune
Dr Alice Weaver
Maggie Tarver
Rosie
Chrystal Ash
Mark
Matt Easterbrook
Crisis Team #1
Omar Al Sobky
Crisis Team #2
Andy Sophocleous
Featuring
Tami Smith
Heath Mortlock
Christina Cortezi
Karl Otto
Rick Symon
Derek Ward
Richard von Sturmer
Extra Talent
Tracy Marshall
Ben Cooney
Skye Clark
Jennifer Wood
Andrew Beattie
Tom West
Angela Gray
Symon Hutchings
Celeste Strewe
Production
Skye Clark
Jennifer Wood
Debbie Pope
Assistant Directors
Ben Cooney
Angela Gray
Andrew Lee
Director of Photography
Marc Mateo
Camera Operators
Marc Mateo
Johnny Renata
Sean Loftin
Focus Puller
Brice Swainson
Steadicam Operator
Stefan Rochfort
Camera Assistants
Sean Loftin
Tom West
Dimi Nakov
                                                       Assistants
Chrystal Ash
David Radford
Gareth Dick
Courtney Sanft
Dave Thornton
Lance Gooch
Editors
Samantha Sperlich
Eddie Larsen
Sound editor
Eddie Larsen
Edited on Final Cut Pro
Data Wrangler
Gideon Smit
Stills Photographer
Adam Baines
Security cam operator
Peter Whimp
Declan Evan-Edwards
Sound Recordist
Ande Schurr
Additional Sound Recordist
Ben Vanderoei
Boom Operator
Chanel Simpson
Stunt co-ordinator
Allan Smith
Costume Designer
Linda Davidson
Costume
Kim Smith
Make up designer
Vanessa Hurley
Make Up assistants
Skye Clark
Celeste Strewe
Karina Gulieva
Production and Prosthetic make-up effects designed by
Heath Mortlock
Karl Otto
Art & Prosthetics crew
Celeste Strewe
Genelle Eaglen
Buddy Pene
Scenic artist
Paul Radford
Special Props by
Alejandro Guarin Davila
Fire/Smoke Spfx
Kevin Chisnall
Perrin Robinson
Composer
Jed Town
Arranged and performed by
Jed Town
Harp and voice
Robyn Sutherland
Title Graphics
Halena Chapman
Color Grade
Graham Elliott
Post Production Facilities
PICTURE TALK
Sound Mix
Ollvier Ballester
'Le Gaze'
ROF Production
Kare Kare Recording Studios
Nigel Horrocks
End credits song
Written by
E Takacs
Performed by
Arranged by
Rosie Rigger
David Hine
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Jack Blyth, Jason Bainbridge
Johannes Konigstorfer, Michael Morrissey
Harry Wong, Halena Chapman
Bambi Page, Reston Griffiths
Ant Timpson, Andy Roelants
Topic Rentals, Nicholas Alexander
Dr Ian Conrich, Frances Lynn
HELL'S PIZZA