Wounds-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: Will's life spirals out of control when he finds a phone left in his bar.

Just in case you thought a wound was an opening to whatever gooey, gristly thing is inside you, well, here comes a movie to make you freak out about every cut you may get.

Wounds has plenty of drama and every sentence is punctuated with profanity. It’s actually a story about a guy, Will, who owns a bar. Basically, he takes everything for granted and doesn’t care much about his surroundings.

He’s the kind of guy who gets everything and wants to sustain this mediocrity. Except, like every human being, he wants more. But that is buried so deep inside him that it takes a weird incident to jolt those hidden desires.

In the first scene, we see evidence of this. 

WOUNDS Movie Plot 

Will is at the bar, attending to his friend Alicia and her new boyfriend Jeffrey. He has a job at the bar, a girlfriend, and good friends. He should be content right?

Except we see him unsuccessfully trying to hide his disdain for Jeffrey all because he has feelings for Alicia.

There are also cockroaches roaming the bar and Will doesn’t seem much bothered by it until Jeffrey makes a remark. Then he shuts him up.

When a group of teenagers show up at the bar, Will hands them a beer knowing they are underage. He just doesn’t seem to care about anything.

A regular at the bar, Eric shows up and makes offensive remarks to another woman.

Still, Will doesn’t make a move. It’s just Eric being Eric to him.

It is when Eric gets into a fight with his friends and subsequently gets cut on the face by a bottle, that Will’s complacent cage gets rattled.

The college kids take a video of the fight while Will calls the police.

The fight breaks up before the authorities show up, the college kids leave, and Will is left with a smartphone belonging to the teens.

He returns home to his girlfriend who we can see maintains an arms-length with him.

Bored, he sits at the kitchen table, phone in hand and manages to unlock it. When he finds messages from a guy asking for help, Will thinks he’s just messing with him.

The next day, Eric doesn’t show up. Will visits him to see a gaping hole on his cheek but Eric refuses to go to the emergency room.

Will’s life seems changed afterwards. Alicia ditches him to be with her boyfriend, his girlfriend Carrie suspects him of cheating on her because he seems cagey about the phone, and the cockroaches keep following Will even to his home.

When Carrie unlocks the phone, she sees disturbing videos of a skull with a hand coming out of it. Convinced that someone was murdered, she asks Will to take it to the police, but he seems hesitant.

He doesn’t want to be involved and ruin the stagnancy of his life.

Nevertheless, he goes, not wanting to anger Carrie either. On the way, he is almost run over by one of the college girls who were at the bar and retrieves her phone.

Will goes to the police but he has no helpful information to give them.

When he returns, he gets aggravated. Carrie seems more interested in her professor. Alicia gets drunk and makes out with him but then pushes him away. When Jeffrey turns up at the bar, knowing what Will did, he gets into a fight. Alicia doesn’t want to see Will again.

Carrie researches the video and finds a never-ending video of a tunnel that she gets mesmerized by.

Will finds her and dunks her in the bath when she goes into a comatose state. The bathwater turns dark and clouds, showing that something had taken over Carrie and was washed away in the water, kind of like being baptized.

Will’s life keeps spiralling down. He breaks up with Carrie who seems nonplussed but then accuses him of being empty.

WOUNDS Ending Explained with Spoilers! 

Will is thrown out of the apartment but not before he finds satisfaction in Carrie sobbing at the breakup.

At the bar, he gets into an argument with the owner who fires him.

Now jobless and homeless, he visits Eric and tells him he’s staying with him.

Eric refuses, still in bed and suffering. His house is overrun with cockroaches.

He says that the college kids came back and left a gift for him. Which is a phone.

He sees a message from someone who tells him that his present is wrapped in flesh.

Will peers into Eric’s cut and sees the hole has widened. He sees something peculiar and realizes he must become whole again as Carrie had called him empty. He bends over Eric while the house fills with cockroaches.

Apparently, cockroaches in the house mean a portal to evil has opened.

Was Will brainwashed into feeding on Eric or did he lose his mind after the reality hit him?

Will turned out to be completely unstable after just a minor incident.

He was unhappy and was seeking something more. Perhaps that is why the evil in the tunnel chose him to even though it was the college kids who had opened the portal with a ritual.

The movie had an interesting pace and storyline but lacked a bit on clarity.

The true horror didn’t rely on jump scares or gross beings entering through the tunnel, but rather the mind of a man who was not happy with what he had.

Scare scale: 3/5