10 Awful 2019 Horror Movies To Avoid This Halloween

4. Wounds

On paper, Wounds had quite a lot going for it, serving as writer-director Babak Anvari's follow-up to his brilliant 2016 horror Under the Shadow, starring Armie Hammer as a misogynist bartender who begins to be haunted by grotesque imagery after picking up a lost phone at his bar.

The film was met with heavily polarised responses after screening at both Sundance and Cannes, and now that the film is available worldwide on Netflix (or Hulu in the U.S.), it's clear to see why.

Despite offering up an initially promising allegory on toxic masculinity, Wounds is a subtle slow-burn to a fault, in that after 90 minutes of build-up, it ends up going nowhere - at least, nowhere worthwhile.

Neither convincing enough as a serious horror film nor silly enough to be much fun, Wounds sees Hammer and co-stars Dakota Johnson and Zazie Beetz flailing to keep the enterprise afloat, even if with a lesser cast and crew this would've been instantly dismissed as the trash that it unmistakably is.