Nails

It's been a while since I've sat down to watch an actual scary movie and maybe that's why Nails scared me the way it did. The storyline itself was a little slow but was amazing and did make sense, as did the ending... unlike the usual cliffhanger that horror movies let you interpret. I was even tempted to turn it off and finish it another time because it got so late, nonetheless I was terrified by the ending.

A heavily injured woman? Really? What's next: a horror film about a paraplegic being tortured on a rack by 17th-century Inquisition? Don't these sadistic morons have no boundaries anymore? Evidently not. A moody ghost story but with some rather dumb scenes and an idiotic finale. Firstly, Dana's daughter wanders around a hospital, going into rooms, as if she was a dumb 10 year-old. Secondly, Dana actually believes that the person smashing on the wall - so hard that it visibly shakes - is an old lady tied to a bed. Even Conan the Barbarian couldn't pound on a wall that hard. Thirdly, Trevor the male nurse sees the cupboard shake and his reaction is to... hit it with a baseball bat? Fourthly, Trevor sees himself and the killer ghost on his laptop yet he just sits there, as if watching the Eurovision Song Contest or something. Then there is that slightly nonsensical husband-cheats-on-wife stuff that's kind of unnecessary. The problem with the plot itself is that it's stuck in a rut for a while. Dana is attacked. Dana complains about menace. Hardly anyone believes Dana. She is attacked again. She complains. Key personnel don't believe her. Repeat. The finale is what really ruins the movie, or whatever was good about it. Nails, the killer, somehow becomes visible to everyone else too. Why? How? Dana then offers herself to Nails in what is a rather idiotic and bonehead move. We get the pleasure of watching an invalid woman get thrown around and smashed against walls. Thanks, movie! Thank, sadistic degenerates without a moral compass! Who writes this crap? Little children? Little psycho kids, I mean. Little deranged, moronic, psychotic kids. This kind of plot suffices for a half-hour episode of "Tales of Terror", or whatever. It's difficult to stretch to 90 minutes.

I think Dana should die in the movie because the movie stated that when she was 5 years old, she was cured in the hospital and Nails killed 5 girls. Dana should be one of those girls.

Nails is an Irish horror that rather took me by surprise. Revolutionary? Hardly, but certainly enjoyable. It tells the story of a woman who after getting hit by a car finds herself partially paralyzed in a hospital bed. Miserable and alone she begins to question if she's truly alone or if a supernatural entity really is stalking her. Nails hardly brings new stuff to the table and you'll have seen the majority of it before but thankfully it's done better than most and manages to deliver on both quality and scares. Furthermore why it took me by surprise is that I generally tend not to like British or Irish cinema, they have the habit of following formulas even more generic than Hollywood (And that's saying something). The film manages to build an atmosphere, a great claustrophobic setting and an interesting background for our antagonist. The setting is also excellent, though it perhaps could have been explored a tad more. Starring Ross Noble who many will know as a stand up comedian and Stitches in the movie of the same name, Nails is an enjoyable effort in a highly saturated genre. The Good: Great antagonist Quite well constructed The Bad: Some moments of sheer stupidity Some questionable cgi

This film seemed disjointed. There was a lot of potential within the premise but sadly it just didn't deliver. The plot seemed jumpy and unsure of where it was actually going. The script was dodgy at best and the acting particularly from the Husband was brutal. I don't quite know what they were intending but I would be shocked and surprised if this was it.