Nails (2017)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is an Irish horror movie & as an Irish citizen I was laughing my head off at the building that was used for the hospital, drab with doom & gloom in every corner, I began to wonder if this was a jab at the HSE with over one million working class people on waiting lists to get into actual hospitals in Ireland.As a horror flick it's quite mediocre , a good premise that loses the story at the end. A very healthy female trainer is a victim of a hit & run and ends up paralyzed in the god forsaken hole that's called a hospital. The left side of her face is badly scared and the sutures are really badly done almost grotesque , huge stitches joining the flesh together, her left arm is sewn the same way. There are no coverings on the wounds and nobody cares enough to even check them. No surgeon visits either and no physio therapist is on call, in fact very few people work in this place. The patient also has an endotracheal tube which nobody checks either, but even this looks rather iffy during the story, as it doesn't look that secure.Even though the patient has a husband & a teenage daughter, they rarely visit her so her only friend is her male nurse who only washes her legs. Given her situation she should have a catheter which is overlooked in the film. But when things start to go bump in the night who really cares? Nobody does. Terrified by the putty faced demonic ghost the story unfolds to a very bad ending.

A woman is confined to her bed in a rather creepy hospital. It is not long before things start going bump in the night. The harder she tries to convince her family something is going on the crazier she looks.The leading lady is very good, as is production and script.The hospital has a sinister air about it and there are a few scares that worked quite well and there are enough outside drama to keep the bedside story from going stale.Unfortunately this movie suffers from the same ailment that effect the majority of horror movies. It just runs out of steam.After an hour of being terrified of the bogey man, when he finally shows up he is very underwhelming. The inevitable end sequence is as dull as it is predictable.I had to push through to make it to the end credits and it really wasn't worth it.

Typical horror movie. plot holes, yes. ending, worst ever.

For your run of the mill horror fan this is worth a watch. It ticks off all the boxes of your typical haunt story. The story takes place entirely within an oldish hospital after our protagonist is hit by a car while out for a jog and paralyzed. She soon starts to sense that someone, or something, is watching her. The story has a good pace, it's shot well, the acting and dialogue are fine as are the limited special effects. It's worth a watch on a boring night in the dark but there's nothing original about it so don't expect it to knock your socks off.