'Nails' – (2017) – Dennis Bartok.
The unusually athletic Dana (Shauna Macdonald) survives a near-fatal hit-and-run accident, and her prolonged, painstaking physical and mental rehabilitation puts a palpable strain on the relationship between increasingly distant husband Steve (Steve Wall) and her pretty teenage daughter Gemma (Leah McNamarah), her desperate sense of isolation compounded by the conspicuously run down hospital's incumbent spook 'Nails', with his gruesome rictus grin, grievously grey pallor and diabolical deadside manner, Dana's prognosis looks somewhat bleak, frustratingly bed bound, attached to a ventilator, she finds herself wholly at the mercy of this monstrous entity only she can see!
'Nails' is a competent, if somewhat derivative B-Horror that certainly isn't shy about liberally cherry picking a few choice scares from other horror films. Ironically, Dennis Bartok's 'Nails' feels a little too manicured for it sown good, but, excluding the film's lack of invention, overall, the performances are adequate, with an especially energetic turn from Macdonald as the feisty nail fighter Dana! And popular comedian Ross Noble is on endearing form as the bluff, but sympathetic nurse Trevor. This is doable, not essential supernatural horror, as unfortunately these 'Nails' just weren't sharp enough to cut it.
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