Nails (2017)
A woman paralyzed following a car accident desperately tries to get her family and doctors to believe that she is being terrorized by a malevolent presence in her hospital room.
Classy little British horror film with a great central performance from The Descent's Shauna Macdonald. At first it seems she could be so traumatized that it may all be in her imagination but as the film continues we get back story regarding the hospital and former patients and things become a little clearer. The Nails character is a beautifully realized grotesque creation that is quite creepy especially when it carves words into Macdonald's body using it's er' nails.
Although the plot is fairly slight and there's not an awful lot of action - what can you do when your main character is paralyzed in bed? - Nails is a disturbing and deft little thriller that i really enjoyed.
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