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.

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

How movies like this continue to be released is a mystery to me. Think of every predictable and boring horror trope you know, throw in some sub-par acting, bland and unlikeable characters and you've got Nails. A few minutes into the movie I sensed it wasn't going to blow me away but somehow it still managed to fall way below my expectations. The main character, an athletic coach, mother of one and wife has just been left paralysed and with devastating consequences following a car accident, but despite all that it was impossible to sympathise with her. And she wasn't even the worst of the bunch. Trevor, the nurse/handyman (and apparently the ONLY nurse in the entire hospital) was equally one dimensional and bland, her husband was a cheating scum bag that only further subtracted from the appeal of the movie and the villain was just another creepy faced ghoul that for is hell-bent on murdering an innocent woman based on the fact that he had an abusive childhood. The plot is non-existent as is the build-up, there's no mystery or anything that is even remotely engaging to the audience, and by the end of the movie you're just left feeling you've wasted an hour and a half of your life. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because surprisingly, I have seen worse. Nonetheless, if you're looking for a decent horror movie or a good scare, steer well clear of this movie.

Very poor. I was attracted to this because I love a good horror movie, and it seemed to have a good cast. After twenty minutes of viewing it became abundantly clear a good horror movie was not what I was getting. It was the same predictable, cheap scare (monsterous face to the camera with a sound effect - you know the one) wrapped around some dreadful acting. Ross Noble's performance in this was more akin to an early episode of Byker Grove than a feature film. And poor Shauna. Quite why she took part in this fecal fest, I don't know. Perhaps the electric bill was due. The below par script; littered with exposition problems, poor dialogue, characters who you don't care for, a villain that makes no sense in a situation that makes no sense.All in all it was pretty bad.