It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

...or at least, as well. This is another in the endless line of scary flicks where the protagonist is terrorized by an inhuman monster, but no one will believe her. Nothing original or particularly scary here, and I kept thinking while watching, I could write a better horror movie than this. Here are some of the idea I have come up with...BALES, a young woman gets a job working on a farm where an inhuman monster appears from inside bales of hay, and no one will believe her. SAILS, a young woman takes a job as a crew member on a sailing ship, where an inhuman monster preys on her from behind the ship's sails, but no one will believe her. KALES, a young woman is threatened by an inhuman monster that lives in the produce section of her local supermarket, but no one will believe her. FAILS, a young female student is haunted by an inhuman monster masquerading as a substitute teacher, but no one will believe her. WHALES, a woman is chased by an inhuman monster when she visits a local aquarium, but no one will believe her. I could go on and on, but will spare you the gory details, because I think I am being stalked by an inhuman monster while writing these TALES.

Yes, we all have bills to pay, but why would you be associated with this drivel, yes the chances of any future horror film being as good as the descent will be slim, but honestly. At the start of the film when you start your run, you should not have passed go but went straight to foresters and got a pint,then tore up this script.

Plot spoilers.Dana (Shauna Macdonald) is a young healthy woman who eats right, works out, jogs, but doesn't look both ways when crossing the street, trusting the lights. She ends up in the ivy covered Hopewell Rehabilitation Hospital. Here she is haunted by a guy nicknamed "Nails" who is not Lenny Dykstra. The film seemed like it was going to be a combination of "Final Destination" and "Sublime" which I really liked.Instead it goes into a tangential explanation. Dana had died and now sees dead people. Or one dead person anyway. She visits a web site where other people see dead people, but no Zelda Rubinstein shows up to help her....no wait she was a patient there years ago as a child...that is why a ghost haunts her that no one else can see. No wait, the daughter now sees her. And why did that happen in the car? The ghost cares about Dana and wants to enact justice for her prior to trying to kill her? They needed to stick with and develop one explanation instead of throwing a bunch of stuff at a wall to see what sticks like a political platform. I think bringing in a flighty woman to look for the ghost was needed to break up the too serious and dry tone.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

I think Nails is about 70% complete while the rest was just air pockets. Can't believe it managed to create the genuine horror atmosphere like it supposed to, without delivering a proper finale. It's like the movie decided to hang itself instead of going all the way. It was on the right track!It's not your usual standard haunting, those come with a good ending. The more of today haunting movie always seem to have a twist. Another character involved, one that stood low for so long and now his crimes are being resurfaced. Nails is a pretty much straight forward production, with plenty of black outs, some attempts at jump scares and a better character development than most. Dialogue is OK, camera works nicely but the script was surely enough incomplete. Just some details missing, but important links that would have offered a proper flow to the movie and would have better connected the viewer to it.Similar movie, as in one that almost impressed but barely missed the mark sadly, is The Haunting of Helena. If you liked this one be sure to check that one too.Cheers!