Nails is about a woman who winds up hospitalized with limited range of movement and limited speech, a terrible experience for anyone, but to top off her nightmare sundae, she has a ghost in her hospital room. This is a great premise to start with. The director knows how to effectively splice found footage elements with more traditional camerawork, and there are some inventive scare scenarios enacted here. The heroine is entirely sympathetic, not just because she's written that way but because the actress who plays her is able to win the audience over to her side. But unfortunately the pacing is so silly it's hard to take this movie seriously for long enough to get really scared. The screenplay throws all kinds of stuff at you for why the ghost is there, and why Dana can see the ghost. I can buy that the hospital hired this guy after he arrived there as a mental patient, because the 1970s y'all. But then the movie had to have a whole yacht of coincidences as to why Dana is being reunited with Nails, along with a subplot about a possible affair that doesn't really add anything to the story at all, and a creepy administrator whose creepiness turns out to be unimportant to the plot. It's not the worst horror movie I've ever seen by a long shot, but Lord it ain't the best.
