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Synopsis: Dana Milgrom (Shauna Macdonald) is a track coach and mother who's survived a near-death car accident, only to find herself paralyzed and trapped inside her own body. Forced to communicate via an artificial voice program and hooked to a breathing machine, she becomes convinced that a terrifying presence called Nails exists inside her hospital room. No one believes her - not even her own husband, who think she's experiencing a mental breakdown. As her marriage disintegrates and her grip on reality starts to shred, Dana fights to convince the doctors and staff that Nails is real and intent on destroying her.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director(s): Dennis Bartok
Production: Dark Sky Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
47%
Year:
2017
85 min
Website
55 Views


I hear you're

having some issues.

Feelings that

you're being watched.

You want to talk about it?

- I can't talk.

I can't talk.

Hole in my throat.

- That's a great sign.

Humor is life affirming.

- Hmm.

Life is life affirming.

Death is nothing.

I know.

Was dead.

- Technically, yes.

You were dead for

two or three minutes

before the paramedics

revived you.

Do you have any memory

of that experience?

- No memory.

Just voices.

All around me.

- Who was it, paramedics?

- No.

Dead people.

Grabbing at me.

I could feel their hands.

I could feel their fingernails

digging into my skin.

Pulling me down.

- Now you say you feel

you're being watched?

- Something not right

about this place.

I can sense it.

Nobody wants to listen.

They treat me like a child.

- Nothing bad is going

to happen to you, Dana.

You're safe here.

We all want to help you.

- I wish Steve was here.

Or Gemma.

I miss watching her sleep.

When she was a baby

I would check on her

all the time,

make sure she was breathing.

Just feel so alone without them.

- Hey.

- Someone...

Someone turned off machine.

- What?

- A man turned off the machine.

I saw him.

- Him who?

- Don't know.

Awful face.

Long hands.

Not just watching me anymore.

- So just use the mouse pad

to click on whichever

camera you want to...

The two in here and the one

in the corridor outside.

Zoom in and out using the stick

and there's limited panning

left to right.

Trust me, no-one's

gonna sneak up on you now.

- Oh my god.

I didn't know

that's what I looked like.

- Hi.

Yeah, I'm with Dana right now.

Listen, I really appreciate

you getting her.

You're a life saver.

Okay.

I'll see you later

back at the house.

Okay. Bye.

That was Ashley.

Remember, the new girl

on the team?

She agreed to give Gemma

a lift home from school.

- Ah.

- I couldn't think

who else to call

- with all this craziness going on.

- Mmm.

- Excuse me.

- I see they've installed

the cameras, that's good.

That should put

Dana's mind at ease.

I don't think her mind

will be "at ease"

until we find out who

shut off that ventilator.

- You're still insisting

that somebody intentionally

switched off

her breathing machine?

- Which is what she saw.

- Which would be

attempted murder.

The machine failed.

And I'm incredibly

apologetic about that.

We had it inspected.

It was a freak occurrence.

- Just take care of her!

Or so help me god,

I'll sue the arse off you

and this hospital.

- This is absolutely

unacceptable.

Thank god it wasn't worse.

It could've been

a total disaster!

- I've been telling you this

for a long time,

we've got electrical issues.

D'you know what's

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