Nailbiter
Nailbiter
R | 28 May 2013 (USA)
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A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

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Twilightfa

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

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Lucia Ayala

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Jakoba

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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Jemima

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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fclermont777

Look, go play outside, or you know what? Just wait and no nothing for an hour and a half. Meditate or something. Or watch something else.The acting is bad, camera work is bad, dialogue is bad, most of the time the action is outside of camera frame, and when you see something, it's not believable at all. Thw whole plot is bad. The reactions are bad. The characters are seriously stupid as f***.This is not a "this is so bad it's good" bad movie, it's a "I am ashamed of myself for choosing this movie" bad movie.You deserve more than this. Don't lose your time.By the way, I love horror movies. It's all I watch. And I regret giving attention to this one. I hope everyone involved in this movie are actively looking into another career field.

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JoeB131

Okay, I really honestly think that Hollywood thinks the flyover country between New York and Los Angeles is entirely occupied by inbred mutant monsters, and that's why they pretty much have contempt for the rest of the country.So we have a recovering alcoholic mom who is going to drive through tornadoes with her three daughters to meet her returning veteran husband at the Kansas City Airport. Incidentally, the whole plot point of her being a recovering alcoholic is introduced, and other than having a few scenes where she encounters alcohol, nothing is done with it.Equally introduced and goes nowhere is the boyfriend of one of the daughters who just wants to have sex with her, but she's playing with him. Why was this in the movie? No reason.Well, they eventually get trapped in the storm cellar of a town where the whole population is some kind of shape-shifters who turn into monsters when there is a storm.The payoff is nihilistic garbage where the people you are supposed to like are killed by the monsters.Honestly, it's garbage where I guess some technical people were trying to build their resumes... I'm really sorry I invested any time into it.

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notnice Lee

Very Different! but a movie definitely worth watching. This movie had a very unique storyline and was creative and I liked it a lot.I would recommend this movie to a friend. I wish they did give a little more details about the town and the actual creatures, but I guess you can't have it all in a 90 minute movie. Overall I'm please with this movie and would like to see a part 2 were these beast can battle some solders and not 4 little girls.If you have time please do pick this horror flick up and you will be amused. I watched a lot of bad movies in my day's and this isn't one of those movies.

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MrGKB

...is while you're wondering when this well-intentioned misfire will be over. Co-written and directed by a young Kansan auteur who is apparently more at home in the short form, "Nailbiter" is far from a terrible film, but sadly not much closer to a good one. It just is what it is: heavily derivative make-work, yet another illustration of Sturgeon's Revelation.The acting is nowhere near as bad as some have claimed here, with a particular nod to relative newcomer Meg Saricks, but the cast is hampered by mostly uninspired dialog (and plotting) and a few too many "oh, c'mons!" to ignore. No, I'm not going to bore you with another recap of the story, but the set-up is particularly clumsy, what with our little band of heroines ignoring tornado warnings for nonsensical reasons and then falling prey to a whole series of unlikely occurrences, stupid decisions, and unwilling suspensions of disbelief (Please, oh, please, oh, please! Just how many times do we have to put up with the dropped cellphone signal gimmick?) It's just plain lazy writing, say I.Sadly, I can't really claim any good reason to even review films like "Nailbiter," other than to perhaps warn a few people away from them, as well as express my displeasure with the sort of deceptive marketing that promotes them, the blatant cherry-picking of unreliable blurb whores, and the indiscriminate websites that host said mavens. "Delivers serious tension" - Ain't It Cool News. Liar. "A stellar claustrophobic and paranoid horror thriller" - Cinema Crazed. Not. "Sharp and deadly" - Bloody-Disgusting. What, your ticket stub? "Ingenious, creepy, delightful" - DreadCentral. Who are you sleeping with?All I know is this one didn't cost me a dime, but I still feel cheated out of the time I spent with it.

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