one of my absolute favorites!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

'Nina Forever' is a film that is tough to describe in a nutshell and say which genre it belongs to. It is being presented as a horror comedy on many film related websites. Does it have its horror elements? Yes, it does have a ghostly corpse of a dead ex-girlfriend returning to haunt Rob and Holly whenever they decide to engage in sex. So it does deserve its horror title in a way. Is it funny? Yes, there are a number of laugh out loud moments and lines many of which come from Nina herself. So, the film can be called a loose comedy. Is it a romance as it has a few tender moments between Holly and Rob? Let's leave that question for later. For me, I think at the heart of it, the film is a hardcore drama about the pain of suffering a loss and the difficulty to move on and also the effects that one partner's baggage and the trauma that he/she brings to a relationship has on the other person.Similar to 'The Babadook', 'Nina Forever' uses some of the elements of the horror genre to explore grief and the struggle to move on after the death of a loved one. Rob's girlfriend Nina had died which made Rob so depressed that he attempted suicide. The film delves deep into how fractured his psyche is. He has to regularly visit Nina's parents to get some support and not collapse again. Holly, a shy girl who works at the same supermarket as Rob gets intrigued by him and they end up dating. The problems arise when the corpse of Nina start appearing whenever Rob and Holly have sex. Why do we not get too many scenes involving Rob and Holly having tender moments with each other except one or two? That is where my problem arises when someone calls this film romantic, because this really isn't. Holly and Rob didn't actually enter this relationship because they admired or liked each other. For Holly, it was an attempt to 'mature' and make herself 'dark'. For Rob, this was a rare occasion where he thought he had found someone who was interested in him and didn't consider him a freak after his suicide attempt. For Rob, in a way, Holly was a way to get over Nina which he actually did manage to do in the end withstanding great difficulty, pain and specially guilt which appeared in the form of Nina whenever he had passionate sex with Holly. From Holly's point of view this is a bit of a disturbing coming of age story. Holly entered this relationship trying to grit herself up. It is mentioned that she is still young and people view her as this sheltered, 'nice', 'vanilla' kid whose niceness sort of makes her a bit uninteresting. So the situation with Rob gave her the opportunity to indulge in something outside of her comfort zone. It was her way to show that she was a mature adult who was also capable of helping others and not just a sweet youngster. Her interest in being a paramedic is another hint of her desire to become a helper. So it is the darkness in Rob's past that attracted Holly and her desires to help him and not Rob as a person. The only problem is, she underestimated the extent to which Rob was traumatised and unfortunately as Rob got better due to Holly's persistent help, the mental instability rubbed off on her and it was she who couldn't get rid of 'Nina'. Nina became her insecurities, her fears, her paranoia and Nina started haunting her instead of Rob. In the process of helping out Rob, she slowly but surely had lost her own identity and her life started to revolve around ensuring the eradication of all things which is a reminder of Nina from Rob and her life and Nina as a result ironically took over her life. The film ends with a marvellous shot of Holly on her bed now with black bedsheet. She is on one side while the other side is vacant. This is a juxtaposition and a visual call back to an earlier similar shot in the film where Holly has the phone on the other side. The last shot of the film taken in context with the earlier one shows the change that has taken place inside Holly. She tried to stare at the abyss, but unfortunately, the abyss looked back and she couldn't cope with it.The film is a disturbing indictment of how the personal baggage that one person brings to a relationship can deeply affect the other person negatively and sometimes in a permanent way.The screenplay is great, but what makes this film really brilliant is the direction and the visual style of the Blaine brothers. The framing of the characters is meticulous. We get various shots of Rob and Holly separated by a barrier, sometimes shots of their feet on either sides of a line. The make up of Nina and the way all the scenes involving her are shot with the shimmering lights to give the illusion of car headlights is brilliant. The directors use very intricate editing very artistically especially jump cuts, sometimes within the same scene like Godard's 'Breathless'. There are also very poignant moments of silence both in the interior as well as exterior scenes that really impressed me. Nature and the surroundings play a role in the film. The film also uses sound brilliantly. The performances are straight all across the board.'Nina Forever' is a very heartfelt film about grief, trauma and relationship baggage. It uses horror elements to explore very human problems. It might throw a pessimistic light on romance and relationships, but the mature way in which the directors treat the story and the characters, ends up distinguishing this film from the Hollywood comedies with similar plots involving dead girlfriends coming back. Highly recommended.

It would be easy to just boil it down to: nudity and intercourse - with added dead girl, whose pretty bloody. And not blood from her period I might add. But there is a lot more here than just the obvious. The story itself is so far out, that you wonder how the person who wrote it came up with it.Some would call it wicked, others outright crazy I reckon. Whatever your take is, you can't deny a certain appeal this will have (for obvious reasons). But while it's tough to decide what some might find arousing and others a turn off (having someone watching you having sex alone is surely to divide people). Also: How many mattresses can a person buy? Like for real, it's messed up (literally).But the ideas are crazy and you'll either like it or hate it. I'm not sure I would want to be in the position the guy is in. Then again ... But whatever the case it's haunting and it's refreshing and the ideas keep coming (well as you can imagine not the only thing ...).

I will never give up on a film, within reason, but there were times during this that I either wanted to fall asleep, or just switch off. I wanted to see it, purely because it had Fiona O'Shaughnessy, a girl who's quickly become one of my favourite actresses, hugely talented, and that voice, she is fantastic, but even she couldn't inject the spark that failed to light this film. A film that crosses over so many different genres, it's attempting to be avant garde, psychological, black humoured, it does bits of each, but isn't particularly strong in any. The music was great throughout, acting spot on, maybe it was the direction, just a bit slow.This should have been awesome. 5/10

I think the directors were inspired by other movies when they made this but the result is not to well. The main issue is that it follows the same scenes over and over again, the couple is making love, the dead ex-girlfriend mysteriously appears from under the sheet and so on. After one hour I had to stop it and finish the film two days later, it was that boring.Maybe more complex it was better and not so humble with the story, the only good aspect is the acting witch wasn't too bad and Nina's appearances who were creepy, at least for me. Only to watch by fans of the resurrection, blood, tender and horror all this put together in a film and you get Nina Forever.