Product Description

Nails is a stunningly graphic tale of the descent into madness of a lost and haunted soul. The debut film of director Andrey Iskanov Visions of Suffering, Philosophy of a Knife this Russian horror gem takes you on a halting journey of paranoid depravity. Set among the grey concrete apartment buildings of a run-down and soulless town in Eastern Siberia, a mentally tortured assassin for the Russian government becomes disenchanted with life as a killer. He retires to his seedy apartment and, hearing voices in his head, he decides to experiment with trepanation. By drilling holes in his skull, he hopes to be able to see beyond the veil of everyday reality, a reality he can no longer endure. With each nail he drives into his skull, he gets ever closer to the demons on the other side. What awaits him is pure insanity and has awful consequences for himself and those around him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65217 in DVD
• Brand: TLA RELEASING
• Released on: 2006-08-16
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Russian
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 60 minutes

Review
Nails is a visual feast, exploring what the cybernetic fusion of human imagination, mechanical camera, and open exploratory eyes can create. --dreadcentral.com

Customer Reviews

Can the Russians do no-budget horror? YES!
Nails (Andrey Iskanov, 2003)

If you haven't yet heard the name Andrey Iskanov, you should have. Russia is not a country that's been known for its horror films over the years, with its best-known directors all living up to the stereotype of heavy, slow dramas. Iskanov intends to change all that, and Nails, his first feature, does a fantastic job of throwing down the gauntlet.

The story concerns a hit man (Aleksandr Shevchenko) who is subject to strange, unsettling visions. After reading about the process of trepanation, he decides to see if it might help him; rather than go the normal route, though, he decides to pound a six-inch nail into his skull. Rather surprisingly, the technique seems to offer him some relief, and he goes on about his life. As with any temporary measure, though, he builds up a tolerance, and pretty soon he turns to somewhat larger, more destructive implements...

Nails couples the body horror of David Cronenberg with the surrealist sensibility of Jan Svankmajer. While it's probably jumping the gun to say a (relatively) new director is on the same level as those two, I think Iskanov certainly has the potential to have his name mentioned in the same breath once he's got a larger body of work under his belt. (Those who would argue that the cheese factor of Nails would stop this comparison from being valid, let me direct your attention to Rabid and Alice, respectively.) Simply put, the kid's good. Very good. I grant you, Nails is not for everyone, but for those who find that sort of thing amusing, this is a film you absolutely must see at the earliest opportunity. **** ½

LOVERS OF BIZARRE HORROR
To tell the truth I only saw some of this but what I saw was
really bizarre a manikin spitting up blood a man obsessed with
putting nails in his head and a girl who loves wearing water
goggles while hitting her victims with a hammer??? Again
I have not seen but 20 min of this so can't really review it
but wanted my HORROR Bros(you sick devils know who you are)to
be aware of this. From what I saw if you love SCHRAMM-ERASERHEAD
JACOB'S LADDER-TIDELAND-MEATBALL MACHINE-VISITOR Q and THE BEGOTTON this might be up your alley.........WEIRD

PLEASE BE CAREFUL!!!!
This is a good movie, but please BE CAREFUL WHILE WATCHING IT!!!!!! The movie is lout, and it'll make your head hurt after you watch it. It made my head hurt, but I didn't have a headache. This is a strange movie. The Russians are very good!