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5/10
Well made, but so boring.
Sleepin_Dragon21 May 2016
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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
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6/10
NIna For..........never.
kboote19 May 2016
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I felt that this was an interesting premise and I really enjoyed the first half hour of the film. However I have to admit that ultimately by the end I was left with an overall feeling of disappointment and missed opportunity.

The overall highlights were the scenes between the main character Rob, Cian Barry, and Nina's parents. Nina's first appearance is also striking but I felt the scene itself was too rushed and the build up and gradual indications that Nina was in the background could have been handled with greater subtly which would have created more tension. However after this excitable rush to reveal Nina the second half of the film drags so there are definitive issue with the pacing of the film.

In some instances the casting was also far from ideal. The actress who played Holly, Abigail Hardingham, was a very natural and engaging presence, hanging on in there with the relationship despite all of the bizarre difficulties because she wanted to appear "dark" and not "vanilla" and to be committed to her first real boyfriend (although in reality the actress is too pretty to have been "left on the shelf"). However Holly is given no back story and due to the underwriting of her character we become increasingly frustrated that the motivations of Holly become blurred in the second half of the film as her love for her rather dull boyfriend starts to become diluted.

There are two serious problems with the film. The first is the casting of Fiona O'Shaugnessy as Nina herself. The character as written and acted is a highly un-haunting presence. Nina as portrayed in the film is lacking in charm, beauty or personality. Her mocking baby like voice is so irritating that you'd have probably been glad to see the back of her not be so haunted by her to the extent that you couldn't move on from her!! Not to be ungallant but Ms Shaughnessy is also much too old to be playing the fantasy girlfriend role – more suited to the bitter divorcée! -and this unbalances the whole film.

The last half hour was a bit of a drag and the other serious problem, the "twist" ending of switching over the "curse of Nina " to Holly, was silly and felt tagged on. The Writer/Directors., the Blaine Brothers, should have had the conviction to retain faith in the subtext of people being unable to move on from a relationship.

If we had a much sweeter and charming Nina and a more grown up conclusion ( perhaps along the lines of Morettoi/Grimaldi's "Quiet Chaos" ) in which eventually Nina disappeared because the main character was able to finally move on we would have had a poignant conclusion and a more consistent tone to add to the humour and interesting premises. Instead the filmmakers resorted to immature gimmicky that betrayed the original theme of the film.

So maybe next time gentlemen make a film that has the conviction to respect people's intelligence rather than assuming film goers need juvenile sarcasm and a twist ending?
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7/10
Absurd and disturbingly funny. It shouldn't make sense.....
manuelasaez13 February 2016
The premise of this movie makes no sense; the ghost of a man's ex-girlfriend shows up, bloody and battered from the accident that caused her death, every time he has sex. It's absurd, and entirely creepy, if it weren't for how hilarious the ghost of the dead ex-girlfriend (Nina), is. Every line out of her mouth comes of with such a dark and dry wit, indicative of a very British humor, and her appearance broke up some of the more serious parts of the movie with some levity. Th acting is top notch, the SFX is disgustingly well done, and the music is amazing. I just don't think that the parts of the film make for an effective whole. As the movie went on, I started to wonder, "But, why?". Why is she haunting her ex? Did he do something to her that warranted it? Is she taking revenge on him for some reason? It just doesn't come together as well as I would have liked, but the individual parts sure were entertaining. One of the most absurd films I have seen in a long time. Every time I think that all topics have been covered in film, someone comes along and does something wholly original. This is definitely one of those times. Watch this film to just revel in the crazy.
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2/10
Oddly depressing
Leofwine_draca9 June 2016
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NINA FOREVER is a weird, low budget British horror comedy that has no horror and no comedy. I'm not really sure what it is or what it even wants to be, expect to say that it seems to copy the American comedy movie LIFE AFTER BETH in the tale of a guy who keeps being haunted by his dead girlfriend, killed in a car accident.

What it boils down to is that NINA FOREVER is a mess of a film. It's long, slow, and has a boring script that drags the viewer down through endless dialogue scenes that go around in circles and add nothing to the narrative. The only thing it succeeds in being is grotesque, with lots of icky sex scenes in which a bloody corpse comes into play. I also found the whole film to be oddly depressing because it's so poorly achieved.

Unlike other reviewers, I didn't have a problem with Fiona O'Shaughnessy's acting as the oddball Nina. She's weird and has an annoying personality, yes, but I thought that was the point. No, my problem is with the two protagonists in this film, both of whom are hopeless. They're given characters so one-dimensional that they might as well be caricatures; both have zero personality, and there's no reason to like them. They meet up in the film and decide to have sex right away, only to find out there's some ghostly stuff going on. So what do they do? Not have sex? No, that would be too easy. Instead the film follows them as they repeatedly try to make things work in the bedroom, which I found ridiculous. There's more to life than sex after all.

It doesn't help that Cian Barry and Abigail Hardingham aren't very good actors either, although at least the latter has a nice figure, and perhaps the reason for her casting was her willingness to show it off. In any case, NINA FOREVER is a tough film to watch, purely because it's so dull, vapid, and pointless, and it actually made me feel depressed about human existence. Surely we're not all this shallow?
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6/10
What an interesting film - flawed but oh so interesting...
johnklem13 February 2016
A fabulous concept, lots of problems but well worth an hour and a half of your life. For a first film, this is awesome. Its flaws are all of inexperience - an over-egged script and some logical but emotionally unconvincing physicalisations of the dead girlfriend. Its strengths are of original talent, a cast that's much better than the budget would suggest and an utterly unique point of view. One of the strengths of the movie is the actress who plays the living girlfriend. She could be Ruth Wilson's sibling and brings a similar level of interest to the most ordinary moments. The rest of the film is adequate for the purpose - which is exactly what it needs to be. Cinematography and locations are unobtrusive and allow the concept room to breathe. I hope the filmmakers draw the right conclusions and move onwards and upwards. Hey guys, if you're ever in Los Angeles. look me up!
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5/10
No thanks Nina
bobhartshorn17 November 2015
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Nina Forever is the blackly comic debut feature from the writer/director team of Ben & Chris Blaine which begins very promisingly with supermarket drone Holly (Abigail Hardingham) wooing her work colleague Rob, (Cian Barry), into a romantic relationship. Rob is game but still grieving with suicidal tendencies from the death of his previous lover, Nina, who was killed in a motoring accident. This opening segment is well set up with offbeat humour, convincing performances and a disquieting atmosphere thanks to Oliver Russell's sullen cinematography.

Once Rob and Holly hop into the sack however, the brothers Blaine hit premature ejaculation and out pops the bloody apparition that is Nina, spawned from the hereafter for a sabotage mission. Her bizarre and shocking introduction from the inside beyond of Rob's mattress is as impressive as it is gruesome, and quite understandably deflates the newly acquainted couple's appetite for love making. But almost as quickly as Nina's arrival comes the realisation that this is as good as it gets and the story has reached its final destination in stalled county.

The scenario is served up again and again and again as, rather than screaming her lungs out and running for her life, Holly perseveres and messes in (pun intended) with replacing the gore stained bed sheets every time naughty Nina appears from the afterlife to spanner the would-be blossoming romance with the supposedly acerbic diatribes spewed forth from the bowels of her gob.

Add in Rob's continuing and, it has to be said, occasionally hilarious affiliation with his undead girlfriend's parents, and you've pretty much got everything Nina Forever has to offer. There is little more here than a much laboured conceit about not being able to move on with one's life and being tied to the past blah blah blah, with little variation or story progression to hold the interest.

And then there is the problem of Nina herself: in place of a sympathetic and menacing entity from beyond the grave, we have an irritant bore with the voice of a child and the charismatic black hole demeanour of a refugee from Made-In-Chelsea. Whatever it was about this tiresome It-Girl wannabe Rob found so enchanting and beautiful one can only guess at, as any charm and personality plus points she may have once possessed must have been wheeled off to the knackers yard for crushing along with the vehicle she perished in.

Once again, the writing can take a lot of the blame, but this is shared by the miscasting of Fiona O'Shaughnessy in the title role. She looks physically too long in the tooth for young Rob, yet (ironically) lacks the mature thespian chops required to flesh out the complexities this, admittedly difficult role demands, resulting in a double whammy fail.

Some compensation arrives late in the shape of Rob's moving confrontation in a restaurant with Nina's Mum and Dad and the torch passing fate afforded Holly in the closing scenes. Both are well delivered and move things forward slightly. But it's too little too late.

The brothers Blaine have over reached themselves with a half baked story that, despite its allusions to surrealism and the macabre, is far too well behaved & normal for the tropes contained within. Either an off-the-wall, avant-garde, art-house telling or a straight, hell-for-leather, horror roller-coaster would have been preferable treatment to the underwhelming elegance this non-starter has to offer. Better luck next time boys.
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7/10
Who is missing the boat
mikekozel25 February 2016
The work is fresh, unique, and entertaining. It may not have the scope and depth of a great work, but it is certainly good. This is what is good. The photography is guided by an almost nostalgic staging, with the hard shots of a modern view as counterpoint. The sex scenes are so well shot that they are not pornographic, but all the stuff of modern soft porn is there. We are aroused, but the acts are blended with this crazy, complex mix of macabre and psychological challenge that move us away from banal voyeurism to actively dealing with the absurd position of the characters. The staging for the camera is right out of the 40's at times, and posed perfectly for effect. Great camera direction.

The actors give enough to make it work, and that says a lot for them, as this is a very tough film. It moves in a space between black comedy and drama, which is a dangerous place to put actors and camera, easy to bog down, go flat, or list from one genre to another. Acting would have to be light, with dramatic effect made by the mise en scene supporting the effort of the players. This can be said of any film, but in this film, it is a critical necessity. The camera gives us absurd without humor or pathos, simply the view expressing the element of the shot. Which leads to...

The score. This film could never be what it is without the brilliant sound craft. Score, and sound effects have become an other art form in the digital era, and carry a bigger, more fundamental role in creating motion picture work. This film owes lots to a really brilliant scoring, working precisely with the camera for cinematic affect.

This work must be taken as, not a giant, but certainly a shot at form and structure off the path, and done well. Hey, kids, don't try this at home.
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2/10
Piece of crap
deloudelouvain18 February 2016
Well I have the honor to be the first one on IMDb to write a negative review about this piece of garbage. Since there are not much reviews yet, and only positive ones, I guess that most of the reviewers have something to do with the movie. Directly by having participating in it or indirectly by knowing somebody that participated in it. Because honestly you can't tell me this is a good movie. I wonder what the writer was thinking when he wrote this story. He must have been under influence of a nasty drug or he's just a lousy writer. I'll go for option two. The actors are okay except for Fiona O'Shaughnessy. She's incredibly annoying in her role as Nina. I've suffered to watch this wannabe movie until the end. Absolutely not a comedy nor a horror movie. It's just a waste of your time. Well at least it was for me.
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6/10
Interesting, original and depressing horror romance comedy
KineticSeoul3 July 2016
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So this is a horror comedy that revolves around a lot of sex. The plot is about a guy's dead girlfriend that comes to haunt, taunt and latch onto her boyfriend. And his new girlfriend when they have sex or do something kinky. The messages in this is about moving on, inner pain, falling for someone for the wrong reasons and what could have been if things were a bit different. The movie does seem to drag at times and does get quite repetitive from time to time. I did like the dark tone in this film and how it goes into a more realistic direction when it comes to relationships and why certain people fall for each other. Falling for the idea more than the actual person and his or her personality. Despite the supernatural stuff with the nosy dead girlfriend popping up. I thought it was a interesting and original flick, but it did get boring at times and just wanted it to just move on. It gets pretty depressing watching two character just mope around and having sex while dealing with inner pain. Overall, I give this one a 6.9/10 for it's originality and message.

6.9/10
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2/10
Life After Beth...But bad.
scottyholroyd5 March 2016
It has always been us Americans that like to remake films, but this is an example of the Brits doing it, and doing it badly.

Maybe the filmmakers were just not aware of the excellent Life After Beth from 2014, and maybe it's just one of those occasions when two lots of people have similar ideas, but this film has just recently come out, so I'm not sure.

Whatever the reasons this film is pretty bad. It's mediocre in almost every respect, which makes it less entertaining than if it were truly bad.

The actors try their best and I commend them for that, but it's just not a good enough vehicle for them to shine. The directors, and I think I'm right when I say there are two, which explains a lot, seem muddled in their storytelling.

But my main argument is that this has been done before, quite recently, and better. So why bother?

I hope, and think that they will, go on to better things, but they need to learn from this film and see it for what it is before they move on.

I wouldn't recommend it. Just watch Life After Beth. (I have nothing to do with that film!)
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8/10
The ghost of our girl
rooee10 January 2016
This Frightfest 2015 favourite is the first gem of 2016. A British indie written and directed by Ben and Chris Blaine, it's a jet-black sex comedy about a dead young woman who comes back to life whenever her ex-boyfriend has sex. And he's having a lot of sex with his new girlfriend, Holly (Abigail Hardingham).

Avoiding potentially tiresome scenes of endless disbelief, the central couple accept the bizarre situation far more easily than their zombie. Indeed, Holly is actually turned on by the presence of Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy). The latter is in no mood for a ménage a trois, and proceeds to torment the new lovers. She's the embodiment of guilt.

Nina Forever doesn't go for scares. But neither does it go for the surreal. The grounded way in which it depicts its essential weirdness is one of its main appeals. It's reminiscent of the deadpan exchanges between David and his dead buddy in An American Werewolf in London – that's the tone.

Another key element is the characterisation. Holly and Rob (Cian Barry) are entirely convincing as the late-teenage lovers, swept up in their twisted, hermetically-sealed fantasy. And the Blaine brothers throw into the mix Nina's grieving parents, whose struggles to cope (dad's writing a terrible book; mum's trying to keep her daughter alive through Rob) are funny and moving.

The Blaines' control of the material is seriously impressive. Everyone knows comedy-horror is a virtually impossible balancing act, but they mostly nail it, lightening the darkness of the material without ever taking the camp way out. It is horrific and it is funny, which is all you can ask. The balance is achieved through an unholy trinity of sex, death, and love. There's something here about faithfulness. If you never had a chance in life to stop loving someone, how do you have consent to love another? Real thought has been put into the script, creating a uniquely involving genre-evading experience. Its central romance is as carefully rendered as its gore. Nina doesn't just mean different things to different people; she means different things to the same people over the course of the story. She plays a key part in the ending, where quiet revelation awaits.

And that's what this highly original film is: a quiet revelation.
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7/10
One of the strangest movies I've ever seen
robertemerald25 April 2019
Nina forever was a good movie. There's a love affair that is genuine and sweet, and brilliantly portrayed. The dead girlfriend part I guess may have been intended as allegorical to that affair. Or maybe it's just we're so used to the plethora of zombie interpretations the filmmakers thought doing one was part of the curriculum career ladder. In that regard it's certainly original. And the filmmakers are certainly competent, I loved the use of outdoor settings, the streets, carparks and particularly the mists. I loved the way Nina appears, as well as her flopped or distorted postures, and the aspect of blood was probably part of the allegory as well. I docked it a point for never seeing how Nina disappears. That would have blown the budget out a fair whack, but I'm the customer so to speak, and that's what I thought was missing. I docked it another point or two for the direction it took in the latter stages. I simply didn't get it, the allegory had abandoned me. I loved the relationships outside the couple though, particularly with Nina's parents, that was a perceptive touch. I liked the glimpses of modern England and the use of texts. It was a well-conceived plan, and for the most part, worked extremely well.
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3/10
Best to leave the dead alone...
paul_haakonsen11 December 2016
"Nina Forever" starts out a bit chaotic, but it sets a pretty good mood for the movie.

However, that mood was quickly gunned down by the utter boredom that trailed along with this movie. I managed to get maybe just about 30 minutes into the movie before I had to give up out of sheer and utter boredom. I managed to get to the part where Nina returned from the dead for the second time, then I just couldn't take it anymore.

The story is about Nina, who dies in a traffic accident, leaving her boyfriend Rob on the brink of suicide and in a very dark place. When he does manage to find a shimmer of hope in the form of colleague Holly from the supermarket, Nina returns from the grave to interfere whenever they are being intimate.

What killed off my interest in "Nina Forever" was the excessive focus on sex in the about 30 minutes or so that I managed to watch of this ordeal of a movie. It was just too much, and it wasn't helping the movie in any bit. Quite the contrary actually, it was a cumbersome anchor dragging the movie down.

I didn't care one bit for the characters in the movie, as they were essentially as interesting as wet cardboard. Nor can I claim to find much of any interest in the storyline. Sure, the synopsis sounded like this could actually be a fun movie to watch. But it was just painfully killed off by the focus on sex and directors Ben Blaine's and Chris Blaine's urge to show nudity on the screen.

Sure, I had expected this to be a comedy of sorts, and perhaps one that would bring zombies into the frame. But it just wasn't that at all.

I am not going to bother with a second trip to finish "Nina Forever", because it just didn't appeal to anything for me. And I am rating it a mere three out of ten stars, given the fact that it had good camera work, good cinematography and good editing. The rest, nah, not so much...
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2/10
Tedious
mjsreg20 June 2016
Having looked forward to watching this film as a possible modern horror classic, I was disappointed - very.

The story sounded interesting - one which would open up a multitude of opportunities for exploration and artistry.

Unfortunately, it never really developed into anything at all. THe pace was painfully slow at the start, and continued all the way though the film.

Really the only reason for watching this is to see the incredibly beautiful Abigail Hardingham (who plays Holly) naked on many occasions throughout the film.

Although I can see what was trying to be produced, it seemed to be more of an extension of some film school project that needed some severe editing to stop the audience nodding off part way through.

So, watch this if you want to see Abigail Hardingham - otherwise go and do something more interesting, like watching your laundry go around in the machine.
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7/10
Funny love triangle with much blood
erikstuborn8 May 2016
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Surprising small British black comedy of horror, undead, with surreal touches, which highlights the performances of the three young protagonists, specially Fiona O'Shaughnessy, the dead chick. Good script, good acting and interesting game in the editing of scenes, sometimes anticipating what will happen.

With funny (and creepy) moments, it is remarkable that this is the first film of the two directors. It reminded me in a way that other British jewel, fantasy genre, called "Cashback", perhaps only because the work environment at the supermarket...

A very interesting movie, except at the ending, in the resolving of the love triangle situation, maybe because I expected something more brilliant...
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5/10
Definitely one of the stranger films I've seen
chrisfulpfacebook19 February 2016
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I wouldn't exactly put this film into the "HORROR" genre, although it gets bloody at times. Similar to "Burying the Ex", without the comedy, it's at least worth the watch.

The extremely awkward sex scenes are very interesting and the lead actress is gorgeous. These scenes made me feel like I was doing something wrong by watching.

I watched this film simply because I couldn't find anything else. While I'm glad I saw it, I can pretty much guarantee that I won't watch it again. It's definitely not "buy the DVD and add to my collection" material, but it tries.

So....bored? Give it a shot!
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6/10
Some people never let go your hand!
Reno-Rangan14 December 2016
We ask for the fresh ideas and here is the one. This British film was not totally innovative, at least it tried to be different. This horror-comedy was directed by two brothers and it was theirs first feature film. This is the story of two who meet working in a supermarket. The 19 years old Holly and in his 20s, Rob, they instantly fall in love with their first encounter. But there's a problem that they can't sleep together, if they do, then Rob's dead girlfriend appear. So the reason for it and the solution if there is one, is what the rest of the film covers.

It was a little slow, though entertaining. Not a bad storyline, they developed it decently, but the twist was so ordinary. Nothing like we could predict it, but it gives a silly reason. If you are not expecting big, then it might work. The performances were not bad. It's not that funny, because it was a black comedy. Though the story takes place in the open society, the focus has been always between three main cast and a couple of others. That mean it comes to the point, not wasting for useless scenes. That's why it's very interesting, despite not very impressive. Like I said worth a watch for being a different from the usual films.

6/10
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5/10
What was that?
dar041730 July 2020
I guess I was expecting a horror film and got some weird dead ex-girlfriend sex film. I will give them credit for originality but the film just was not that interesting. Watch at your own risk.
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6/10
Nina Forever
CinemaSerf6 April 2024
We start at the scene of a nasty road accident where a fatality is bound to be on the cards. Meantime, "Holly" (Abigail Hardingham) is splitting up with her boyfriend "David" (Javan Hirst). She works in a supermarket and that's where she encounters "Rob" (Cian Barry) and we've sort of come full circle. His long-term girlfriend "Nina" (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) was the victim of the crash. It doesn't take them long before they get down to some furious jogging but in flagrante delicto, guess who appears? Yep - it's the ex herself. Spooky, eh? Blood is soon everywhere which "Holly" can also see - so no wonder she scarpers. "Rob" has to clean up all this mess and find himself a never ending supply of sheets (and possibly a new laundrette) because this shock doesn't dampen the ardour for long. Pretty soon they have even bought red sheets! Clearly there is some sort of rift in the space-time continuum, as "Nina" becomes more mischievous - but how can the couple be rid of her? For about half an hour this is quite darkly funny, indeed the threat of ethereal interference starts to serve as a turn on, but as the story develops that concept becomes a little too oft recycled and the characters rely just a little too much on getting their kits off. We also have a bit of family melodrama with his ex in-laws and the film starts to come off the rails. The writing and directing Blaine brothers have had a spark of an entertaining and quirky idea here, they just can't really stop it from running too far into the realms of silly farce. Still, it is worth a watch and the actors look like they were enjoying themselves - but it does disappoint.
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2/10
Burying the ex
Prismark109 June 2019
I thought Nina Forever was a metaphor about something such as guilt or moving on. That maybe a character was going through some existential crisis and Nina was a manifestation of that.

Some hope. I actually think the writers/directors were not aware of what the point of the movie was. They were just happy that they got funding for it.

It is supposed to be a black romantic comedy/horror hybrid. Rob (Cian Barry) works in a supermarket, he is mourning the loss of his girlfriend who died in a car crash and he puts his studies on hold.

One night he casually hooks up with fellow worker Holly (Abigail Hardingham) and to both their surprise while they are having sex the bloodied body of Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) shows up.

That really kills the mood and happens each time they make love.

The film never explores what Nina wants from either of them. Each time she pops up someone get a gobby mouthful from her. She is so irritating it makes you wonder what Rob ever saw in her.

The film is a boring mess. The irate speech at the end by Nina's father (David Troughton) was good.
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9/10
A multi-layered psychological drama...
BenScreencult30 October 2015
...with a bit of Rom-Com/Horror thrown in for good measure.

We all bring baggage into a new relationship - this film makes the invisible visible and takes you on an enjoyable journey through the process of 'letting go': grief, loss, flights of fantasy, darkness, obsession. It's a haunting story of the impact we have on each other, regardless of whether we acknowledge or even see it happening.

Some people are attracted to the Horror elements (i.e. the blood) but don't be put off by that if you're not a Horror fan. I'm not. And the level of gore is appropriate for the telling of this story: being haunted by an ex- who appears in bed with you and your new partner every time you attempt to have sex.

Nina Forever will make you feel, but then it will make you think. Must see!
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7/10
Rob, Holly and dead Nina too
Stevieboy66627 February 2018
After a period of grief and attempted suicide Robb falls in love with a co-worker Holly - trouble is his dead ex-girlfriend Nina will not leave them alone! This was described in my TV guide as a gory horror comedy but in fact it is more than that. It is very much a tale of love and loss, a black romantic comedy but with some gory horror thrown in. Some horror fans may find it too slow, or boring, but it's not - provided the viewers doesn't expect an all-out horror flick. I felt that all the actors performed well, but Abigail Hardingham as Holly stood out as the best, full credit to her. Nina appears, back from the dead, when Rob and Holly engage in sex, and there is a lot of it here. Non-British viewers may struggle with some of the dry humour & if the end needs some explanation then there is a thorough synopsis here on IMDB.
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4/10
Nina never leaves
adi_200216 April 2016
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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.
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5/10
Ok movie, but too dark
rpahlow-137082 June 2019
I enjoyed the premise and the portrayal of the characters, but whoever chose to shoot this thing in silhouette really made watching it tough on TV.
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7/10
The actress that plays Nina is the reason to watch
juliahairchick14 November 2020
Not well done but visually interesting and the actress that plays Nina steals the movie!
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