"The Nurse" is an American contest-winning live action short film from 2017 directed by Julian Terry and he is also one of the two writers and this is by far not the only short movie he has released so far, maybe his most known though. This is the story of a young girl at a hospital who must have injured her eyes in whatever way and so she has them covered with bandages, which means she cannot see what's going on, but you can ask yourself is the sound of a cart really enough to scare you so much you leave the room and run around in the alleys. I don't know, still I somewhat like the covered eyes idea and it added some nice scare factor as we see something the protagonist (not the title character) does not see. Eventually, out of nowhere, the eyes are seeming recovered well enough to remove the bandage, but yeah what happens then is pretty much to be expected and easily predictable. Well, not the exact way the horror nurse looks, but yeah, the jump scare at the end could be seen from miles ago. Maybe the problem here is that I do not like then genre that much really, but then again there are more than just a few horror films I truly appreciate. Perhaps this one we got here was just not new enough in the sense that I felt it did not bring anything really new to the table. Admittedly with all that's been done before, it is not that easy. The two actresses are okay, but it clearly isn't an actors' movie. Also it's always a huge challenge to make something so short (exactly 2 minutes) work. We don't know what happened to her eyes, we don't know why there is no staff and other patients, we don't know who the girl is. So you have to come up with something special really quickly to make up for all this lack of information. Don't think Terry succeeded here. Watch something else instead unless you really are a sucker for horror films. This one here is definitely nowhere near failure territory.
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