Nails is the story of an assassin (his name is Hitman) who has a terrible headache and the only solution to cure it is drastic, that is, sticking a series of nails into his skull! This is only the first step towards a form of self-destruction that in the final part of the film gives us some truly unhealthy and disturbing images, obviously accompanied by blood and offal. A true visual delirium studied in the smallest details starting from the use of color in the three phases that punctuate this debut on acid.
Practical Effects
DIY gore effects that'll make you genuinely nauseous.
Direction
Iskanov's debut screams 'I studied medical textbooks too closely.'
Director
Andrey Iskanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iskanov shot this in Khabarovsk with essentially no budget, doing most effects himself with household materials.
Part of the 'Russian extreme cinema' wave alongside Khavn and Balabanov—filmmakers who treated the post-Soviet collapse as body horror material.
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