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.

Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) discovers Spitfires are not the safest car on the road in the first scene. Her boyfriend Rob (Cian Barry) is coping with her death as he gets by working at the supermarket. Co-worker Holly (Abigail Hardingham) who didn't like be called "vanilla" by her last boyfriend develops a dark side. Her and Rob hook up and discover that his dead girlfriend Nina likes to make appearances during their love making.

Normally such an absurdity would prevent any more such contacts, but Rob and Holly decide they will work through it as the scene turns bloody and requires frequent cleaning. Nina's sharp tongue and catty attitude become the highlight of this dark comedy,

I liked the film up until the ending when the humor aspect fell short as compared to the rest of the feature. They developed a great story, did it well, but I didn't like the final closure. It is a good film for indie lovers.

If you liked "Burying The Ex" and "Life After Beth" give this one a view.

Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Fiona O'Shaughnessy, and thank you Abigail Hardingham )

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?