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As the new night nurse at a soon to be abandoned children's hospital readies the last group of orphans to leave, it becomes increasingly clear that these are not normal children. Something living in the hospital, something the children call the "mechanical girl," has a terrifying hold over them and will stop at nothing to keep them in the hospital with her forever.
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Fragile is a satisfying ghost story that delivers chills from first scene through last., July 20 2010
By Kathryn E. Etier "Miss Bob" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fangoria Frightfest: Fragile (DVD)
In a soon-to-be-vacant children's hospital, new night nurse Amy Nicholls (played by one of the more fragile-looking actresses of our time, Calista Flockhart) begins the task of readying the patients for their move to another hospital on the same island. The opening scenes with a particularly prescient orphan named Maggie (Yasmin Murphy) set the audience up for the spookiness to follow. Apparently, mysterious broken bones are not the only things to haunt this hospital.Spanish writer/director Jaume Balaguero wastes no time, presenting the audience with thunder, lightning, vibrating drinking glasses, and messages spelled out with children's blocks by an unseen presence. Nurse Amy is remote, neurotic, and using some type of medication--emotional problems, perhaps? After a terrifying episode in a renegade elevator, she doubles the dose of capsules from a maddeningly anonymous bottle.
Children in the hospital refer to a mechanical girl--Charlotte--who "lives" on the second floor, which was abandoned 40 years ago. Just as the audience begins to question why these children, who seem healthy, are hospitalized, it is revealed that Maggie has cystic fibrosis.
Amy's predecessor left her position at the hospital suddenly, and when Amy visits her home to question her about some suspicious happenings, she learns that the nurse had died in a car accident the previous day. Soon Amy, who is haunted by her own ghosts, begins seeing the manifestations the children have witnessed and that the staff either denies or ignores.
The cast is well able to handle this familiar, yet creepy, tale that examines both emotional and spiritual haunting. Thoughtful performances elevate "Fragile" above the level of so many thrillers and horror films.
It's a worthwhile ghost story that chills to the very end.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Good Ghost Story. Worth seeing! :), Aug 8 2010
By Touch of Class - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fangoria Frightfest: Fragile (DVD)
Fragile takes place in a Hospital soon to be abandoned as it is being closed down. Calista Flockhart comes on as a Night Nurse to help out during the transition and discovers something is not right. Overall it was a bit slow for my taste during the middle but picks up. Fragile is a nice change as it is a well made Ghost Story. Fragile is so far the best of the Fangoria Frightfest series I have viewed and I have seen four: Pighunt, The Haunting (HORRIBLE and dubbing actually was so bad I laughed) and Road Kill. Calista Flockhart is good and overall the acting in this film is as well. The Hospital itself is quite creepy. Worth watching for sure :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
In a building that breaks things, Oct 28 2010
By TastyBabySyndrome "T(to the)B(to the)S" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fangoria Frightfest: Fragile (DVD)
In a children's hosptial, many things seem to be goign wrong. The tale starts with a child finding himself injured and with no one to explain this hurt, and the tale gets darker from here. Apparently this thing, whatever it is, has been talked about for years in the hospital and things have been getting worse lately. It corresponds with a move that is taking place form this hospital to another, and it seems to get worse as time progresses. One nurse quits over this, too, frightened by something she has seen and the kids talk about seeing a girl, a mechanical girl, that lives on an abandoned floor of the hospital.Of all the Fangoria movies, this had to be the most frightening. There were parts in it that actually dug their way into you spine and made you shiver, and I personally didn't expect that. What I expected was what many of the others gave you, a campy experience that reminded me of something I might have seen when I was younger, but no. This was the one movie I can say that actually made me feel like I was watching some true horror.
What made this movie were the setting, the atmosphere, the way everything was set up, and the actors. The setting was a hospital that looked like a horrible place with lots of bad memories, and the movie plays off this. It creates a great background and this place delivers even more as the world grows dark. The people in the place act well, too, and this is a great thing considering how you are counting on children to do the things that they sometimes miss out on. Here, there do it grand. And, finally, there is the story.
While you think you know what is going on really quickly, you do not. It has a great twist at the end that is twisted and turned, and this made me think "that was great" when I finished. I expected the very ending to be more dark but that did not come out, but the way the whole of the chase leveled out more than made up for it. Really, with the cost of these movies not being much it really made up for the way things were.
I have to give this movie a high grade because, really, it was worth the time I spent wathcing it.
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