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  Review by CJ ★★★★★ 3

  Nina is 28 years old, beautiful, artistic and much-loved... When she dies in a car accident, it leaves her boyfriend Rob devastated. He tries to kill himself and, when that fails, gets a job stacking shelves at the supermarket. Here, he meets 19 year old Holly, who's bored and full of a passion with nowhere to go. She falls for Rob and the two begin a tenuous relationship. However, it all goes wrong when, the first time they have sex, a dead and broken Nina emerges from beneath bloody bedsheets and refuses to let go of Rob so easily...

  Obviously, to some extent, dead Nina is an allegory but Nina Forever as a film goes so much further and says…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★

  "Oh God, not again!" -Nina,

  - DHH #40 (Oct. '21): boxd.it/dsjmu

  I thought sex automatically made a movie better... I was wrong.

  The concept of a dead ex coming back to haunt you during sex with your new girlfriend is a funny one that I thought a whole movie could be made out of but I was sorely mistaken. This is just gratuitous and mundane and over the top in ways that feel unsophisticated and under-developed. I didn't really hate it I just found myself unimpressed and a little bored for most of it. Might have made a better short film.

  Not my thing but I've seen much worse.

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  Review by sirvived ★★★★

  I'm kind of amazed by this. This is a delightfully different take on dealing with your partner's baggage, which is actually very clever and immensely entertaining. It’s original, funny, touching, gross, and sexy all at once. The concept at the heart of it is peculiar and unraveled in a really interesting way. Its ability to capture the complexities of romantic relationships is simply fascinating. The most crucial thing is that the romance is totally believable. Both leads are absolutely killing it with their roles and able to lift this ghost story above the usual horror romance combo. Without the comedic elements, this film would be so much depressing, though.

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  Review by bree1981 ★★★

  This is a hard film to classify, it's a strange tale off loss, guilt and dealing with grief, the main concept has a dramatic tone but there are also elements of horror movie and pitch black sex comedy.
  Cian Barry stars as Rob, a guy in his late twenty's who's girlfriend has recently died in a road accident. Depressed and suicidal, he gives up studying for his degree and takes a job stacking shelves at a local supermarket. It's hear that he meets Holly (Abigail Hardingham), a freaky type of girl and the two are soon falling for each other. The problems begin every time they have sex, Rob's dead ex-girlfriend Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) decide's to make a bloody appearance…

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  Review by 𝙺𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎 🐞 ★★★½

  Taking the phrase "over my dead body" quite literally.

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  Review by Andy Lunn ★★★★★

  A couple are haunted by the reappearance of his dead girlfriend every time they have sex. A brilliant concept, marvellously realised in this bloody, icky, pervy little Brit Flick, which I loved.

  My only concern was that it kept appearing to end, and then went on a bit more. However, on reflection, I think it needed that extra breathing space, in order to deliver the full force of the ending.

  One of my favourites of Frightfest 2015.

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★½

  Has anyone ever told you, you're a really weird little girl?
  -Samira

  The Blaine Brothers, Ben and Chris, make their directorial debut with a wickedly entertaining little horror film dealing with love, loss and closure.

  When wannabe Goth girl, Holly (Abigail Hardingham), snags her dream guy, Rob (Cian Barry), a co-worker that recently tried to commit suicide over the death of his girlfriend, things get complicated when said dead girlfriend keeps materializing every time they have sex... in the same bloody appearance she had when she died. You should think twice before wanting to be dark, it just might happen.

  Using this as a metaphor for "letting go" doesn't even need to be analyzed all that much, you just replace…

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  Review by Paul Thomas ★★★★

  When we love someone, we also must come to terms with their baggage and skeletons in the closet. Nina Forever takes that to an incredibly literal level and has a seemingly ridiculous premise that slowly eases into a very honest look at the more realistic struggles some relationships have to work. Struggles that many Hollywood films miss while focusing on sillier misunderstandings.

  It also has an interesting read on open relationships. I appreciated its uniqueness and it kept me engaged

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  Review by Digital Press ★★

  I chose this thinking my wife might enjoy a little rom-com mixed in with the evening horror film. Well, she fell asleep so I’ll never know. This was an interesting concept and at times pulled it off - all of the scenes with Nina in it were intense and interesting. The romance business just didn’t work. I mean, people complain that ridiculous things happen in horror movies but the very concept of the two living parts of a love triangle trying to make it work is more ridiculous than anything you’ll ever see in a zombie movie. And the comedy - I guess it’s “dark comedy” - is neither dark nor funny.

  Missed the mark for both of us.

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  Review by DeathBolt ★ 1

  A deeply annoying film.

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  Review by nadine 🔪 ★★★ 1

  “I’d love it if my boyfriend tried to kill himself cause I died.”

  basically they fuck, Nina shows up and messes with them, she leaves, they fuck again, repeat. I haven’t seen Life After Beth but this seems to employ a similar premise and is also very dark yet funny. nothing really special about it per se as it chuggs from sex scene to sex scene with morbid relationship drama in between but I like how the grossout moments of the corpse as intruder mark their new intimate space with an actual presence of that emotional baggage she signifies.

  a cycling mourning process turning back on itself. there is something raw about how bitter it is with its characters, not…

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  Review by 12drue 🎞️ ★★★½

  Robs große Liebe Nina ist in einem Verkehrsunfall gestorben. Langsam beginnt er sein Leben wieder in den Griff zu bekommen und verliebt sich in die junge Holly. Unangenehm nur, dass bei ihrem ersten Sex plötzlich die tote Nina im Bett auftaucht und nicht erfreut ist, dass er sie betrügt: Rob: "Du warst tot!" Nina: "Wir haben nie Schluss gemacht!" Rob: "Dann mache ich jetzt Schluss!" Nina: "Das geht nicht, ich bin tot!" (Gedächtniszitat)...
  Der Film ist ganz anders als ich gedacht hatte. Ich hatte eine schräge, aufgedrehte Horrorkomödie erwartet. Zwar gibt es einige schwarzhumorige, makabre Szenen und Lacher, es überwiegen aber eindeutig die düsteren und ernsten Momente. Der Film behandelt auf seine ganz eigene Art Themen wie Trauerbewältigung und Verlustängste. Die Mischung aus ernsten Themen und skurrilen Situationen hat mir dabei gut gefallen. Die blutigen Sexszenen nutzen sich auf Dauer aber etwas ab, davon hätten es ruhig etwas weniger sein dürfen....