Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Yasmin Murphy

After nearly a hundred years of service, the Mercy Falls Children’s Hospital is closing its doors for good. It seems that the local authorities have detected a strange deterioration of the building’s ...( read more  read more... )structure. During the next three weeks the remaining patients will be transferred to London hospitals. But the process is taking longer than expected. A series of rainstorms has grounded the helicopters in charge of transporting the patients and a bizarre case of children's bones breaking for no apparent reason are making everyone afraid of something intangible, invisible. Something that shouldn’t exist. Something full of pain. And hate.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Jaume Balagueró

Release Date: August 4, 2005

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  • January 15, 2009
    "A ghost story."

    In Wight Island, Amy Nicholls arrives in the old Mercy Falls Children Hospital to work as night nurse as replacement of the former nurse Susan. The hospital is in a deactivation process, with the patients being transferred to Saint James Hospital; however...( read more), due to a train crash, the closing process has been postponed. Amy is introduced to eight children with lung cases by the nurse Helen Perez, and she feels a sort of attraction for the terminal girl Maggie. Maggie likes to play with some letter blocks to talk with the "mechanical girl" called Charlotte that would live upstairs, in an abandoned floor. Amy asks about Charlotte to her coworkers and they explain that she is an urban legend and the Maggie is making up her existence. But sooner they find that the children can not be transferred to Saint James since there is something evil that wants to keep them near.

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    Darkness (Balaguero's movie before this one) had a very basic plot. This is to shot 54673 frames (some for them in white) to the viewer so he or she can get scared. Not succeed. Like in Matrix nobody accepted that (old) idea and then he decided to move to another ground. This is, the classic modern horror movie. Fragile is a horror movie that moves the heart and gives cold sweat with very evoking images, rocking music and shocking scares. Calista Flockhart is even doing something with her performance, but the little girl and Richard Roxburgh really buy the movie. What could had been a stupid remake of another Japanese movie in the hands of the wrong director, it turned into a beautiful story about weakness and love.
  • May 17, 2008
    *SPOILERY*

    Charlotte could've been so much scarier had she not been turned into that weird, morphing *thing*.
  • August 8, 2007
    I usually like ghostie films but this was terrible. I don't know quite why but it just kept making me fall asleep. Perhaps it was because it was a joint venture between England and Spain (or maybe it was setting it on the Isle of Wight!) but I think the most likely reason was the...( read more) overly slow pacing and Asian-style storyline that just bored me. Calista Flockhart was dull as ditchwater too.
  • February 2, 2007
    Loved Darkness and The Nameless, but despite being creepy and having a pretty intense scene or two, this one was brought down by Flockhart's way over the top acting. Plus, it wasn't much beyond a standard ghost story.
  • November 3, 2009
    The story was quite unusual. It was deep, dark and disturbing. Been watching this movie for several times but still couldn't get enough of it!
  • September 2, 2009
    One of my favourite scary movies.
  • August 7, 2009
    Ahh, This Flick Makes Sense :)
  • July 15, 2009
    im not a massive horror movie fan, im too much of a wimp :) but this is quite decent it creeped me out and had an interesting story...
  • July 8, 2009
    I don't have any interest in this movie. i think it would be a good horror movie but, it dissapoint me because i didn't get the horror sense
  • March 22, 2009
    fragil los huesos delos nińos.. excelente el guion,!

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  • yazzym
    October 26, 2006
    i love thnis film although you may have to watch it more than once to get what going on

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