The 1970s was a decade known in/with regard to’concerning’regarding political turmoil and civil unrest that climaxed with the Winter of Discontent, so no better setting in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a ghost story to rage against the inequalities of the time that are still intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much palpable today.###Writer-director Corinna Faith takes her cues from The Woman In Black and The Others by invoking a feminine spirit in one isolated location – a hospital in a poor zone’district’region of East London with many a darkened corridor to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure lost down. There’s an authenticity to the medical backdrop: West Indian, Irish and working-class women, played by Diveen Henry, Nuala McGowan, Gbemisola Ikumelo and Emma Rigby, respectively, making up the nursing staff while doctors are, of course, white upper-class men. This period texture is enhanced through the production detoken and costumes that heighten the otherworldly atmosphere that Williams’ protagonist acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s pulled into as she seeks answers in/with regard to’concerning’regarding why the ghostly presence of a young female patient is wreaking havoc on the children’s ward and taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ing her in peculiar .###The horror merely simmers as opposed to the feminist messaging that truly scorches.###The more Val learns with regards to’concerning’with respect to the hospital’s history and her less than cordial colleagues, the more she is tormented by the spectral nasty that is causing her mental state to deteriorate. Williams realises this descension grossly well as she wields her limbs wildly and gaze’contemplate’study (‘gape (surprised or shocked)) s through sunken eyes to deliver an increasingly disturbing physical perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance.###The film certainly has all the ingredients in/with regard to’concerning’regarding an unnerving ghost story and makes some elegant choices with the visual and special effects to in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m the ominous threat. However, sharper editing and more effective camerawork might possess’own’nurse allowed the scares to boil over and manufacture some truly fear-inducing results. Instead, the horror merely simmers as opposed to the feminist messaging that truly scorches. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that.