I Saw Black Clouds, Nightmarish and Ominous

You know when you look back at your childhood and remember the movies that legitimately gave you nightmares.  Growing up in the 80s, we're supposed to say "The Day After" gave us nightmares...it didn't. In fact, it bored us to tears, but to seem enlightened and socially conscious, we have to say it did. "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" gave us nightmares, but  we don't mention that. No, we say the mini-series "Holocaust" gave us nightmares, but it didn't. Still, we have to act socially conscious and fake our past fears. Today we look at a hokey film that we can't defend cinematically, other than it will give you nightmares.  Forget the "Terrifier" films, our feature today will give you nightmares. Our feature today is 2024's "I Saw Black Clouds," directed by Iain Ross-McNamee.

The lovely coed Emily (Carla Cresswell) has committed suicide.  Her girlfriends are in shock and desperate for answers.  Enter the sultry, but unhappy Kristina (Nicole O'Neill). She actually begins investigating what happened to her buddy.  This won't go well. A search of Emily's room introduces Kristina to a ghostly arm that grabs her and causes her to find Emily's diary. The diary leads Kristina to a creepy therapist, Dominique (Babette Barat), who uses hypnotism. Emily confided in Dominique that a spooky ghost of a young girl kept whispering to her and was always with her.  The ghost wanted Emily to commit suicide.

This ghost? Yep, further investigation introduces Kristina to Agnes (Ellinor Porsdotter) the ghost. Many generations ago, Agnes drowned herself and her unborn baby. Now Agnes curses the land leading young babes to also commit suicide. Now Agnes is hot after Kristina but Kristina refuses to give up her search for answers.  The quest takes her to a couple of closed down and haunted lunatic asylums,  Agnes keeps claiming coed victims. Kristina finds herself in basements, long dark corridors, or spiral staircases, always with Agnes trailing a few feet behind her.  Then Kristina discovers something horrific.  Something that might indicate she will be the next victim of Agnes' curse on the land.

Ominous and without humor or wit, this film relies on ghostly and eerie images that are all terrifying. We like Kristina but only because she is quite a dish.  Her fate seems that of a doomed beauty.  Can our sultry coed protagonist overcome a centuries old ghost? What really draws Kristina to these abandoned lunatic asylums?  Will there be a catfight between the nubile babe of the living, and the chilled and former nubile babe of the dead?  Prepare for nightmares, even though the story may be lacking.  This is after all a ghost/horror story...so enjoy "I Saw Black Clouds" and don't worry about not being amused.