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Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Trying to clean up the town, a small island preparing for the upcoming summer tourist season finds the area overrun by the release of a mutated swarm of cockroaches from a nearby experiment facility and must try to stop the deadly creatures.This here was quite a decent enough creature feature. One of the film's better elements is the rather fun time this one has in the beginning where it sets up their impact on the island, bringing up the insects' involvement quite well. The first few animal attacks are a great start, being incredibly creepy scenes showing their eye- view scurrying across the underbrush after the critters as well as the accompanying buzzing sounds that go along with them which all makes for quite a nice build-up here before turning it over to the first attacks on the townspeople. From the attack on the lonely worker in the car graveyard to the diner ambush, a chilling sequence at the house where they awake to the bugs crawling all over the house as well as the later double attack in the store-owner's home. Other great scenes come from the great fun of the bugs appearing around town as there's truly fun and enjoyable scenes here in their attack on the diner which is great with the roaches appearing all over the place and putting the whole area to use in order to stop them, the rather tense and thrilling encounter at the mayor's house which not only features the chilling attempts to keep them out along with the inclusion of the giant mutated bug creature that's quite fun as well as the big battle in the lighthouse at the house which all has plenty of great action scenes with the chilling bugs. There's also some chilling scenes in the cave finale where the bright light and dark rocky caves has a rather chilling atmosphere that makes it work nicely with the suspenseful encounters trying to get out while also featuring the last bits of the cheesy creature gore which occurs here. Along with the film's rather breezy pace and rather 80s-era special effects work in the gore and creature effects, these here make this one enjoyable enough for the time- period. There's a few minor flaws here, which mostly stems from the fact that there's just so many tried-and-true clichés featured here that there's little originality to what's happening here, which makes this a pretty shock-less effort with this running through everything so readily and being easy-to-guess at what's going to occur that there's no real surprise in how it all plays out. Not only that, but it also plays into the film's human protagonists where it features the slimy official who won't do anything despite overwhelming evidence that something's not right, the sketchy doctor with their own personal agenda and the expected love triangle that's none too interesting getting played out like normal here and really helps to sell the clichés present. As well, there's also some potentially disturbing and hard-to-watch scenes here where they really have animals in distress on-screen to showcase some of the attack scenes with the cockroaches and it's not explicit in their actions but wholly uncomfortable seeing such moments however brief they are, even though there really is nothing graphic shown to indicate that. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot wrong here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, violence against animals and Language.

"The Nest" isn't the best of this kind of film you're ever going to see, but it certainly isn't the worst, either. It's a decent creepy-crawlies shocker, loosely based on a novel by Eli Cantor, that if nothing else will hit home for any viewer with a roach phobia. It's competent without being distinguished, but does deliver some solid visceral thrills during its fairly trim 88 minute run time.A New England fishing village finds itself inundated by hordes of killer cockroaches when an experiment goes horribly wrong. Among those forced to deal with the increasingly untenable problem are a young sheriff (Franc Luz) who's inherited his job from his late father, the morally compromised mayor (Robert Lansing), the mayors' daughter (Lisa Langlois) who's returned home after a stint in the big city, a demented scientist (Terri Treas), and a quirky exterminator (Stephen Davies).Terence H. Winkless, who'd received co-screenplay credit (with John Sayles) on "The Howling", debuts as director here and does a decent job. He does get good performances out of his cast, especially the lovely Treas as a crazy lady who seems oddly turned on when roaches start nibbling on her hand. Also in the cast are Diana Bellamy as a demanding local busybody, Jack Collins as the amiable Shaky Jake, and Nancy Morgan (first wife of the late John Ritter) as sweet diner waitress Lillian. Luz is a very likable hero.The on location shooting (including use of the legendary Bronson Caves) is an asset, as is the spooky music by Rick Conrad. The special effects are reasonably impressive, with some fun shots of roaches growing out of people and forming hybrids with animals that they've ingested. The many shots of swarming roaches are sure to make some in the audience squirm in their seats.If you enjoy a good gross 'em out horror film and particularly enjoy those that revolve around ravenous insects, then you should be able to appreciate "The Nest".Six out of 10.

A story line that isn't unfamiliar. Flesh eating cockroaches come out of their nest to terrorize the citizens of a small fishing community. The local sheriff (Frank Luz)has his work cut out for him. I comes very apparent that the friendly little island community of North Port is gradually being overrun by roaches. The only exterminator around(Stephen Davies)is certain these roaches are immune to the customary and even strongest chemicals he has. The daughter(Lisa Langlois) of the mayor(Robert Lansing)has barely returned home after four years and is the one who discovers where the menacing bugs are nesting. Before long the roaches have the ability to assume the form of anything they kill...say a household cat...so an animal/roach hybrid appears and even sooner than later a roach/human. The movie is easy to enjoy; its just not very redeeming. The special effects are actually pretty good compared to the lousy acting. The cat/roach is pretty creepy. Too bad it didn't get more screen time. Others in the cast: Diana Bellamy, Terri Treas and Jack Collins.

spoiler--Biohazard waste from chemicals dumped on an island off the coast Maine (looks like California) seep into the ground thereby contaminating the insect life. What appears are killer insect roaches that not only eat into their victims, but alter their victim's DNA structure creating a new race of hybrid mutants. This happens to all animal life including cats, birds and (yes) humans.We have Robert Lansing as the mayor of the island who's in deep denial about the whole thing; gorgeous Terri Treas as the evil scientist who sees the whole event as a golden opportunity; pretty Lisa Langlois as the mayor's daughter who doesn't think too much about her father; Steven Davies as the bug spray man who first tells everyone what the problem is, and Franc Luz as the not-too-bright sheriff who inherited the job from his dad.The best scene is when we see Lansing as his body starts tearing apart from within as the roaches burrow into his body. The only thing left is a skeleton covered in a bloody mush as it approaches a terrified Lisa Langlois in the study. He looks kind of like the main creature in George Romero's CREEPSHOW. Not bad for cheese.Also the 'monster' at the end is classic Corman with skulls, twisted limbs and all kinds of gooey, fleshy tissue with animal parts all slapdashed together that looks like an update in style from Corman's earlier 50s sci-fi cheese epics. Watch it as it eats Terri Treas at the end by consuming her, head first. You know someone that evil (and sexy) is going to get their just rewards. She's the best thing going, looks and acting-wise since Jane Badler menaced the earth in V (1983). Not to mention the fact that they both look the same and could be sisters. And what better way to save the world than to set off some dynamite in a cave in order to blow the thing up. It's also a race against time in order to get the lighthouse working so the government won't spray the island with insecticide thereby killing off all the surviving inhabitants. Once again another over the top drive-in event from the likes of Roger Corman and his Concord/New Horizons production company. Too bad drive-ins were fast becoming a thing of the past when this one was released.5 out of 10