The Nest [Blu-ray]

This is in many ways the same movie as the relatively more successful Mimic, only made years earlier. As much as I consider Guillermo Del Toro's job a whole lot more stylized and "hip," as it is the case with most of his movies including The Shape of Water, his "version" feels too pretentious and pre-digested for an audience who wants to feel more intelligent,"empowered" and concerned about "relevant issues" by watching award-winning films by somebody from the "minority," finally getting a break in Hollywood. On the other hand, this little monster flick comes from a long tradition to which schlock classics such as Food of the Gods, Killer Shrews and countless others belong, it shows and, telling by how formulaic the unfolding of the story is and how the characters are cast from the same old mold as its predecessors (mad doctor and all included), is not ashamed of it. However, it did a hell of a better job in grossing me out, as much as it did back when I rented the videotape. As someone who grew up in the eighties and being such a skeptical in repackaging the same product for a "new generation," I say "why fix it if it ain't broke?"The only upgrade I dig is the transfer into blu-ray. That does beat my old, worn out VHS copy by a long shot, even if there's only an audio comment by none other than the director himself. Keep them coming!

Robert Lansing heads up an otherwise nondescript cast. This is one of the ultimate INSECT FEAR movies. Mutant bugs chew through the cast. That's OK. But the climax gets all John Carpenter's The Thing on us in a wicked turn of events. That scene alone is worth the price of admission. This film predates the Mimic series by decades and packs every bit the punch for the bucks. Sure, it's gross. Maybe even tasteless. But hey,Corman gave us Humanoids From The Deep too! The man knows how to pick 'em! Right? Forget the haters and have wickedly good time of shameless gross out fun. So crack a six pack with some friends on a slow night, or a lazy afternoon, and get all bug eyed with this one. And,,,, it's in color!

Not to be confused with the completely dissimilar The Nesting (1981), this is a vermin gone monstrously wrong flick that starts out slow but ultimately does well for itself and gorehound horrorfans. While you'll never see the scene depicted on the provocative DVD cover, this was a respectable and surprisingly nudity-free Roger Corman flick that really deserves a chance. After all, Hollywood has only once yielded a better killer cockroach movie (i.e., Mimic).It's tourist season in a New England fishing town and, just like in Jaws (1975) or Piranha 3D (2010), the people are very concerned about their island community's tourist season revenue. But Sheriff Tarbell's (Robert Lansing; Empire of the Ants) recent missing person reports are becoming less than routine when roaches start killing people--after they tired of killing rats, cats and dogs, of course.His old flame who just got back in town, Beth (Lisa Langois), stumbles across a strange research prospectus and, like anyone cast in a cheap horror flick, investigates on her own. Near the town, she finds an old research site. Who's research?Kicked out of MIT for conducting illegal experiments, Dr. Hubbard (Terri Treas) was working on making a roach that would eat other roaches. I liked her from the start. She handles an oozy animal corpse like it's no big deal and uses a live cat as "bait" in a roach trap--doesn't end well for the cat. Just like in Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Dr. Hubbard knows far more than she tells the townspeople. There's always someone who knows but doesn't share the knowledge to save lives...ever since the days of Alien (1979) all the way to Prometheus (2012).What Hubbard calls a Periplaneta hybrid has a "remarkable capacity for adaptation." They become immune to chemical agents over the span of 15 minutes of running time. So evacuate, right? No. Dr. Hubbard has "everything completely under control" and thinks she can do it another way. These roaches are regular size but can bite through heavy duty rubber gloves, make giant slimy cocoons, and with every generation they evolve into more dangerous, chemically resistant, and intelligent roaches than their progenitors. These roaches start working together to eliminate their human pests and will even cut off the electricity to do it (which reminds me of the domestic nightmare rat pest from Of Unknown Origin).All in good fun, these roaches instantaneously delete flesh and body parts on contact and, at one point, a guy sinks into them as if he were sinking in quicksand or, perhaps, a meat grinder. The fun really starts when we learn that they "become" what they eat. We meet a roach-cat hybrid-thing that looks like a skinned cat with antennae and mandibles leaping about and trying to kill people (reminiscent of The Thing). And a guy goes through an elaborately gross transformation and is turned into a grotesquely gored up, skinless, roach-human zombie hybrid which, with a strong but much less poetic nod to The Fly (1986), is killed by a shotgun to the head at point blank by a loved one. The "queen" roach is a ridiculously macabre masterpiece of combined human corpses, some mandibles, and I don't even know what else.I hope that last paragraph sold you. It sure would have worked on me. If you enjoy gore then you'd be stupid to skip this delicious flick.IF YOU LIKED THIS WATCH: Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Of Unknown Origin (1983), Gnaw: Food of the Gods II (1989), Slugs (1989), Piranha 3D (2010), The Thing (2011).SCIENTIFIC SIDEBAR: A few pieces of nonsense to dismiss. 1) This movie features many unrelated genera (and, by extension, species) of cockroach--Periplaneta (Blattidae), Gromphadorrhina, Blaberus (Blaberidae). 2) The town's entomologist diagnoses oothecae (roach egg cases) as roach droppings even though the producers used real handfuls of oothecae as props. 3) Roaches do not have queens. 4) If a roach eats a cat and then lays eggs, I am almost certain that it will take longer than overnight before a mandibled, skinless, roach-cat hybrid-thing attacks you.

Tame, by anyone's standards, The Nest was exactly what I expected so I wasn't disappointed. It's fifth rate but I loved it. Really, killer cockroaches, how can you go wrong? And the fact that they later "made" something of themselves is priceless. I know it's riddled with clichés throughout but in this type of film you count on that. The dialog is corny, the story filled with great lapses in logic, the solution strictly rudimentary, the acting barely adequate (although Robert Lansing, the only BIG name star slumming in this feature, had one moment that was rather unexpected in its authenticity), plus a pervasion low budget feel that is inescapable (there's supposed to be an entire town filled with people but you never see it or the people, just parts and a few...diehards). Some not so shocking shocks and an incredible performance by Terri Treas as the mad scientist (she easily stole the movie from the bugs), makes this one a definite keeper!People with high expectations are out of luck.

With a cover like that and Roger Corman's name on it, where was the nudity?! Overall all it was an okay horror film that had clips from Humanoids from the Deep edited in. And one hell of a monster at the end.

A great, fun B horror film. However the lighting quality on this film at times was distracting, it was too dark to where the action or scenes with the roaches couldn't be fully viewed. The audio was okay, not great and the picture has a slight tint to it. I still enjoyed this film though.

The 80's had many horror movies and this is one of the best. Decent acting, great (and gross) special effects and well a really great monsters. If bugs give you the creeps then this is the movie for you. I have started collecting 80's horror and this was one of the 1st to make my list.

great old school bug filled horror movie. must have!

Great little 80s monster movie with plenty of schlock. The cast are all great, not least of all Lisa Langlois who is an absolute angel and at her sexiest in this flick. Check out her arse as she enters the cave!The Blu-ray itself is fantastic: Picture quality's great and so is the audio. There aren't many extras, but who the hell needs them?! I often find they detract from the movie by divulging far too much info that you didn't need to know.Buy this now! You WILL NOT be disappointed. Lisa Langlois is a babe!

excellent

Great 80s horror film fantastic picture and sound great improvement on vhs copy I have brilliant gory creature feature English 5.1 soundtrack

Después de la mitad de los subtítulos de la película son completamente fuera de sincronización, por desgracia, mala calidad del producto.