The Nest starts off as your usual run-of-the-mill 80s horror movie, but by the end it goes zero to bat-shit crazy REAL quick.
On a remote island in Nantucket, several people have gone missing, mysteriously. The mayor and a rather insane scientist are the only ones that know what’s going on and why. However, the new sheriff and the mayor’s daughter are starting to put the pieces together. What they find is far more than they bargained for.
There isn’t much here to talk about, in all honesty. So why not talk about all the things wrong or odd about this movie. Let’s start with the poster. Two major issues I have with it are firstly, the fact that there is never a moment when a woman in sexy lingerie is attacked by the roaches. Her mother is attacked and killed and I guess it’s implied that the daughter would be, but it’s never shown. Secondly, the roaches are never that big. This was kind of a two key reasons why I started watching this one. The promise of sexy ladies and the hope of seeing giant rubber roaches eat people. Neither would come true.
The Nest is a mess of a movie. From the start of the movie the reason the roaches exist is avoided almost completely. There are sub-plots and characters that are introduced that play VERY little into the rest of the film. At one point there is a disgusting musical montage of a woman killing roaches in her diner. By the end of The Nest, as I said earlier, things go so crazy that it can no longer be taken “seriously” as a movie anymore.
I will give it this much, there are two scenes that not only made me shake my head, but question entirely wha the writers and the director were thinking. Oddly, these are the only two scenes in the movie that make The Nest watchable at all. One is the self-sacrifice of the mayor to save his daughter, and the resulting consequences of this death.
The Nest is not a good movie. It’s bad, but not bad enough to be good enough to recommend anyone else see. It takes itself FAR too seriously for the subject matter and the writing. Zero boobs, lots of mom jeans, terrible actors, full of terrible movie cliches, and a rather disgusting premise.
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