Wizard-8 Maybe I have seen too many haunted house movies, but I have to admit that "The Nesting" brought very little new to this creaky genre. It's not bad enough to be called terrible, but it is all the same disappointing. Writer/director Armand Weston does manage to build a little mood and atmosphere, and he does occasionally throw in some detail that you wouldn't expect from a low budget movie. But when it comes to jolts and genuine scares, there aren't any, unless you count the scene when a couple of birds suddenly fly into the frame. A big reason for the lack of horror has to be the screenplay, which unfolds one familiar scene after the other, often at a very slow speed. Though there are some parts of the story that are so murky that the movie often seems like a first draft instead of a story that has been looked over carefully several times. (It doesn't help that there are some jarring edits that add to the confusion.) And where are the POLICE during all the deaths that happen in the movie? Throw in some amateurish acting, and in the end you have a really lame enterprise.

HumanoidOfFlesh "The Nesting" is a ghost story about a haunted brothel.It works on a more psychological level and offers a decent plot helped along by some solid acting.A female writer suffering from agoraphobia moves into an eerie old mansion somewhere in the country.Soon she is plagued with erotic nightmares,her phobia is getting worse and people are getting killed through a series of strange 'accidents'.It seems that the house has its own sleazy and murderous past."The Nesting" is a pretty creepy horror film with gory sickle hacking.Robin Groves provides some tasteful and highly welcomed nudity and John Carradine shines in a small role.The final twist is surprising and wonderful.If you are a fan of "The Changeling" or "Ghost Story" you can't miss "The Nesting".8 out of 10.

Coventry Who could ever have predicted that an early 80's haunted house thriller directed by one of America's most infamous porn-horror directors (Armand Weston; sick genius behind "The Defiance of Good" and "The Taking of Christina"), and actually revolving on the grim past of a secluded whorehouse, could be this … boring, low on sleaze and totally lacking excitement and bloody make-up effects? I'm generously rating "The Nesting" four stars out of ten, due to some isolated moments of sheer brilliance and the terrific choice in atmospheric exterior filming locations, but the honest truth is that this film doesn't deserve half of that, because the narrative structure is infuriatingly dull and ineffectively complex. Lauren Cochran, a female horror novelist living in the center of New York suffers from Agoraphobia (fear of crowded places) as well as from sexual repression and writer's block. She moves into a beautiful octagonal old mansion in the countryside, but promptly starts having nightmares and meaningful hallucinations regarding the place's dubious past. She discovers the house used to a brothel but some tragic event occurred there near the end of World War II, and now it seems as if the restless spirits of the prostitutes are using Lauren as a medium to extract their vengeance. Admittedly, the subject matter is hugely derivative and something you've already seen dozens of times before (and better), but hey, that's horror cinema for you and at least the whorehouse setting could have resulted in something slightly more interesting. The script is full of potential, but director Armand Weston makes the terrible mistake of trying to imitate the ominous atmosphere and suggestive mystery of "The Shining", which was released one year earlier and scored big at the box office. Multiple scenes are shamelessly copied from "The Shining", but Weston clearly isn't as talented as Stanley Kubrick and a cheap and anonymous production like "The Nesting" needs more action instead of intellectual tension-building. There are a handful of notably terrific sequences, like Lauren's agoraphobic attack in the streets of London, the death of the sinister handyman in the lake and our heroine getting pursued by a deranged local, but sadly they're just isolated highlights in an overall boring wholesome. Genre veteran John Carradine plays his umpteenth role of creepy old guy hiding dark secrets and Gloria Grahame – in her last big screen role – appears in the flashback scenes as the whorehouse Madame. The gory highlights in "The Nesting" are passable, with the exception from one nifty eye-impalement (which I suspect is stolen from Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond") and one uncomfortably gross moment involving a scythe. That's hardly worth purchasing an obscure and probably overpriced VHS-copy, isn't it?

sol- A rather bland horror film that is as bad as it sounds, it actually surprisingly starts off quite well, with some effective scenes, but in the end it is not all so glamorous. The characters and acting are both poor, the special effects are rather icky, and in the latter half of the film there a number of sequences that seem to drag on and on pointlessly. In particular, the final twenty or so minutes leave a quite a sour taste in the mouth, however there is one reason why the film may be interesting to view, that being the choices of music, which, although not always appropriate, are still curious and intriguing.