Written by Robert King
Directed by Terence H. Winkless
Starring Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz and Terri Treas
USA, 1988
THE NEST takes place in a small island community where the local sheriff (Franc Luz) begins noticing some strange things. Animals are turning up dead, people are disappearing and there seem to be an awful lot of cockroaches around. It turns out a corporation has been conducting genetic experiments on the insects, with predictably disastrous results.
The roaches are breeding at an alarming rate, eating everything in sight and eventually mutating into increasingly grotesque creatures. Naturally, the people responsible for creating them are less than forthcoming about what's going on, leaving the sheriff and a handful of locals to deal with the problem.
THE NEST was produced by Julie Corman, Roger's wife, and it feels like exactly the sort of movie you'd expect from the Corman factory in the late '80s. It's cheap, it's gross, and it gets the job done.
There's also a subplot involving the sheriff's former girlfriend, who's returned to town after several years away, and her father, the mayor, who's more concerned with protecting the local economy than acknowledging the insect problem. Because apparently no horror movie about a small town facing a deadly threat is complete without a public official making everything worse. JAWS called. It wants its… whatever. You get it.
THE NEST is okay. If you're in the mood to watch a bunch of people get eaten by cockroaches, you could do worse.
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