By Adam Ruhl
At face value The Nest might not seem like much; a more or
less direct-to-video 1988 film that I had never heard of before now. The Nest
falls into that not-so-respected horror sub-genre of “Swarms of something”
attacks small isolated town. Since Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ it’s been tried with
every kind of animal from spiders to snakes to worms. The Nest presents us with
swarms of cockroaches, as made clear by the cover art which features a six-foot-tall
roach attacking a woman in her underwear. The question I found myself asking up
front was why would Scream Factory want to reintroduce such a title to the
world in High-Def? What I found when I sat down and watched the movie was that
they had found a lovely little would-be, could-be cult horror film gem in The
Nest.
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