Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Wordiezett So much average

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

WisdomsHammer There are plenty of horror movies where the characters don't do what any typical person would do in their situation, but it happens so often with the main character in this movie that it's laughable. John Carradine and Gloria Grahame (her last film) were terrific, but they have very small parts. There were a couple of great death scenes, but they don't make much sense. It was tough for me to make it through this one. Every scene seemed to drag on. It wasn't suspenseful, it was painful. I don't think it was intended to be a B-movie, but it definitely is. If you like them, you may like this.

Mr_Ectoplasma "The Nesting" follows Lauren Cochran, a New York City novelist who begins suffering from crippling agoraphobia. She decides to eliminate the problem by relocating to a remote, rundown mansion upstate for solitude and an opportunity to work on a book; things don't quite go as planned though when it's discovered that the house was a former brothel where multiple prostitutes disappeared fifty years prior.I had never heard of this film and came across a review of it online; I was surprised how under the radar the film is, particularly that in my decades-long existence as a horror fan, I'd never crossed paths with it. It is a strange film—in some ways, it's very sophisticated and thematically interesting, and yet at times it is also terribly awkward, poorly scripted, and borderline tedious. So, what's the attraction here? "The Nesting," in spite of some fundamental problems, establishes an atmospheric glaze over itself that is absolutely flummoxing. The cinematography is surprisingly lush for this type of film, and the location and setting helps bolster the utterly strange vibes of the picture. Some of its best moments hands down are the protagonist's encounters with the ghostly prostitutes; the apparitions appear and disappear from the mise-en-scène as if living characters passing through a room, and their presentation in this way is startling and strangely terrifying. The fact that the majority of the horror scenes here occur in daylight is also another unusual feature of the picture.As I said before, there are some problems with the film, the first being that it seems to toe the line between haunted house film and full-blown psychological horror; there are even moments where it appears to be taking on tenets of a slasher film. This is not to say that a film can't cross-reference genres, but the script here just doesn't manage to do so gracefully. The film is also at times awkwardly edited, which is where some of its budget limitations seem to visibly crop up, and the chemistry between some of the actors is a bit off key. Robin Groves is decent as the lead, although her character is strangely written to begin with. John Carradine shows up as the plutocratic owner of the home, while Gloria Grahame appears in her final screen role as the madame of the bygone brothel.The film's conclusion is quite frankly baffling, and I was surprised to see it end as it did, as the film leads the viewer to believe they will be treated with some sort of conceivable resolution. "The Nesting" ardently resists this, and leaves the viewer with an uncomfortable ambiguity that is atypical of this kind of picture. All in all, I found this film strangely fixating and visually eerie in spite of its hodgepodge script and uneven performances. In the greater scheme, it is a marginal entry in the genre, though I must admit there is something confounding and creepy about it on a base level. Worth a look. 6/10.

Michael_Elliott The Nesting (1981) ** (out of 4) Writer Laura Cochran (Robin Groves) rents an old mansion from Colonel LeBrun (John Carradine) and soon realizes that there are some strange things going on inside it. It turns out that the mansion was used in WWII for prostitution and that many of them were brutally murdered and now their vengeful spirits are there. The 80s will always be remembered by horror fans for the countless slashers but if you look back at the early part of the decade you'll notice countless haunted house movies. This one here certainly isn't in the same league as THE SHINING or THE CHANGELING but for the first minutes it's actually pretty good but sadly it all falls apart. The first portion of the film actually managed to bring up a nice atmosphere, which led to a few creepy moments but these scenes quickly went out the window as the film started to movie into the second half. This is where the film really went off the tracks because they take everything from the house to the outside and we got some pretty stupid scenes and not any good ones. There are two weirdos on the outside bothering the writer and we get separate attack scenes and neither of them are very effective. I'm going to avoid spoiling anything but the second attack gets dragged out to a pretty long sequence, which just ends is a very silly fashion. Another problem with the film is that it runs way too long and simply doesn't have a strong enough of a story to keep the viewer interesting in what's going on. Groves offers up a good performance as the writer who is slowly losing her mind as does Michael David Lally and Christopher Loomis in his small role. Vet Carradine is always fun to watch but it looks like by 1981 people would know better than to rent a house from him. Oscar winner Gloria Grahame (THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL) makes a small appearance here in her final film. Another thing that kept bothering me throughout this film is wondering why the writer simply didn't leave the house. I mean, after countless deaths, attacks on your life and strange happenings, there really wasn't a reason for her to stay yet she just put up with all of this as if it was just a typical day. THE NESTING isn't a bad movie but at the same time it certainly needed a lot of work to be made better.

Lee Eisenberg Typical horror flick: a woman (Robin Groves) goes to an abandoned house to work on a novel, and - bingo! - it turns out to be a haunted house. In this case, it was a brothel during WWII.Now that I'm old enough to think about this, it may or may not be worth noting. "The Nesting" was released (onto video, at least) through Warner Bros. When I was really young, I watched a lot of the old Looney Tunes cartoons - in fact, I still like to watch them whenever possible - and so I quickly familiarized myself with the name "Warner Bros." Well, over the course of my life, I found out that Warner Bros. also released other kinds of movies, among them horror flicks such as "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "The Awakening" and this one (for non-horror, they also released "A Clockwork Orange"). Had I known when I was three and four years old that Warner Bros. released these sorts of movies - particularly "The Shining" - I probably would have asked something like "Why did Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck make that movie where the man makes a scary face?" OK, so that's all flagrant, maybe criminal, digression. And most people would probably never even think about it. It's just that I like to talk about these things. Anyway, it's an OK movie, not anything great, though the house was pretty neat. Also starring John Carradine and Gloria Grahame (in her final role).Still, it's weird to think that from the same source of Sylvester chasing Tweety came a movie about a Devil-possessed girl.