Such a frustrating disappointment

hyped garbage

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

When i was a little girl, my sister had rented this as a New Release. he and her friends had gotten so spooked, they decided to spend the night upstairs in my room rather than going downstairs to hers. For lack of something better to do, I had watched it with them. There are some truly surprising moments and o totally enjoyed it. Watched it a few times over the next few years. Haven't been able to find in anywhere, same with "Popcorn" but am going to keep looking.

Being agoraphobic can take a toll on you. For writer, Lauren Cochran(Robin Groves), life in the big city isn't a walk in the park. She's afraid to anywhere. So when she sees her shrink, she rents a mansion in the country. There, she can do her work. However, strange occurrences start to unwind while she's staying there. When she opened the window and stepped out, she is stuck and afraid to move. Her shrink comes by to help, but he's tragically killed trying to help her. More to wonder what has went on in the mansion. It turns out that the mansion has been used as a brothel. And the colonel(John Carradine), has seen his granddaughter living there which has given him a stroke. Two of the locals, a handyman, and the town drunk were responsible for the murders of the prostitutes and other soldiers in the brothel. This movie was a bit of a cross between "The Shining", "The Boogeyman", "The Sentinel", and "The Devonsville Terror". There's plenty of supernatural aura, acts of vengeance and redemption. I liked it very much. Plenty to say. 2.5 out of 5 stars.

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?

Lauren Cochran (Robin Groves) is a writer who lives in New York City and lately has been suffering from anxiety attacks, which her Doctor, Webb (Patrick Farrelly) put down to a condition called agoraphobia, which is a fear of leaving the house. Lauren decides to escape Manhattan and head to a small town called Dover Falls to finish her current novel. Her friend Mark Felton (Christopher Loomis) drives her to Dover Falls. They stop by the side of the road, take a break and stretch their legs. Lauren comes across an unusual large octagonal house that she feels she knows. It's exactly the same house she wrote about in one of her previous books entitled 'The Nesting'. And that the cover illustration on the book that she described for the artist to draw is precisely the same as this house she is looking at now, even though she has never been there before. She immediately decides to rent the property. She makes arrangements with the house's owner, a Colonel Lebrun (John Carradine) and his grandson Daniel Griffith (Micheal David Lally) and moves in straight away. That night Lauren has a dream about the house, or was it a hallucination or possibly even ghosts? While visiting, Dr. Webb has an 'accident' and is killed. The local handyman Frank Beasley (Bill Rowley) is mysteriously drowned after trying to attack Lauren. More strange things happen, record players start on their own, words are mysteriously typed onto her work and Lauren continues to see strange people who seem able to just appear and disappear at will. She decides to investigate the house's history, and talks with a local farmer called Abner Welles (David Tabor) who becomes violent towards her when questioned about the house. Lauren becomes more and more unsure if what she has experienced is real, hallucinatory or if indeed there are ghosts inhabiting the house. Co-written and directed by Armand Weston I thought this was a decent enough haunted house horror film. The script by Weston and Daria Price takes quite a long time to establish the situation and is fairly slow going at times. But I have to say it kept me pretty interested and watching right through to the end. One thing that disappointed me was the lacklustre ending, after all the build-up I was hoping for something a little more substantial than what was offered, it just ends up being a bit of a let down and rather pedestrian. Robin Groves was good in the leading role, but I thought Micheal David Lally was awful. There's not much gore in it, just a scythe whacked into someones face, someone is impaled and some gunshot wounds at the end. There's a bit of nudity, but not much. The film looks OK and has a decent atmosphere to it, and the octagonal house is both unusual and cool, I don't think I've ever seen another house like it. If you don't mind a horror film with a slightly slow pace then you could do a lot worse than this, but then I suppose you could probably do a lot better as well. Worth watching, if you can find a cheap copy or catch it on T.V. for free.