GL84 Trying to clean up the town, a small island preparing for the upcoming summer tourist season finds the area overrun by the release of a mutated swarm of cockroaches from a nearby experiment facility and must try to stop the deadly creatures.This here was quite a decent enough creature feature. One of the film's better elements is the rather fun time this one has in the beginning where it sets up their impact on the island, bringing up the insects' involvement quite well. The first few animal attacks are a great start, being incredibly creepy scenes showing their eye- view scurrying across the underbrush after the critters as well as the accompanying buzzing sounds that go along with them which all makes for quite a nice build-up here before turning it over to the first attacks on the townspeople. From the attack on the lonely worker in the car graveyard to the diner ambush, a chilling sequence at the house where they awake to the bugs crawling all over the house as well as the later double attack in the store-owner's home. Other great scenes come from the great fun of the bugs appearing around town as there's truly fun and enjoyable scenes here in their attack on the diner which is great with the roaches appearing all over the place and putting the whole area to use in order to stop them, the rather tense and thrilling encounter at the mayor's house which not only features the chilling attempts to keep them out along with the inclusion of the giant mutated bug creature that's quite fun as well as the big battle in the lighthouse at the house which all has plenty of great action scenes with the chilling bugs. There's also some chilling scenes in the cave finale where the bright light and dark rocky caves has a rather chilling atmosphere that makes it work nicely with the suspenseful encounters trying to get out while also featuring the last bits of the cheesy creature gore which occurs here. Along with the film's rather breezy pace and rather 80s-era special effects work in the gore and creature effects, these here make this one enjoyable enough for the time- period. There's a few minor flaws here, which mostly stems from the fact that there's just so many tried-and-true clichés featured here that there's little originality to what's happening here, which makes this a pretty shock-less effort with this running through everything so readily and being easy-to-guess at what's going to occur that there's no real surprise in how it all plays out. Not only that, but it also plays into the film's human protagonists where it features the slimy official who won't do anything despite overwhelming evidence that something's not right, the sketchy doctor with their own personal agenda and the expected love triangle that's none too interesting getting played out like normal here and really helps to sell the clichés present. As well, there's also some potentially disturbing and hard-to-watch scenes here where they really have animals in distress on-screen to showcase some of the attack scenes with the cockroaches and it's not explicit in their actions but wholly uncomfortable seeing such moments however brief they are, even though there really is nothing graphic shown to indicate that. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot wrong here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, violence against animals and Language.

callanvass The lead character Richard (Franc Luz) is the sheriff, and he seems to be a bit of a pimp. He's got his own mini love triangle going with two women (Lisa Langlois & Nacy Morgan) Langlois comes back after a few years of being away. It turns out she picked the wrong time to head home. A bunch of meat eating cockroaches are invading the city. I was hoping to get a mildly entertaining film out of this, and that's exactly what I got. Its akin back to the 50's with all of the cheese. There are some truly odd things in this movie. Dr. Hubbard (Terri Treas) has a weird obsession with insects, especially cockroaches. She willingly subjects a Cat to her sadistic experiments, and seems to enjoy watching the cockroaches kill the cat. She also willingly sticks her hand in the box of killer roaches, and says "They are biting my hand" She keeps it inside the box, and is obviously enjoying it, because the look on her face screams pleasure. It seriously gave me the creeps. Her character does some inexplicable things. As I mentioned previously, this is seriously akin to the 50's. Even the sheriff (plastic acting and all by Franc Luz) is eerily reminiscent of one of the lead characters you'd see in a killer insect film back in those days. Lisa Langlois is OK as the love interest, but nothing more. Robert Lansing needed a quick paycheck, I'm assuming. The gore delivers in a solid way. We get gory cockroach bites, a horse is skinned, and a cat is skinned. The deaths of animals hit a nerve with me a little bit. I'm very touchy when it comes to the death of animals. We also get a severed hand, and one of the goriest bug transformation scenes you'll ever see. I won't spoil it, but it's messy. We also get a bizarre giant cockroach, filled with human faces at the end. Got a big appetite? You'll be full, don't worry. Final Thoughts: It's cheesy fun. Accept it for what it is, and I'm sure you'll have a decent night of entertainment. Nothing I'll ever see again, but I liked it for what it was 5.6/10

HumanoidOfFlesh The quiet town of North Port is being overrun by cockroaches!Sheriff Tarbell(Franc Luz)believes that genetic experiments being conducted by the INTEC corporation are the cause.Confronted with the potential disaster,Mayor Johnson(Robert Lansing)calls for help.When Dr.Hubbard(Terri Treas)arrives,she quickly realizes that an innocent experiment has gone terribly wrong.Ordinary roaches are turning into creatures with a taste for blood.Worse,the roaches are genetically mutating...literally becoming whatever they eat."The Nest" perfectly blends grisly gore with humour.The movie has its flaws and it's slightly predictable,but I enjoyed it.The acting is decent and the direction is well-handled.The gore is pretty strong and the special effects are excellent.So if you're a fan of 80's horror give it a look.Killer cockroaches chewing people up and lots of gore,what more can you ask?

brandonsites1981 A small town is plagued by flesh eating roaches that are the result of a scientific experiment gone awry. To make matters worse they are transforming into whatever they consume. Pre-dating Mimic by a decade, this intense, tight and extremely frightening horror film features excellent make-up effects, a wonderfully demented performance by Terri Treas, and an intelligent, well crafted script.Rated R; Extreme Graphic Violence and Profanity.