The Nest (1988 film)

The Nest
The original poster from the movie.
Directed by	Terence H. Winkless
Written by	Robert King
Produced by	Julie Corman
Starring	Robert Lansing Lisa Langlois Franc Luz Terri Treas Diana Bellamy
Cinematography	Ricardo Jacques Gale
Edited by	Stephen Mark Jim Stewart (as James Austin Stewart)
Music by	Rick Conrad
Production company	Concorde Pictures
Distributed by	MGM
Release date	January 1988
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Nest is a creature feature horror film, based on the novel by Eli Cantor (under the pseudonym of Gregory A Douglas), from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures and producer Julie Corman. The tagline is "Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now." Flesh-eating roaches terrorize a peaceful island community presented as a New England fishing village. However, the film was created on location at Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

Plot summary

The sheriff of this small island town called North Port has a roach problem in his house. According to the local exterminator Homer (played by Stephen Davis), it turns out the whole town is about to have a big roach problem. Pets, and then people, begin to disappear.

Although Sheriff Richard Tarbell (played by Frank Luz) is dating Lillian, the owner of the local eatery, his high school sweetheart Elizabeth Johnson returns to the island after a four-year absence and their romance blooms again. Elizabeth (played by Lisa Langlois) happens to be the daughter of the town's mayor, Elias Johnson (played by Robert Lansing), who is in cahoots with an evil corporation called INTEC that has been secretly breeding mutant roaches that are immune to normal insect repellants. They also seem to have the ability to assume the form of anything they kill, leading to some animal/roach hybrids and even a roach/human combo.

External links

• The Nest at IMDb