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| Lisa Langlois in THE NEST Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2 |
The same year Roger Corman's former New World Pictures put out the slug infestation Jaws-Clone SLUGS, his new company New Horizons, led by daughter Julie Corman, made a killer cockroach flick titled THE NEST...
Which is almost as effective, and with a higher grade of actors including legendary Robert Lansing as a real estate developer who, a cross between the greedy JAWS mayor and a similar land-developer in another Steven Spielberg thriller, POLTERGEIST, is covering up not an Indian burial ground but some kind of waste that harbors mutant cockroaches doing tons of local damage...
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| The beautiful Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
The kind of ultra-violent havoc taking a steady amount of screentime in the usual body count fashion, and like JAWS we even have a trusted, stalwart sheriff teamed with a bearded, quirky bug expert ala Roy Schieder and Richard Dreyfuss, while our Quint is Lansing's sexy scientist Terri Treas, a kind of Dr. Frankenstein of roaches...
But the true lead is the insanely gorgeous horror genre starlet Lisa Langlois as Lansing's innocent, initially oblivious, learning-while-she-goes daughter: providing the underrated scream queen plenty to investigate and eventually scream about in an exploitation thriller that's both grotesque and worthwhile for fans of midnight movies — and hell, given the effective budget, it even works during prime time.
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| "Working on that film was amongst the worst experiences
of my career" Lisa Langlois |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois in THE NEST with Robert Lansing |
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| Robert Lansing and Terri Treas in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| You do plan on having cockroaches in this review of THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Robert Lansing as Elias Johnson in THE NEST |
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| The late Heidi Helmer gets physical in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois as Elizabeth Johnson in THE NEST |
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| Lisa Langlois on THE L WORD |
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| Lisa Langlois on THE L WORD |
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| Lisa Langlois on THE L WORD |
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