The Nesting (1981)
- Directed by
- Armand Weston
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 54 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An agoraphobic novelist rents a rural mansion. She discovers the house is haunted by prostitutes who were murdered there in the 1940s.
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What happens
The Nesting (later released as Massacre Mansion) is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Armand Weston, and starring Robin Groves, Michael Lally, John Carradine, and Gloria Grahame in her final film role. Its plot follows an agoraphobic novelist who rents a rural mansion that she comes to find is haunted by the prostitute victims of a mass murder that occurred there in the 1940s. Filmed in Irvington, New York at the Armour-Stiner House, The Nesting was given a limited theatrical release in the spring of 1981 before being reissued by William Mishkin Motion Pictures in 1983 under the alternate title Massacre Mansion. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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