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

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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