The Nesting
directed by Armand Weston stars Robin Groves, John Carradine, and Gloria Grahame in her final role. The
Nesting stars Lauren Cochran (Robin Groves), a woman working on a Gothic novel
and not only suffering from writer’s block but agoraphobia as well and seeks
the assistance of a psychiatrist. She decides to leave the city for an old
Victorian era house in the country in an attempt to cure her writers
block. Lauren and her friend Mark (Christopher Loomis) drive out to the country and the car breaks down mid-way. Lauren
decides to walk a bit to stretch her legs and follows a trail that leads her
directly to an abandon Victorian era mansion. She has a strange feeling of déjà
vu that she has seen or been in the house before while working on her book. She
sees someone in the window but no one comes to the door. Lauren and Mark go into the house when
strange occurrences start happening. She
hesitantly decides to leave the house and inquires as to the owners of the
house. She meets the owner and his grandson, Daniel and inquires about renting
the old mansion. But before she leaves,
the owner, the elderly grandfather, suffers a stroke after he first looks at
Lauren. Mark returns to the city leaving Lauren to finish moving in to the old
mansion. Lauren begins to have vivid nightmares. She also starts to believe the mansion is
haunted. Her doctor advises her to leave and go back to the city but she
refuses. She finds an antique typewriter in a closet, which gives her writers
block a fresh start. At night, Lauren hears music playing up in the attic.
Inside the old record player she finds clothing and jewelry she was wearing
during her first vivid nightmare. Ghostly
apparitions start to fly by as she chases after them room by room discovering
mysterious passages and pathways throughout the house slowly unraveling the
dark and shockingly violent history of the mansion. Soon after the ghost start
to physically haunt various characters in the movie intent in harming Lauren,
she is awakened in the middle of that night to sounds in the hall. She follows the sounds which appear to be
vivid ghosts from the past haunting and reaches out for her to show her what
happened to them. The house is clearly haunted and Lauren begins to slowly
loose her mind even further. She asks around town about the house and hears a
story about the mansion operating as a brothel in the 50’s and a gruesome bloody
massacre that occurred there. The Nesting is a lost gem, now newly
transferred to Blu-Ray from the original camera negative by Blue Underground,
is also known as Massacre Mansion and Phobia as this haunted mansion film is
sure to be a classic and haunt also available in its original format in DVD, VHS, and Streaming on Amazon Prime.
