The Nest, also known as The Bewailing, is a 2021 American horror film directed by James Suttles, starring Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy, Maple Suttles, Drez Ryan, Dee Wallace, Blaque Flowers, Anna Lynn Holleman and Penny Munroe.
[1][2] The film received a wide Digital, Cable, and DVD release on July 29, 2021.
[3][4][5] Paul Mount of Starburst rated the film 4 stars out of 5, calling it a "haunting and sometimes flesh-crawling experience enlivened by some pleasing practical visual effects and a sense of ambiguity in relation to the nature and purpose of the parasite creature itself.
"[6] Jonathan W. Hickman of the Newnan Times-Herald rated the film 6 out of 10, calling it "compelling and thoroughly unsettling".
[8] Alain Elliot of Nerdly rated the film 2 stars out of 5, writing that it "falls into the ‘what could have been’ category and never lives up to its promise of a twisted but intriguing body horror.