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If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if nuclear waste somehow created a potato baby and then gave it a serious attitude problem, The Being might just be the movie for you. This 1983 creature feature is a glorious slice of low-budget nonsense, packed with terrible monster effects, over-the-top acting, and enough questionable filmmaking decisions to keep any so bad it’s good enthusiast grinning from beginning to end.

The monster itself is a spectacular achievement in looking absolutely terrible. It’s an ugly, lumpy mess of creature effects that seems to have been designed by someone who heard about monsters secondhand and decided to wing it. Fortunately, the filmmakers appear to have recognized the problem, because an awful lot of the creature’s screen time takes place in lighting so dark that you can barely tell what you’re looking at. It’s a clever strategy, really: if the audience can’t see the monster, they can’t complain about how ridiculous it looks. Well, they can, but at least they have to work for it.

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That time your fiancé turned into a goop monster and had to kill people to stay ungoopy long enough for you to do it for the first time and then kill him.

I mean, there's just that much to see here. This guy moves into an apartment only to be invited to eat some goop and then turn into goop because the spirit of a Jim Jones guy lives in the goop and splits control over your body. He then threatens you (astral interior(ly), its a thing) to turn you into goop unless you satisfy his bloodlust and kill some bums and hookers. Pretty standard stuff here. Oh wait, everyone else in the apartment building has to do the same thing. Oh, and you've got a pesky 22 year old virgin girlfriend sniffing around/wanting to bang on your super gross mattress (it was gross before you became a goop monster, so....I think that's her fault? No its yours). That's nothing really that weird right?

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A NATO team of the least qualified sea-men (giggle) take the Beatle's submarine down to the depths of the sea and find some icky monsters, hungry starfish and love. Of course they do.

So some might call the Rift a Leviathan and Deep Star Six knockoff, but we see this as much more of an Aliens knockoff, which becomes its fatal flaw. The plot is just so familiar and could take place in space just as easily as it does it under the sea. You've got the expedition into tunnels with an unknown monster patrol ahead. You've got the "military wants the monster for biological warfare" yadda, yadda. You've got the ship breaking down due to sabotage, yadda yadda. It gets tedious just watching Aliens again.

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Bugs, bugs, bugs!!! This movie is chock full o' bugs! Large bugs, small bugs, bugs as big as your head - hell bugs that are MADE of your head. Heads that are made of bugs. I got bugs under my skin and bugs on my brain. Hope you like bugs.

The Nest falls into the "body horror" genre as far from being a body horror film as one can be. This should fall into the "its JAWS but bugs are super cheap to work with" genre. Its just the JAWS plot but with bugs. Yes there is a smidgeon of body horror but its not exactly From Beyond. However, there is a lot of good here.