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Bug

R Released May 25, 2007 1h 42m Drama Mystery & Thriller Horror List
61% Tomatometer 132 Reviews 34% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings
At a rundown desert motel, Agnes (Ashley Judd) begins a tentative relationship with a newcomer named Peter (Michael Shannon). He has a strange charisma, one that offers fearful and unstable Agnes a flicker of hope. When Peter reveals that the military deliberately infected him with a bug and that he has tiny insects crawling under his skin, paranoia begins to envelop the desperate pair. Read More Read Less
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Disappointing resolution aside, Bug uses its claustrophobic setting and cinéma vérité camerawork to tense, impressive effect.

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David Fear Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Joshua Land Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel Rated: 2/5 May 13, 2009 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Despite an unevenness to the story and the fact that it lends more to a psychological drama than horror, there is an overall darkness to BUG that shouldn't be missed. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore Relationships, even if they feel like deep love, are sometimes entirely geared towards the annihilation of one singular self rather than the elevation of two whole selves. Rated: 5/5 May 3, 2019 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed An intelligent and complex peek in to the darkness of mental illness and its tendency to destroy and explode violently. Oct 10, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jerry H Starts out slow but gets intense Michael Shannon and Ashley Judds acting just blew me away actually made me nervous towards the end kind of comical but in a sad way mental illness isn't funny but Michael Shannon absolutely kills it. And then some. 👍 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/05/24 Full Review Emilliano S Great performance from both Michael Shannon & Ashley Judd but the story plot somehow has been 'bugged'. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/23/23 Full Review Georgan G This film was about how mental illness can be infectious. At least in the sense that fear & loneliness can lead to illogical thoughts & actions. Or who knows, maybe it was all a government plot. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/20/23 Full Review David H don't waste your time, it's an extremely bad film Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/31/22 Full Review Roy T Stumbled upon this movie while channel surfing. Definitely a twilight zone sort of feel about it. Sad part is how many parallels to delusions and psychotic Q'anon narratives there were to what we see in the real world today. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/22 Full Review robert p I just finished watching this movie about two mental people together feeding off each others fears until they finally broke down and ended their lives. I know this was the producer who did The Exorcist, but that movie was far more scary than this film with blood and guts everywhere, thus my rating of 2 and 1/2 stars!! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis At a rundown desert motel, Agnes (Ashley Judd) begins a tentative relationship with a newcomer named Peter (Michael Shannon). He has a strange charisma, one that offers fearful and unstable Agnes a flicker of hope. When Peter reveals that the military deliberately infected him with a bug and that he has tiny insects crawling under his skin, paranoia begins to envelop the desperate pair.
Director
William Friedkin
Producer
Holly Wiersma, Kimberly C. Anderson, Malcolm Petal, Gary Huckabay, Michael Burns, Andreas Schardt
Screenwriter
Tracy Letts
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
LIFT Productions, DMK Mediafilms
Rating
R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Sexuality|Some Strong Violence)
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 25, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.0M
Runtime
1h 42m
Sound Mix
Dolby, Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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