Comments on: Not a horror movie? You could have fooled me. Bug.

By: NeKrow

NeKrow — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:30:50 +0000

Didn’t anyone think at all that she snapped after her kid went missing and everyone in the movie was a split personality of hers? This is what I thought.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:30:24 +0000

I just saw Bug and am wondering of anyone else believed that Peter was, in fact, telling the truth and only looked like he was mental. I mean, how did Dr. Sweet know about Ashey’s son if they hadn’t been watching them? Everything Dr. Sweet did (i.e. smoking crack) and saying Peter was his project (as Peter had said), seemed to be written so viewers would know Sweet was the person Peter had described. This was what creeped me out–not knowing of the government conspiracy theory was true or not. Thought the performances, script and directing were outstanding. Judd was amazing.

By: Marina

Marina — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:14:03 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed this disturbing fall into psychosis but what impressed me most was Judd’s performance.

I haven’t had a chance to revisit this yet but I hope to before the year is out. I’m thinking one of the reasons people aren’t talking about it is that many people didn’t see it. I’m hopeful it will be “rediscovered” in a few years.

And Retroman, you’re recommendation of “Hard Candy” is excellent! That is another seriously under-seen film.

By: Retroman DC

Retroman DC — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:55:43 +0000

hmmm…I’m not sure how I felt about this movie. I saw it in the theater and was expecting more of a traditional horror movie with real bugs under the skin. So I realized in the middle of watching it that the goal of the movie was shifting towards a physcological examination and adjusted my expectations accordingly. So from a character study It was very interesting but had trouble that the woman could so easily be swayed into believing this guys conspiracy theories and she even started cutting herself and thought the bugs were in her as well in such a short time frame?!! maybe if she was already close to being mentally ill herself but she seemed to be a fairly level headed person. So check out this theory of mine…when they had sex they showed the exchange of blood cells and such. I theorize that he actually transmitted a disease to her that was affecting her mentally. the same brain disease he had. so she became more easily acceptable to believing his theories and started to hallucinate herself. I also had problems with this Dr. that suddenly shows up and takes some hits on the weed and then suddenly spouts details of the conspiracy theory. What kind of doctor is this that comes in and starts smoking weed? Is he supposed to be helping them? He seemed more evil as he talked. Perhaps we were seeing him through the character’s eyes. I won’t call this a great horror movie because of some slow pacing and hard to believe moments but still worth seeing. If you like this movie check out Hard Candy! I think that was a much more successful attempt at a horror character driven storyline.

By: JC4President

JC4President — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:41:08 +0000

Last night I watched Bug…. I have to say, I was very entertained. I was not expecting some tour de force of movie direction or some Academy Award winning level of script and acting…. that being said, for a rainy Thursday night… Bug was a great movie. Specifically, the last scene (with the gasoline) was totally awesome. It was just a perfect ending to the lives of the characters. The way that they were totally spiraling out of control into this complete paranoid lunacy. Also… whoever that main male actor was… he was really awesome. He was so convincing on two counts. One being that he played a very good paranoid lunatic and also the way he conveyed his certainty that there were bugs everywhere. I mean, put this movie into a real life context. What if you had a friend who was certain there were bugs everywhere? That would be one insane person, dont you think? And as such, I feel the actor properly conveyed that mania and delusional behavior. All in all, I enjoyed this movie. Thank you for the review. I appreciate it. If not for the review, I would have never taken the time to watch this enjoyable film. I am now going to see if I can find the origonal version of this film, which was written as a play. This would be enjoyable to see on stage.

By: JC4President

JC4President — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:03:12 +0000

This movie is not about Bugs? I was going to see it… but I assumed it was simply about bugs who go into the skin and eat you alive. lol I had no idea all these other elements were in the film. On a different note, I saw a movie called “Cheeky!” this weekend… i would not suggest you see it.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:01:54 +0000

Bug was quite simply a bad movie. I kept waiting for the payoff but it never came. Psychological paranoia is only good to a certain point.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:11:38 +0000

Maybe, but I enjoyed Bug upto a point. I still enjoyed it, but for me the film has a desperation undertone mixed with psychological paranoia that just came across as very chilling. And yes some parts did make me trip.