Bug
Bug (2006)
My Rating - 4/5
Way back before this movie came out Lionsgate was at a convention passing out free promotional items and posters. Shane and I grabbed a Bug poster as well as most of the other free crap. At some point we ended up puting it on our ceiling as a filler with intent to watch it and take it down if we didn’t like the movie (which reminds me, I need to take down that Infection poster that has been up there 2 years after seeing and hating the movie). So the movie has been out for a while now, we put off watching it due to really bad feedback (not that I normally care). So the other night I saw it was On-Demand and gave it a shot.
Ashley Judd is white trash living in a motel/efficiency apartment. She is lonley and drinks a lot. The phone keeps ringing, nobody is on the other end. She goes out to the bar one night with her friend they end up back at her place with a guy they just picked up at the bar. Her friend leaves in a hurry and left the guy behind. They just met, he is a little odd but she lets him stay the night anyway, sleeping in seperate beds. The next morning the guy is gone and her murdering/abusive ex-husband who was just released from jail was there. He beats her up a little, the odd guy returns with food, the ex leaves. The two have a conversation over breakfast. We learn she had a 6 year old son who she lost(or was kidnapped) from a grocery store 10 years prior. By this point we already know the guy is paranoid and thinks everything is a conspiracy. Over their rather depressing conversation they decide to get it on. They fuck. She tells him she like having a man around and wants him to live with her. They are in bed, he gets bit by a bug. She doesn’t see them. He says they are all over. They have a discussion about him getting bug killer the next day, she says she will call an exterminator. That sets him off, he is worried that someone will come in and see him. She accuses him of not being honest with her and being a con, he won’t tell her why he is so paranoid, they get mad at each other and he leaves, she cries hysterically in the bathroom. He comes back and through the bathroom door explains that he was in the military and the government used experimental drugs on him and there were side effects, that he escaped and went AWOL. The government was looking for him that was why the exterminater could not come. From that point on they lock themselves in this efficiency with the occasional visit from the friend or ex-husband. They have fly paper all over the place they both have rashes and scratches all over their body, scratching themselves like meth adicts. There are no bugs, this guy is crazy and he has brought the crazy out in her too. It becomes evident that she too was crazy from the begining, the phone calls were all in her head, her waiting for the call from her son that never happened. This guy just pushed her over the edge.
I love this movie and I almost want to give it a higher rating but it isn’t quite epic enough. I want to watch it again to see the subtile things that would now be obvious now that I know the outcome.
