Review - Bug
BUG [R]
If there were an award for “Ickiest Performance,” then Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon would win for theirs in this disturbing drama. Audiences expecting the typical mindless gross-out suggested by the film’s marketing will be disappointed, but director William Friedkin, responsible for countless soiled trousers since his The Exorcist in 1973, really amps up the suspense and psychological terror here. Judd (Come Early Morning) plays Agnes, a lonely and highly impressionable woman who is smitten by kindly but deluded drifter Peter, played by Shannon (World Trade Center). Peter convinces Agnes of his belief that the doctors in the Army hospital he escaped from planted egg sacs in him, meant to generate millions of information-gathering insects that can move from person-to-person-to-person. Friedkin establishes a sense of place and isolation early on, priming the dingy Texas rest stop town for all manner of mind-made horror, which he executes with skilled layering. […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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