
Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, recently released from state prison, Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, rundown motel. Her lesbian co-worker R.C. introduces her to Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things aren't always as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive...... (Full plot summary below)
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Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, recently released from state prison, Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, rundown motel. Her lesbian co-worker R.C. introduces her to Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things aren't always as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive...
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleBug goes exactly where it needs to go -- to a place most filmmakers don't dare go -- and gets there brilliantly. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzBy the second act it has a case of diarrhea of the mouth. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka claustrophobic thriller that slowly and methodically peels away layers of normality until we are trapped in a contagious delusion made frightening literal |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesSteppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts adapted his play into this fearsome horror movie, directed with single-minded claustrophobia by William Friedkin (The Exorcist). |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerFriedkin's best film in at least two decades. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...one of those failed experiments that still merits attention, if for no other reason than to see Judd pull herself away from those awful cop thrillers costarring Morgan Freeman to actually act again. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAs near as I can tell, it's the smallest-scale, lowest-budget, most experimental film Friedkin has ever made, as well as the most thoroughly unpleasant and off-putting -- though it builds a grisly, masochistic fascination as it powers along. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBegins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek. The last 20 minutes are searingly intense: A paranoid personality finds its mate, and they race each other into madness. |
| Arizona RepublicBill MullerAlthough Bug is inconsistent and grows too violent by the end, there's one thing it's not: the same old stuff. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisEngrossingly manic version of Tracy Letts's great stage play. |