DVD Review: Bug

Title: Bug

Genre: Thriller

Certification in Singapore: M18 (probably due to nudity)

I love to watch horror movies. With a title like Bug, I was expecting a horror movie about bugs. They probably have some scary giant bugs in this movie. Good or bad movie, I don't care. I just want to see some scary bugs. Boy, I was wrong again.

Plot - The movie is centred around 2 characters, Agnes White and Peter Evans played by Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon. Agnes was a lonely waitress with a tragic past. Her son was abducted and she's escaping from her husband, an ex-convict (played by Harry Connick Jr). Agnes stayed in a rundown motel and one day her good friend R.C (played by lovely Lynn Collins)brought a newly acquainted male friend, Peter, to her place. Peter did not have a place to stay so Agnes allowed him to stay at her place. They later fell in love with each other. However, Peter had some dark secrets which Agnes would soon uncover. The dark secrets involved some government conspiracy and bugs infestation.

My viewing thoughts - Even though the movie sounded like a horror show especially when bugs are involved, I would describ it as thriller and it definitely wasn't scary in my opinion. You can't call it Science Fiction either. There's no scary bugs in this movie. I was pretty disappointed. Most of the scenes took place inside the motel room (probably above 80%). This is a pretty low budget film it seems. We don't get to see Agnes' son during her flashback. They show a candy machine to show that her son had disappeared. We also don't see a Pizza Delivery guy in the movie. We only hear his voice. Even IMDB shows 7 cast members only.

Trivia - The movie was actually based on a stage play and Michael Shannon reprises the stage role he was in previously. The movie was directed by William Friedkin who gave us The Exorcist more than 20 years ago.

DVD - The Code 3 DVD contains some special features. There's an interview with the director. There's also a short making-of featurette. Not a lot of features but I don't expect to see much special features anyway. Printed on the DVD cover is written "One of the most disturbing horror movies imaginable". Yea, right! You need to use your own imaginations, man. Cause it's not found in this movie.

The above picture shows the DVD menu. The bright light at the top right is just my camera flash, not some cool animations.

Crazy Credit - There's a short scene in between the credit roll. I find it pointless for the filmmaker to include it in. It didn't seem there would be a sequel. The few seconds short scene didn't suggest anything, maybe they have spare film left?

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