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    Bug Director: William Friedkin Cast: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brian F. O'Byrne

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/25/2007
    • Original Release: 2006
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 12,432

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Bug: An introduction ; A discussion with William Friedkin; Audio commentary by director William Friedkin; 16x9 widescreen; 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital audio; English and Spanish subtitles

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    Disc #1 -- Bug [Special Edition]
    1. Rustic Motel [5:53]
    2. Little Jumpy [2:59]
    3. After Hours [3:33]
    4. Looking for a Friend [3:35]
    5. Hearing Things [3:08]
    6. Place to Stay [3:24]
    7. Surprise Visit [2:45]
    8. Not Too Happy [3:28]
    9. Just Peter [1:56]
    10. Not Safe [7:10]
    11. Kind of Nice [1:25]
    12. Bed Bugs [5:23]
    13. Life Tests [6:25]
    14. Infested [5:57]
    15. Taking Good Care [4:25]
    16. Vacancy or No Vacancy [5:00]
    17. Millions [4:46]
    18. Best Intentions [4:34]
    19. Being Watched [5:10]
    20. Helping Her [1:02]
    21. Faulty Programming [1:26]
    22. This Isn't Real [3:19]
    23. What Don't You Know? [4:54]
    24. Firing Things Up [9:52]

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    Academy Award-winning Exorcist director William Friedkin scuttles deep into the darkest recesses of the traumatized human psyche with this tale of a lonely bartender haunted by the long-ago disappearance of her young son, and the paranoia that emerges when she enters into a tentative relationship with a deeply disturbed drifter. Adapted from the off-Broadway play by Tracy Letts, Bug centers on Agnes (Ashley Judd), who tends bar alongside pal R.C. (Lynn Collins), and has recently moved into a shoddy roadside motel in hopes of avoiding her menacing and recently paroled ex-husband, Jerry (Harry Connick Jr.). Upon making the acquaintance of subdued former soldier Peter (Michael Shannon, repeating his stage role), a veteran of the first Gulf War, Agnes finally senses that things are looking up. Quietly charming despite his melancholy aura, Peter soon reveals to Agnes that he contracted a "bug" while serving in the Middle East, and that it may have been deliberately administered as part of a secret military medical experiment. Convinced that the microscopic insects are quickly multiplying just under the surface of his skin and that they have now infected Agnes as well, Peter soon descends into a psychotic rage as he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to purge himself of the offending subdermal arthropods. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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    ONCE BITTENby Anonymous

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    January 05, 2008: Like a lot of people I walked into BUG following on the heels of the marketing which sold the film as a horror about... bugs. People trapped in a small space, tin foiled walls, creepy blue lighting, things getting under your skin that should not be there... all wrong (well, almost). Instead BUG is a tight, sparse, threadbare story of people holed up on their own souls being held prisoner by addiction. I sat through three quarters of this film waiting for the monsters to arrive, only to find that I had been watching them from the start. Human monsters, human vices, human horrors - life at the end of pipe. Not the film I signed up for, not the film I was looking for... but, can anything be salvaged from BUG to recommend? Three things... first, the performances are not bad. At times it comes across like a far gritter episode of THE L WORD with flashes of brilliance that really help to sell the idea behind the picture. But, they don't come often, leaving the rest of the film to float along like a block of wood in water. It's dense, often soap opera quality at best and clipped. There are some plot surprises, and if you take the time to piece it all together (and, fair warning, it's not easy when you don't have all the pieces to the puzzle) you will get something out of it. Finally, the direction is not bad. It's tough to take three rooms and somehow make them into film, but Friedkin does it well enough to keep the picture moving. But, in the end, there is very little to BUG worth watching. The ending comes quickly and suddenly and with some surprise, but adds nothing to to what had come before it. Commentary is included with the film and for the blind, this commentary will help, but for the rest of it, Friedkin's habit of telling you exactly what's happening on screen as it's actually happening wastes your time. He does go into some background, does give us some thoughts, but for the majority of the commentary it's too literal to be worth listening to. BUG might have done better to actually have had some bugs in it to help move it along, but as it stands, BUG is a stalled and flawed picture on the state of paranoia and drug use. For the brave only.

    creepy, beyond intense...by Anonymous

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    August 24, 2007: seeing bug for the first time was like a taking a cold shower. You feel uncomfortable, shaky, and you want it to end. To call it beyond intense would be an understatement as one woman meets a vet who can't stop his imagination. Thinking he sees bugs everywhere, he begins to go insane, taking Judd with her. By the end, you'll be completely scared to death. It's so realistic, so frightening, so creepy good. Better than the exorcist, although it's hardly the same plot. The film is not that scary, but the build up of it all puts you in a euphoria of crazyness. Don't watch this one alone. This is THE SCARIEST film of all time. But it doesn't sink in until the very end...