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Bug (2007)

R02/21/2007Drama, Horror, Thriller1h 38m
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Paranoia is contagious

Overview

In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Ashley Judd

    Agnes White

  2. Cast 1

    Michael Shannon

    Peter Evans

  3. Cast 1

    Harry Connick Jr.

    Jerry Goss

  4. Cast 1

    Lynn Collins

    R. C.

  5. Cast 1

    Brían F. O'Byrne

    Dr. Sweet

  6. Neil Bergeron

    Man in Grocery Store

  7. Cast 1

    Bob Neill

    Pizza Harris (voice)

Possession has been a lifelong preoccupation for William Friedkin. He’s addressed it head-on as both fiction and fact, but Bug sees him take a more oblique route. Here’s the story of a man so thoroughly possessed by paranoia that his delusions are contagious. One demon leaves one body to enter another, but an obsession is Legion. Every Michael Shannon performance is arguably his best, but this is a film tailor-made for his fascinating idiosyncrasies. Aphid and spastic, his body language stops short of actually turning into a freaking insect. Ashley Judd, however, has a more challenging r...