Steineded How sad is this?

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

morrison-dylan-fan Reading an old issue of UK film mag Empire,I Checked the "archive" pages,and spotted a review for William Castle's final "shock Horror." Previously having only seen his famous House on Haunted Hill,I decided that it was the perfect time to see Castle build his ant (bug) kingdom.The plot:Shaken by being caught in the middle of an earthquake, a town finds itself surrounded by mutant bugs,who can unleash fire that murders animals and people.Thanks to the low air pressure on the Earth's surface most of the bugs die. Wanting to learn more about the bugs, Prof. James Parmiter keeps some of them alive in storage units. Taking them to an isolated location for research, Parmiter begins to find his own mind bugging him.View on the film:Sliding out of Thomas Page's book,the screenplay by Page and producer/cameo actor William Castle slime's between a Disaster Movie and a creepy Sci-Fi Creature Feature. Setting the bed bugs on fire,the writers send the critters flying into a deliciously bonkers atmosphere,where the stupidity folks usually show in this genre is given an extra push by the people of the town getting in situations with the bugs that is all their own fault! Leaving behind some of Castle's famous "shock & awe" antics for the second half,the writers lock James Parmiter in for an unexpectedly eerie,slow-burn Sci-Fi Horror,that takes advantage of the "last man on earth" setting to turn the bugs (who are given sex scenes!) into objects of paranoia,closing in on James ParmiterGrabbing handfuls of the bugs, director Jeannot Szwarc and cinematographer Michel Hugo wrap the film in Charles Fox's nerve- shredding synch score moving in time with the brash primary colours of the bug attacks. Biting into everything (including a poor cat) Szwarc makes everyone be hilariously stupid,with even the most basic safety options (no gloves!) being something that does distract from the unfolding disaster. Stuck in a small room on his own, Bradford Dillman gives an excellent performance as James Parmiter,whose closeness with the bugs Dillman uses to sink Parmiter into a pit of madness,as he becomes a bug for the bugs.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a movie about fire breathing bugs that come of the earth when there is an earth quake in a small American town. Like all horror movies it as an interesting concept. But this one does not have a good script. It is not scary. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. The acting is awful. I do not know what motive of the mean character is. He makes designations and not why he does them. They over did it victims. I need more line and I am running out of things to say. This a bad movie. Bad movie bad movie. Do not waste your time. Do not waste your money. Do not see this movie. This movie is stinky pooh pooh. It is one of the worst horror movie ever.

Woodyanders An earthquake unleashes a lethal mutant strain of large prehistoric cockroaches with the ability to start fires. The nasty little critters run amok in a sleepy small desert town. Flaky entomologist James Parmiter (a marvelously manic performance by Bradford Dillman) becomes obsessed with saving them. Director Jeannot Szwarc maintains a snappy pace throughout and ably creates an intriguing creepy atmosphere in the eerie opening third before pulling out all the stops with a gloriously wild'n'wacky conclusion. The admirably sincere acting from a sturdy cast of familiar faces qualifies as another substantial asset: Alan Fudge as Parmiter's brainy colleague Mark Ross, Joanna Miles as Parmiter's lovely wife Carrie, Jesse Vint as rugged farmer Tom Tucker, Patty McCormack as Carrie's best gal pal Sylvia, and Jamie Smith-Jackson as Tom's fretful sister Norma. Moreover, this film's shockingly harsh violence pushes the PG rating to its utmost limit: a cute little kitty cat gets torched, one of the bugs blows up something messy, and both Miles and McCormack meet hideously brutal incendiary ends. Michael Hugo's polished cinematography and Charles Fox's wonky droning synthesizer score are solid and effective. The last film produced by legendary schlockmeister William Castle, "Bug" overall rates as a hugely enjoyable nature-gone-wrong fright feature.

Candice Boyle (SalamanderGirl) Cockroaches are creepy enough. Cockroaches with incendiary powers are creepier. But cockroaches with arsonist capabilities who can reason and think and mount an organized attack, that's just downright terrifying. The special effects weren't all that special, yet somehow this movie always frightened me. I remember rumors that somewhere they had used real foot-long roaches, but I don't know the validity in that. Still, this is not just another monster bug movie, like all those killer bees, killer ants and killer spider movies that dominated the '70's. Based on a Thomas Page novel called The Hephaestus Plague, Bug centered on a scientist played by Bradford Dillman, studying subterranean roaches released from an earthquake. The scene that always stuck with me; bugs on the wall, spelling Parmiter, the scientist's name. So if you're looking for explosions and action, or if you're looking for blood and gore, you might want to keep looking. But if you're in the mood for something original and a little creepy, then you might want to check this out.