Bug (Friedkin, 2006): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.15pm
This film is part of the Discomfort Movies season and also screens on July 25th.
Chicago Reader review:
Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts adapted his play into this
fearsome horror movie, directed with single-minded claustrophobia by
William Friedkin (The Exorcist). Michael Shannon, reprising his
role from the original 1996 production, is all crawling skin as a man
convinced that unknown government powers have infested him with aphids;
Ashley Judd is persuasively unstrung as the woman who buys into his
delusions to escape her own problems. Friedkin embraces the story’s
staginess and sense of implosion as the pair retreat into paranoid
madness, a journey that includes several electrifying scares and
ultimately plays out in blue light against tinfoil-covered walls. The
shocker ending has a rather rhetorical quality, but you have to admire
Letts for obeying his own sick logic.
J R Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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