Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

rebeccax5 The movie was based on a book which was far better then this movie. Direction in this film is the fail. When people get attacked by the bugs they just scream and stand there, instead of grabbing bugs off theur body. It just looks phony. I had read the book before seeing the film and it was a classic scary scifi. The movie was too cheap to have careful direction. Same Directer ruined other books to film. Never uderstood why he was picked for some potentially good films.Can't blame actors when director is terrible.

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.

Wuchak Released in 1975, "Bug" stars Bradford Dillman as a professor who becomes fascinated by a fire-starting breed of large cockroaches after they're released from their subterranean habitat via an earthquake. As he descends into madness he descends into hell.The movie starts off good with an earthquake at a church in rural Southern California and the ensuing mystery of the fire-starting roaches, but the second half becomes draggy as it largely consists of the professor going recluse as he studies the roaches and performs an experiment. While I didn't find the roaches particularly scary, they're ugly and depicted in a creepy manner. The most memorable part of the movie occurs near the end when the bugs do something on the wall, which utterly freaks out the professor (and the viewer). The climax is pretty good too, but also unsatisfactory.On the female front, Jamie Smith-Jackson (Alice from 1973's "Go Ask Alice") earns top awards, lookin' great in a pair of jeans, and Patty McCormack (Sylvia) gets second place. Unfortunately, not enough is done with 'em.The "Brady Bunch" reference refers to the fact that the professor's house is the re-painted and re-arranged house-set of that popular early 70s' show. I was expecting Alice to appear in the kitchen at any moment! Needless to say, if you need a 70s' fix "Bug" fills the bill.The film runs 99 minutes and was shot in Riverside, California, and Paramount Studios.GRADE: C+

Chase_Witherspoon Loosely based on the novel "The Hephaestus Plague" about a strain of self igniting cockroach that is unleashed on a rural town following an earthquake. Local professor (Bradford Dillman) must learn more about the bugs in an attempt to stop the path of destruction, but finds himself aiding their evolution into unassailable marauders.Interestingly handled thriller, produced by horror royalty in William Castle focuses on the mental disintegration of the lead character, following the death of his spouse. His obsessive determination to destroy the bugs leads him to the brink of insanity, while the bugs conversely enhance their intelligence through the reinforcement gained in his experiments. Where most of the cast (Gilliland, Vint, Jackson, Miles) fade out after the first half, Fudge and McCormack come into focus in the second half, as they attempt to coax Dillman out of his self imposed isolation.The concept that mankind is the subject of the experiment and ultimately the more vulnerable of the two species, is canvassed abundantly in the second half of the film and while engaging, slows the pace considerably. Overall, I found "Bug" an entertaining tale that improved with each subsequent viewing and an ideal swansong for horror maestro Castle.