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Best movie of this year hands down!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Blistering performances.

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.

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.

Final project from famed movie producer William Castle is, sadly, a slapdash insect affair. Based on the book "The Hephaestus Plague" by Thomas Page, who also penned the screenplay with help from Castle, the chills start after an earthquake rocks a small community, bringing mutant roaches up from the earth. The bugs are satisfyingly disgusting, causing fire, panic, and one hysterical death on the former "Brady Bunch" set at Paramount. Aficionados of gross-out cinema will up the rating a notch, while purveyors of camp will enjoy the wooden performances by Bradford Dillman as a local professor and Joanna Miles as his wife. Lots of close-ups of scaly legs and bug guts, yet the production values are disappointingly cheapjack, a depressing reminder of far better days at the Castle horror factory. *1/2 from ****

BUG is a truly awful film.The "story" is a about a scientist who studies some underground bugs who turn up after an earthquake opens a small fissure in the desert. The scientist studies them and realizes that they're intelligent and can also burn people. A few (and I really mean a "few") people fall victim to these bugs. When a "queen" ends up in the fissure, the bugs start flying, burns the scientist who conveniently ends up in the fissure, which subsequently gets covered up again, leaving no trace of the bugs behind. That's it.It spends a slow 99 minutes to expand on a not so complex story (one man vs big pyro-cockroaches) and then effectively doesn't go anywhere with a climax that kills its only main character and the potentially cool idea of killer incendiary bugs. You basically spend 99 minutes with a single unlikeable character, in a grubby surrounding along with some not too convincing insects, all for nothing. Not scary, not suspenseful, not fascinating in any way, shape or form. Had this been a 30 minutes Twilight Zone episode, it would have been fine but for a feature film, it's painfully flat and dreadful. I can barely describe it as a movie. It's a micro-movie.If you want to see a fantastic "man vs bug" story, check out PHASE IV. Now that's a brilliant movie to be reckon with.