Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Oct 21, 2026 5/5

Ashley Judd delivers a career-best performance in William Friedkin's adaptation of Tracy Letts' controversial stage play.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 27, 2025 2.5/4

It might have taken David Cronenberg, that insect fetishist (Naked Lunch, The Fly), to truly turn this into a freak-out session.

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Joe Lipsett Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network Aug 30, 2024 4/5

William Friedkin's adaptation of Tracy Letts' play features stunning performances by Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, disorienting editing, and a truly tragic, albeit inevitable, ending.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 7, 2019

Despite an unevenness to the story and the fact that it lends more to a psychological drama than horror, there is an overall darkness to BUG that shouldn't be missed.

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C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore May 3, 2019 5/5

Relationships, even if they feel like deep love, are sometimes entirely geared towards the annihilation of one singular self rather than the elevation of two whole selves.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Oct 10, 2017

An intelligent and complex peek in to the darkness of mental illness and its tendency to destroy and explode violently.

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Scott Weinberg TheHorrorShow Aug 28, 2015

This "smaller" experiment turns out to be William Friedkin's best film in over 20 years.

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David Fear Time Out Nov 18, 2011 4/5

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Joshua Land Time Out Nov 17, 2011 4/5

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Jeff Otto ReelzChannel.com Feb 9, 2011 8/10

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

Claustrophobic paranoia provides the squishy center of Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play, Friedkin swims in it

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Brian Holcomb CinemaBlend May 2, 2008 4/5

While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year.

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Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper Mar 6, 2008

Letts' story is ultimately an extreme cautionary tale about how a little bit of passion can make you do magnificently fucked-up things.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Dec 1, 2007 2/4

Before it completely goes off the rails in its final 20 minutes, Bug generally comes off as a slow-moving yet exceedingly well-acted drama...

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Nov 17, 2007 3/5

It starts off like a horror film, or like a modern-day Tennessee Williams piece and then transmutes into ... something very different indeed.

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Glen Ferris Empire Magazine Nov 8, 2007 3/5

The dialogue raises the odd snigger and the final act is perhaps a little too barmy, but a committed cast and an experienced director make this a tense and effectively claustrophobic experience.

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Dragan Antulov Index.hr Sep 28, 2007 5/10

Melodramati%u010Dni, isforsirani i predvidljivi zavr%u0161etak

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Sep 12, 2007 8/10

An exemplary character-driven chamber drama like we don't see much of in America.

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Rob Humanick Projection Booth Jul 3, 2007 B+

A freakishly metaphorical look at the self-destructive implications of paranoia gone awry.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Jun 25, 2007 B

Friedkin's best film in at least two decades.

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