Bug

Posted by Horror Grinder on September 27, 2007

Review by Tony DeFrancisco

I said before that horror movies aren’t scary anymore. If you wanted to see something terrifying, you turn on the news. The last time I saw a scary movie was back when I saw The Shining for the first time two years ago, and since then, I haven’t seen anything scary. I finally saw one of the scariest movies I would ever see in my life. It’s not a traditional horror film, with no actual cold-blooded killer, no zombies, and no little Asian kid that purrs like a cat. It doesn’t rely on its gore, and is what you would classify in the same genre as Requiem for a Dream. It doesn’t scare you right away, and it waits for a damn hour for the scares to actually start coming to you. So you ask, what gives? What kind of a damn horror movie is this? Folks, this is no horror film. If you are expecting something with a killer, look away. But if you were expecting a drama that uses a much serious and much more original tone, look no further than Bug, one of the greatest horror flicks of all time and just happens to be one of the best movies to even show its face this year. Don’t even think about missing Bug, because if you are going to be paying Lions Gate one and only brainchild this year (and if you weren’t smart enough to know what that is, it’s the new Saw movie), you should be paying your twenty bucks to buy this movie, and I NEVER tell you to buy movies, do I? DO I?! (more…)

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