Bug ** (1975, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland) – Classic Movie Review 8211

‘They Look Like Rocks…Possess A High Intelligence…Have No Eyes…And Eat Ashes…They Travel In Your Car Exhaust…They Make Fire…They Kill.’ How promising and exciting is that? But maybe try to contain your excitement a little.

Director Jeannot Szwarc and writer-producer William Castle’s 1975 horror movie Bug is an Attack of the Giant Mutant Cockroaches that set fire to everything in their path and merrily eat their way through the unsuspecting men and women, and boys and girls of a western US small town.

Bradford Dillman plays the mad scientist James Parmiter, who is determined to track them down and finds himself leading humanity in a desperate hunt for the largest can of Flit in the world. Someone must have liked this nonsense because director Szwarc was then handed the directing reins for Jaws 2 (1978).

Although it was nominated as Best Horror Film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, Bug is not exactly a good movie but it is watchable for its gungey weirdness and unintentional laughs.

William Castle and Thomas Page’s screenplay is based on Thomas Page’s novel The Hephaestus Plague.

Also in the cast are Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith Jackson, Alan Fudge, Patty McCormack, Jessie Vint, Brenden Dillon, Fred Downs and James Greene.

Phil Cory won an award for Best Special Effects at the Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival.

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