I had heard this film was from the director of The Exorcist and expected good things. How wrong I was! The film is boring. It fails to build any atmosphere, the story is far from scary and jumps around a bit. It left me with the feeling that pieces of flim had been missed. Absolutely utter Rubbish. If I could give it less than 1 star I would. Don't bother watching it your not missing anything. Thank god I rented it!!!!!

Complete rubbish, I only put a comment on here to tell people not to buy this crap!

It is the most boring, pathetic film I think I have ever seen!

I have seen thousonds of films and this is the worse.

I brought this film on Blu ray but that cannot save it. It is
boring, slow, boring, tedious......What else is there to say.
How Friedkin could come up with such a low class film after the Exorcist beats me.
Ashley Judd, was, and still is, a good actress but how, or why, she would want to lend her name to such rubbish as this has not done her credit as an actress an ounce of good.
The film centers around "Rednecks" but it is just a pile of trailer trash.
Save your money. This is so bad that it will soon be a late night showing on the Horror channel, even then, don't wait up.

Set in a rundown Motel, Agnes a alcoholic is introduced to Peter a mysterious drifter. Agnes tries to get her life back on track after a relationship begins to develop between them.
Peter claims that the US military is conducting experiments on him which involve implanting bugs into his body. Agnes soon begins to believe him thus setting the relationship to spiral out of control.
Well acted and directed by the legendary director William Friedkin. I was expecting some sort of twist towards the end. On the whole i felt that the story line was very average in content and didn't seem to flourish, but i did enjoy it. This did not get a cinematic release in the uk and went straight to dvd.

since breaking up with her violent ex, Agnes has lived a solitary existence, then she meets Peter, a stupid but sweet guy. However after one night together, it becomes apparent that Peter is not all he seems - he quickly becomes paranoid about the bugs he claims to find in Agnes's house, and reveals he was the subject of mysterious military tests which have left him permanently on the run. Agnes believes Peter and soon becomes as paranoid of the bugs in the house as he is, and paranoia turns to insanity as they devise a way to get rid of the bugs.

Bug is a film of 2 halves, for the first 30 minutes or so, it simply appears to be a story about stupid rednecks, but as soon as the bugs come into the film, the tension goes up and up, the action begins and the film becomes genuinely intrigueing. At first it seems that the bugs are not real and are just a product of Peter and Agnes's paranoia, but there are some genuine hints they are real and part of a government conspiracy, and the audience is left to wonder if they really do exist or not. Almost all the film is set in Agnes's tiny house, however this suits the film well, and adds to the clastrophobia and tension. The final scene when Peter and Agnes finally decide what they must do with the bugs really is something to behold, and is an explosive climax to the tension that has been building up throughout the film.

Lionsgate released this film on DVD at the same time as Catacombs and The Nun, however whilst those 2 films are tedious and boring, Bug is well worth viewing. It's no masterpiece, but it's an original and interesting film that's worth checking out.

really low budget. The story line is quite good, its just poorly made and the ending is rubbish and explains absolutely nothing.

Really you shouldn't bother watching this.

Freidkin's adaptation of Tracy Letts' play of the same title is essential viewing. Dark, twisted, and even blackly funny, Bug seems to be the work of a twentysomerthing wunderkind-not that of an ageing director in his early seventies.
After a silent blue helicopter shot; beautiful, elegant, and touching, glides onto Agnes standing outside her flea pit motel, the action is then confined to her room with the one exception of showing the dive bar where she works. Freidkin then proceeds to shoot the interior in stunning 35mm, finding dignity amongst her squalor.
Judd plays Agnes as a broken woman rebuilding her life; tough but still unsure, sensitive and yet proud of the small steps she has made away from the violence of her ex-husband, Jerry.
Into this sanctury steps Peter, a polite gulf veteran, strange, odd even, but positively a saint in Agnes' eyes compared to the low-life scum she no encounters through her job.
It is this moment which spirals the film into a chaotic freefall as Peter's supreme paranoia consumes himself and Agnes' personality. To the couple their logic is linear, bred from a conceivable reality which leads them to barricade themselves in their foil lined room. Away from the bugs.
Gradually, Peter reveals himself to be deeply disturbed. He is fleeing an imaginary government conspiracy, an experiment, of which he and Timothy McVeigh-The Oklahoma Bomber, are the only defence. Peter believes he has been implanted with bugs that control his thoughts and actions.
Peter manipulates Agnes by his cold attention to detail and hyper-emotional outbursts. She has no chance against his tyrannical and tender rants. Her one slim grasp at what is left of her sanity is cruely swept away from her by a savage murder. This last obstacle dismantled, Agnes convinces herself in a scene so disturbing that the audience are blown away by the revelation that she is the cause of the bug infestation.
Freidkin elicits performances so extraordinary that both leads should be handed the Oscars immediatley. Of course that will never happen but he obviously identified with the subject matter and perhaps injects some of his nastier, selfish, younger-self into Peter. But it is Judd who really walks awat with the plaudits-the last look on her face before oblivion is something to behold and will scar your soul for a very long time to come.

i bought this film on 'region 1 dvd' mainly because of the director 'william friedkin' who's film 'the exorcist' is probably still the most disturbing film all time.
this film is certainly intense, and much of the acting is top drawer,but......it's about 'peter' ( an apparent wanderer taken in by a lonely and scared woman ) who believes
he is inpregnated with bug, what's more he believes army
doctors have done this to him.
his obsession takes over, so much so 'agnes' also believes.
the film could make you want to start scatching, but the expierience and memory of the plot will fade.
this is in my opinion a film to hire first.