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BUG (1975)

Started by The Burgomaster, November 05, 2004, 06:47:51 AM

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The Burgomaster

Here's a fun B-movie DVD that I picked up for under $10.  I saw this movie only once before when I was a kid, but it's still fun to watch all these years later.

An earthquake in a small desert town unleashes cockroach/beetle type insects that eat ashes and can start fires by emitting small heat charges.  Bradford Dillman plays a scientist who studies and cross-breeds the insects.  He becomes obsessed with the little devils, and eventually they begin crawling on the walls of his house and arranging their bodies into patterns that spell words.  Some of the special effects and stunts involving people who are on fire are pretty silly, but a few parts of the movie are downright creepy.  A good choice for a rainy Saturday afternoon.



Post Edited (11-05-04 05:48)
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

trekgeezer

I laughed my ass off the first time I saw the 'incendiary  cock roaches from hell'. One of the wackier bug movie ideas.




And you thought Trek isn't cool.

Scott

Wow, sounds like my kind of film. I'll have to investigate. Bug movies from the 70's are something special.


Chopper

i so dig Bug Burgomaster, right on! and i don't know if it's me but the close-ups of the bugs with the wierd sound effects sure seem pretty drug influenced.

Dave Munger

I saw part of this before, and thought it seemed very "Hellstrom Chronicles" inspired. There is a kind of beetle that can squrirt out chemicals that react and release enough heat to give you a blister, I think they're called Bombadier Bettles. Sometimes the goofiest parts of movies seem to be the ones where they try to use things they learned researching the subject.

Yaddo 42

I'm surprised how few people have seen this one, since it used to be a basic cable and syndication staple in the 80s and 90s.

I liked how the bugs' armor was so tough that it took huge concentrations of force directed into a very small area to kill one since they could withstand large amounts of force and pressure, with explosive decompression (IIRC) as the result when Dillman pierce that one. In slo-mo too, but it has been years since I saw it.

Cool "you can't beat or tame Mother Nature" ending without any attempt at putting a positive spin or "there's still a ray of hope" gloss onto it. Certainly better than any killer bee film, and probably most killer ants films except maybe "Phase IV", I've ever seen.