“bed bugs,” the movie
By nobugsonme on Jul 13, 2007 in art, bed bugs, bedbugs
This isn’t what you’re expecting. It’s a new, 17-minute horror short written and directed by Sean Carley. Warning, it’s kind of gross–it is a horror movie after all. But it’s not gross or scary in a Cimex Lectularius kind of way. It’s relevant, but I haven’t quite figured out how.
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Bugalina | Jul 13, 2007 | Reply
Nobugs…This movie is pretty scary…I do not recommend that anyone going thru an active infestation watch it. I think I am going to have bad dreams tonite !!
nobugsonme | Jul 14, 2007 | Reply
Bugalina, I had no trouble distancing myself because they weren’t actually bed bugs. But on many other levels I could relate… it is scary.
James Buggles | Jul 14, 2007 | Reply
I thought it was a bed bug? A 3 foot long mutant bed bug? Anyway, for a better film that explores similar themes rent Donnie Darko, which features a giant bunny rather than a giant bed bug.
Bugalina | Jul 14, 2007 | Reply
I think it was a dust mite…but the bloody exaggerataed bites on her body was more in keeping with bed bugs….when she looked at her bed…knowing the monster bug was there…it made my skin crawl…because a bed becomes a nitemare when it is infested with bed bugs…and when she wakes up with a bloody bite mutilated body…it painted a psychic picture of what bed bugs do…
nobugsonme | Jul 14, 2007 | Reply
Warning: spoilers!
James,
She hears a news report about dust mites and says “bed bugs,” so I assumed this was another case where the people making the film did not know about the difference.
Bugalina,
I think it’s a metaphor for something besides bed bugs. I could identify to a degree with the horror of being bitten, but remember, she “feeds” her bug. She puts the soup down for it, and near the end she promises to get a new job so she can feed it better.
And then, the surprise, twist ending…
Bugalina | Jul 14, 2007 | Reply
Do you remember Renfield..the character from Dracula ??? He ate bugs…In the end she survives and the bug doesn’t….I agree that the films main “plot” wasn’t bed bug driven…but..maybe, without realizing it, the film touched upon the hellish experience of a bug living in your bed and violating your body…..I would do anything to get the bugs out of my bed…even if it meant chewing them to death…Survival of the fittest !!!
nobugsonme | Jul 15, 2007 | Reply
Eeeewwwwwww!
Yeah, I get you.
But ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!