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Bug (2007)

★ 6.1 · 608 ratings on TMDB

First they send in their drone... then they find their queen.

Bug poster★ 6.1

In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

DirectorWilliam Friedkin
CastAshley Judd, Bob Neill, Brían F. O'Byrne, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins, Michael Shannon
GenresDrama, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Bug keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing paranoia, conspiracy, isolation, mentalillness.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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