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Bug(Movie, 1975)

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| 1h 39min | Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery
BugRating: 2.8/5 (with 3737 votes)
Bug is a 1975 American horror film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by William Castle and Thomas Page, from Page's novel The Hephaestus Plague (1973). Shot in Panavision, it was the last film Castle was involved in before his death in 1977. The film starred Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles and Richard Gilliland. The film initially depicts a new insect species, which faces extinction. A widowed scientist crossbreeds the species with cockroaches, creating a sentient hybrid species of insects. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Bug

Sitges Film Festival Best Special Effects Award

About Bug

An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: California
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 10 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/06/1975
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Producer: William Castle
Screenwriter: William Castle
Director of Photography: Michel Hugo
Composer: Charles Fox
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Les insectes de feu"
Revenue: 3,602,023 USD

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Other movies with this title: Bug (US, 2002), Bug (FR, 2003), Bug (DE/US, 2006), Bug (UA, 2015), Bug (US, 2017), Bug (FR, 2018), Bug (US, 2022), Bug (US, 2023)

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