BUG



Bug, if I'm not mistaken, was the last film Ashley Judd (who's a member of The Judds clan) starred in, and, I've got to tell you, it's one creepy-ass flick! It's based on a play of the same name, and it shows. Anyway, in the flick, Ashley Judd plays a woman living in a rundown motel as she's trying to run away from her abusive husband played by singer/actor Harry Connick, Jr. While at the hotel, she comes across this creepy-ass drifter played by rather eccentric actor Michael Shannon who also starred in the play version of this flick. Anyway, during the course of the film, both Ashley and Michael's characters delve further and further into madness as Michael's drifter character convinces Ashley's increasingly unhinged character how he had these "experiments" conducted on him while he served in the military and that's why his body is "infested" with bugs, a delusion which increases when the hotel room actually does become infested with--you guessed it!--bugs. And things go from bad to worse when Connick's abusive character enters the picture and it seems to trigger something within Ashley's character and she becomes convinced, with Michael's character's help, that his supposed military experiments were somehow "linked" to her son's disappearance some years before. Then this rather weird-ass doctor shows up and tells her that said drifter is actually a--surprise! surprise!--mental patient who needs serious help. Have you got all of this thus far? I won't tell you how this crazy-ass flick ends except to say that, if you watch the credits, certain scenes make you question whether or not the "ending" actually happened or if it was all another delusion. Best line of the flick was when Ashley holds up her arms and cries out, "I am the queen mother bug!" Best scene is--of course!--the "love" scene between her and Shannon where Ashley once again gives moviegoers a look at her goodies (which she's apparently NOT afraid of showing!)! Mama & Sister Judd must really be proud!