Bug Bites starts off innocuous enough, if a little disturbing: a young woman with an alarming amount of bug bites decides to call an exterminator to make sure she doesn’t have a dreaded bed bug infestation. From there, the short dives into some extreme body horror… then injects an unexpected tidal wave of surreal humour.
Check it out, but maybe not while you’re eating!
The tone shifts alone are notable, but the seemingly endless sequence where everybody just whips their heads around staring at each other really makes you realise Bed Bug is a horror film with two things on its mind: grossing you the hell out, and making you echo its protagonist’s genuinely baffled shriek of “WTF?” Those car-insurance robocalls will never sound the same way again.
Directed by Daniel DelPurgatorio, who is also co-credited with special make-up effects and visual effects, and shared online by Alter, Bug Bites is as perfectly weird as it needs to be, and will 100% make your skin crawl in the process.
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