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Bugs: A Trilogy—A Malevolent Infestation of the Self — Film Review
Body Horror. Nature’s fiends turn the human body into prime real estate for infestation.
One of the principal terrors of the Body Horror genre is the illusion of normalcy.
Long before the main protagonist is confronted with a malevolent infestation of the bug or parasite kind, they are all but blissfully unaware of the changes taking place within (i.e. Seth Brundle’s gradual transformation and eventual decay in 1986’s The Fly) and without (i.e. The hostile takeover of mankind in 1978’s The Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
In Bugs: A Trilogy, a three part anthology of short films about the creatures that lurk in the unseen crevices between stoves, cracks in the wall and even in the recesses of your gut, it’s that perception of normalcy that camouflages the underlying threat to their wellbeing.
Directed by Simone Kisiel, a NYC-based filmmaker who won Best Director at the Women in Horror Film Festival 2018, and is also the cofounder of Magic Dog Productions, the film is a discomforting meditation on the role we play as unreliable narrators in our own lives.
The truth is that we’d all like to think we know what good health looks and feels like. But often times, we don’t know something’s wrong until it’s too late.
