Bug

Directed by William Friedkin | 102 minutes | MA 15+ | Australian Theatrical Premiere

8.30pm, Thursday, 1st February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

Two fractured people hole up in a rundown hotel, in this dark, minimalist thriller from William Friedkin.

Having recently escaped her abusive ex-husband, Agnes (Ashley Judd), a lonely waitress with a tragic past, begins a tender romance with Peter (Michael Shannon), a peculiar paranoiac drifter. When they hole up in a spooky, rundown Oklahoma motel room, their relationship starts to break down, as bugs begin to infest their room. Premiering at Cannes 2006 (Directors' Fortnight), this audacious, shocking late career masterpiece from William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) hits the big screen in Australia for the first time at Obsessions.

"Lean, direct, unrelenting... achieve[s] a kind of manic intensity that's frightening not just in itself but because you fear for the actors." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Country: USA
Year: 2006
Language: English