A small-town loner's fascination with the new kid in town leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
Bugcrush (2006)
A small-town loner’s fascination with the new kid in town leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
Bugcrush is a short story on film. It details such flowery ideals as infatuation, carnal lust, and sexual naiveté. The work flows on the screen like a poem, skipping along at a deliberate, desperate pace and keeping the audience’s ears tuned in to each subtle nuance and inflection it carries in its message. Bugcrush is also a trip to hell. It wanders down the road less traveled, taking you back to the moments in your life where you could had done something different and taken that chance, and then shows you how it could have gone terribly awry. But what just levels anyone who watches the film is the ripe tension, the imposing feeling of unease that permeates so much of the screen.
The action takes place in a small town that seems to be abandoned. Ben, who has just moved in and is a new student at school, meets Grant. The attraction but also the discomfort that raises the sexual tension turns into a companionship with a sinister end. Bugcrush is a short horror film that manages to keep us tense and uneasy until the last minute of the film. The very end of the film is not defined, leaving the viewers with the possibility to interpret for themselves what really happened.
