Bug!

 

BUG-1975-In a small town an earthquake unleashes cockroach like bugs that can start fires. A bug doc James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman) and student Gerald Methbaum (Richard Gilliland) investigate.They get help from a chemist Mark Ross (Alan Fudge). Most of the invaders die from air pressure but Parmiter keeps one specimen alive. When she wife (Joanna Miles) is killed she goes a little crazy and breeds the remaining bug with everyday roaches and creates a fast breeding bunch of intelligent flying roaches (worse than before). They kill Ross' wife (Patty McCormack) and terrorize Parmiter and set him on fire. He falls into a fissure and the flying bugs seem to follow him. Also with Jesse Vint and Frederic Brown. 

BUG's screenplay was co-written by the legendary William Castle (who also produced) and Thomas Page who wrote the novel the movie is based on. French born director Jeannot Szwarc mostly worked on TV series (NIGHT GALLERY; KOJAK) and made for TV movies. BUG was a rare theatrical release but in the early '80's he made several high profile feature films (JAWS 2; SOMEWHERE IN TIME; SUPERGIRL; SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE). BUG is genuinely creepy and the story is a little more unusual than most.

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Bugs In Japan

WAR OF THE INSECTS-(GENOCIDE)-1968-A huge swarm of insects causes a plane carrying a hydrogen bomb to crash. Jozi, a philandering jerk who tells his wife Ukari he’s out collecting insect samples when he’s really cheating with Annabelle (Kathy Horan), a white woman who loves insects and hates humans. Jozi is accused of killing 3 pilots who had survived the plane crash. Dr. Nagumo tries to help him. A coroner says the men were bitten to death by insects but the rude Fascistic American commanding officer disagrees. When Jozi escapes the police with the help of Yukari (she’s pregnant) he hides out with Annabelle who it turns out is a Nazi concentration camp survivor and a spy who uses bees to get the lone survivor pilot Charly to talk. Annabelle wants to spread poison insects all over the world and wipe out mankind. After Jozi and Yukari escape Annabelle's henchmen (along with a lady MD) they help Nagumo with an experiment. He wants to be bitten by one of the deadly bugs to feel it's effects! He has a weird psychedelic vision where insects tell him they fear nuclear destruction more than humans. While Jozi and Yukari search for the H-bomb, Annabelle plans her own experiment on Nagumo but when the insects escape she's killed. In the end evil America explodes the lost H bomb and everyone dies except pregnant Yukari. 

Kind of crazy revisionist propaganda sci-fi film from Kazui Nihonmatsu, director of THE X FROM OUTER SPACE.

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