Praga Infernal

Título original: Bug

1975
PG
1 h 39 min

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An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town.

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Um terremoto liberta uma espécie de barata mutante que tem a habilidade de criar fogo, o que leva uma pequena cidade ao caos. Estudos realizados por cientistas revelam um plano cujas consequ... Ler tudoUm terremoto liberta uma espécie de barata mutante que tem a habilidade de criar fogo, o que leva uma pequena cidade ao caos. Estudos realizados por cientistas revelam um plano cujas consequências são ainda maiores.Um terremoto liberta uma espécie de barata mutante que tem a habilidade de criar fogo, o que leva uma pequena cidade ao caos. Estudos realizados por cientistas revelam um plano cujas consequências são ainda maiores.

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Curiosidades
The set used for the Parmiter home, (where Joanna Miles's character has her head set ablaze by a "bug"), was the same set at Paramount Studios in Hollywood as the one used for the interiors of the Brady home in the ABC television series, A Família Brady (1969). Due to very poor ratings, being massacred by Sanford and Son (1972), the series had been canceled in 1974, a few months before filming on this film began. Since this film's release in 1975, "The Brady Bunch" became a ubiquitous hit in syndication, and the set has become easily recognizable to several generations of classic TV watchers, even though the set was altered for use in this film.

Erros de gravação
When Parmiter finds the dead body in the shed its still daylight. He then runs into the house and is in there no longer than a minute and when he emerges its pitch black.

Conexões
Featured in Terror in the Aisles (1984)

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7/10

Bug, you light up my wife

Loosely based on the novel "The Hephaestus Plague" about a strain of self igniting cockroach that is unleashed on a rural town following an earthquake. Local professor (Bradford Dillman) must learn more about the bugs in an attempt to stop the path of destruction, but finds himself aiding their evolution into unassailable marauders.

Interestingly handled thriller, produced by horror royalty in William Castle focuses on the mental disintegration of the lead character, following the death of his spouse. His obsessive determination to destroy the bugs leads him to the brink of insanity, while the bugs conversely enhance their intelligence through the reinforcement gained in his experiments. Where most of the cast (Gilliland, Vint, Jackson, Miles) fade out after the first half, Fudge and McCormack come into focus in the second half, as they attempt to coax Dillman out of his self imposed isolation.

The concept that mankind is the subject of the experiment and ultimately the more vulnerable of the two species, is canvassed abundantly in the second half of the film and while engaging, slows the pace considerably. Overall, I found "Bug" an entertaining tale that improved with each subsequent viewing and an ideal swansong for horror maestro Castle.