Ashley Judd

Michael Shannon

Harry Connick Jr.

Lynn Collins

Brían F. O'Byrne

Neil Bergeron

Bob Neill

William Friedkin

Tracy Letts

Kimberly C. Anderson

Michael Burns

Gary Huckabay

Michael Ohoven

Malcolm Petal

Andreas Schardt

Jim Seibel

Holly Wiersma

Brian Tyler

Michael Grady

Darrin Navarro

Bonnie Timmermann

Franco-Giacomo Carbone

Frank J. Zito III

Caleb Guillotte

David K. Nami

Robert Vazquez

Stephen Vincent

Dianne Kennedy

Pamela Waggoner

Jillian Amburgey

Beth Miller

Patrick Melville

Brad Wilder

Steve Boeddeker

Jon Kuyper

Peggy A. Schnitzer

Jeffrey Haupt

Jay Faires

Michael Salven

Steve Lonano

Barry Bedig

Anthony Friedkin

Ruby C. Haupt

Mike Karasick

Gilly Charbonnet

Timothy A. Wonsik

Christien Tinsley

Michelle Rolland

Serj Tankian

Ronald Eng

Catherine Rowe

Sean Rowe

Aaron Levy

Terry Hager

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Possession has been a lifelong preoccupation for William Friedkin. He’s addressed it head-on as both fiction and fact, but Bug sees him take a more oblique route. Here’s the story of a man so thoroughly possessed by paranoia that his delusions are contagious. One demon leaves one body to enter another, but an obsession is Legion.

Every Michael Shannon performance is arguably his best, but this is a film tailor-made for his fascinating idiosyncrasies. Aphid and spastic, his body language stops short of actually turning into a freaking insect.

Ashley Judd, however, has a more challenging role, because not only does she have to sell the transition from sane to crazy, but then she has to catch up with Shannon, go toe-to-toe with him, match his manic intensity — and I’ll be damned if she doesn’t; Judd digs deep and reaches a place of utter darkness and desperation. She stares right into the abyss and doesn’t flinch.

Everybody is in point, though; Friedkin and screenwriter Tracy Letts, pull off the rare double-turn (to use wrestling terminology). Harry Connick Jr., who plays Judd’s character’s abusive ex, is all brawn and no brains, while Shannon starts out helpless and meek (his patented, infallible calm-before-the-storm routine); we begin to dread the seemingly inevitable moment when Connick beats Shannon within an inch of his life, only to end up wishing that the former would slap some sense into the latter.

The only problem with this film is that it builds so much momentum it just can’t help crashing and burning. It’s so climactic that it actually becomes anticlimactic. There’s no resolution, no catharsis. For all its shock and awe, The Exorcist allows itself a hopeful, optimistic coda; Bug lacks such an escape valve. This time, the Devil wins.

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