Hate Mail - Bug

Rated R

No Stars

A lonely waitress Agnes (Ashley Judd) has taken residence in a cheap motel after escaping her abusive ex-husband Jerry Goss (Harry Connick Jr.). When her coworker and only friend brings a drifter Peter Evans (Michael Shannon) to visit her, they begin a tentative romance. Soon after Peter begins to finds bugs in their bed, and discloses that he is an escaped soldier who suffered experiments by the army and he is presently infested. Agnes begins to feel the same symptoms and the couple withdraws into their own lives of paranoia and plague.

This movie lacks the only thing that would have made it worth watching: ambiguity. The story would have been far more intriguing if you didn’t know whether or not the bugs were real or a hallucination.

Without the necessary mystery, this movie just becomes a sad and slightly disgusting show of two people supporting each others delusions. They simple spiral downward into a world of self-mutilation, and paired with the most awkward sex scene I’ve ever seen on film, this movie gets the award for the worst movie I've seen this year.